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Webinar Learnings: How technology and data help leading courses optimize their operations

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Tagmarshal’s expert webinar series presents a fantastic opportunity for operators to learn from leading courses that have found innovative ways to overcome challenges and optimize their operations.

Our more than 600 course partners range from exclusive, high-end private clubs to $50 daily fee courses. What connects them is the desire to use data and technology to help provide an enhanced player experience.

Below are 5 examples from this year’s webinars, showcasing some of the creative ways Tagmarshal’s system is used to transform how a course operates.

1. Baltusrol: Real-time pace alerts via text messages

With Baltusrol’s Upper Course closed for the 2024 season, the Lower Course saw a significant spike in play volume, yet still managed an average round time of 3h57m during the peak period between June and October.

This was done without the use of on-course marshals or player assistants. Instead, Baltusrol’s golf staff have set up Tagmarshal’s system to send text-based alerts to their mobile phones when a group hits a pre-defined Slow Play threshold.

Whoever has the capacity then addresses the problem, going straight to the group that is out of position to offer assistance in getting them back on pace.

This approach ensures smoother course flow and saves labor hours that the golf professionals can redirect towards lessons, interactions with members, managing other staff and completing administrative work.

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There’s nothing better than walking into the office and knowing exactly what’s happening on your golf course. It’s fantastic knowledge and peace of mind.

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Ryan Fountaine, PGA

Director of Golf

Baltusrol Golf Club

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2. Gold Canyon: Generating additional revenue via advertising on 2Way screens

With a round of golf at Arizona’s renowned Gold Canyon Golf Resort taking around 4h15m, the course has a captive, high-income audience that is of interest to advertisers. 

To tap into this and generate revenue, Gold Canyon serves advertising on its 2Way cart screens at strategic locations on the course, which are triggered via GPS.

This helps offset the cost of the system, meaning that all of the pace management and efficiency wins the 2Way screens offer are essentially heavily discounted.

At courses where operators may not have enough time or resources to sell their own advertising, Tagmarshal Media, a specialist division focused on media sales management, will assist.

Courses can choose from a fully managed, jointly managed or self-managed revenue model, depending on how much help they need to sell their ad inventory.

3. Premier Golf: Helping management groups oversee their entire operation

Washington-based Premier Golf, which falls under the Troon Golf umbrella, utilizes Tagmarshal’s multi-course operator (MCO) reporting to gain oversight across all of their facilities.

The innovative, data-driven and consolidated reporting gives Premier Golf a high-level view across more than 10 facilities, collecting key data insights and metrics.

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These include:

  • A monthly single overview of rounds tracked, round times, the percentage of rounds on pace and the number of player assistant notes entered into the system.
  • System engagement tracking of user interactions to ensure each course under Premier Golf’s umbrella is fully utilizing Tagmarshal’s golf cart GPS systems.
  • A monthly tracking dashboard, either by course or on a group level, which highlights key performance indicators.

Using the data gathered, Premier Golf can track the impact of added tee sheet capacity on player experience, show the effect of team engagement across facilities and create a basis to charge premium rates.

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Using the accurate data, we eliminated 75% of complaints. This technology will make you money and we’re a perfect example of that. We have the data now and revenue is up.

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Mike Fosnick, PGA

Director of Operations

Troon Golf

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4. Foothills GC: Using data to implement variable goal times

Foothills Golf Course, a daily fee course in Colorado that deals with a high play volume, uses Tagmarshal’s data to identify periods of the day, and days of the week, where the average round time is consistently quicker.

While the course’s default goal time is 4h20m, earlier tee times often come in well below that. Foothills GC has now set variable goal times for different periods of the day.

During the ‘early wave,’ defined as between 6AM and 8AM, the goal time has dropped to 4 hours. For the ‘2nd early wave’ between 8AM and 9AM, the goal time is set to 4h10m. 

With these quicker goal times, gap intervals during these periods can be reduced, creating additional tee sheet capacity and an immediate bottom-line boost.

5. Cascade Hills: Building data-rich member profiles

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Cascade Hills, a premier private club in Western Michigan, benefits greatly from built-out member profiles with complete round and pace histories.

This data allows for more effective tee sheet management and oversight, as staff can quickly pull up a member’s profile and see the total number of rounds they have played, broken down into on pace, delayed, delayer (behind pace and other groups were impacted) and slow (behind pace but other groups were not impacted).

When they see a member about to tee off with a history of falling out of position early on, they can ensure they dedicate extra attention to offering support to the group in question. Should the problem with a member’s pace continue, the club has steps in place to escalate the matter, relying on the data gathered to illustrate why further action is necessary.

Using proactive pace management techniques, with a clear idea of which members require additional support, Cascade Hills reduced average round times this season to 3h47m, 18 minutes below the goal time.

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The member profiles allow us to see when on the tee sheet our slower players are coming. With data to point to, we can show that we are not picking on anyone, but rather working on providing the best possible player experience for all of our members.

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Adrian Jolliffe, PGA

Director of Golf

Cascade Hills CC

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Conclusion

Tagmarshal’s industry-leading analytics and reporting enable operators to make decisions with a deeper understanding of their course’s pace, capacity and other custom metrics.

Managing pace and flow effectively has a positive impact on the player experience and drives the economic engine of the course, empowering operators to increase their capacity and revenue

Ultimately, as our webinar guests have shown, Tagmarshal’s system can be used effectively across all course types, leading to an optimized operation.

ABOUT TAGMARSHAL

Tagmarshal, the market leader in on-course optimization technology, provides courses with full, real-time operational oversight and reporting, giving golf operators the tools to manage pace and flow of play effectively, resulting in enhanced player experiences, increased efficiency through automation, and additional revenue generation.

Tagmarshal’s technology has collected over 10 billion data points from more than 75 million rounds of golf and has relationships with in excess of 600 partners, including Hazeltine, Whistling Straits, Baltusrol, Fieldstone, Bandon Dunes, Serenoa and Erin Hills.

Tagmarshal partners with several golf management groups, private, daily fee, public and resort courses, including 40 of the Top 100 US courses, as well as many $40-$60 green fee courses, which are seeing excellent results using the system.

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