Golfer Collective is the next evolution of a discount card.
We’re creating a network of partner courses that are using collective marketing benefits to drive traffic into hard to market slots – expiring tee times.
From members
From partner courses
Years in the business
gaps filled every year
Remember, our primary goal is to protect your brand so we encourage you to use restrictions in order to limit your offer to where you need results. That might be 24 hour advanced booking and limited to Mondays after 12pm or no limit booking 7 days a week. It's wherever you want results.
Tighter restrictions can limit traffic but it protects your brand and yields.
This is a very common question and concern for both courses and golfers. How many times can an offer be redeemed?
Because of the nature of our platform, our default is unlimited because we want to continually drive results into the time frames you need whether or not it's accomplished by the same golfer over and over. This creates a long term affect where value golfers are pushed into slots you need filled - ie, turning them into an effective yield management crowd.
However, you're welcome to limit the number of uses. Just add it as a restriction.
Once we have our restrictions set, it's time to figure out an offer to drive traffic into our desired time frames. First, consider the opportunity cost. If your tee time expires at $0, what would you wish you had sold it for?
Next consider the restrictions. If you have broad restrictions like 7 day advanced booking and good anytime then we suggest smaller savings. If you're using 24 hour advanced booking on weekdays only, we suggest a larger discount to motivate action.
We will say that the most successful offers are tighter restrictions + bigger savings.
Of course, there are plenty of other factors to consider like audience size, demographics, or even the season. Luckily, your offer isn't set in stone and you can change it anytime throughout the year.
Carts are another opportunity for win-win.
Including them can boost the effectiveness of your offer and keep your pace of play where you want it.
90% of our partner courses include them.
This is the savings off your retail rates for greens fees and cart fees, if applicable.
Not currently a partner course
The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort in Harbor Springs, Michigan, is a renowned golf course designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones Sr. Established in 1966, this par 72 course stretches 7,143 yards from the back tees, offering a challenging yet enjoyable experience for golfers of all skill levels. With its meticulously maintained bent grass fairways and greens, The Heather provides excellent playing conditions throughout the season. Picturesque views of the surrounding wildlife and scenery enhance the golfing experience, making it a true delight for nature enthusiasts. Practice facilities, including a driving range and areas for pitching, chipping, and putting, are available to help golfers refine their skills before embarking on the course. The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort seamlessly blends quality design, scenic beauty, and accessibility, ensuring an unforgettable golfing adventure for players of varying abilities.
The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort has garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews from golfers who have experienced its exceptional offerings. Players have consistently lauded the course's excellent conditions and well-designed layout, along with the friendly and welcoming staff. One reviewer described The Heather as "stout mid-century golf at its near-finest," highlighting its enjoyable walkable routing and diverse settings that encompass meadows, wetlands, and parklands. The opportunity to witness the sunrise over Northern Michigan while preparing for a round across the street was also mentioned as a memorable highlight. Another golfer commended the course's maintenance and appreciated the challenging yet enjoyable layout, particularly hole 18 with its strategically placed pond guarding the green. A common sentiment among reviewers is that The Heather provides a fun and memorable round of golf, with many recommending it to fellow golfers visiting the Petoskey or Bay Harbor area. These positive reviews collectively paint a picture of The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort as an exceptional golfing destination that delivers an outstanding experience.
Golfer Collectives users have consistently rated The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort as a course that offers exceptional value for golfers. Reviewers have praised the course's excellent conditions, challenging layout, and friendly staff. One golfer described The Heather as providing "stout mid-century golf at its near-finest," emphasizing its enjoyable walkable routing and diverse settings. Another reviewer mentioned how well-maintained the course was and appreciated its challenging yet enjoyable layout, particularly hole 18 with its pond guarding the green. Reviewers agree that playing The Heather offers a fun and memorable round of golf, with many recommending it to others visiting Petoskey or Bay Harbor area. These positive reviews collectively suggest that The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort provides an exceptional value for golfers seeking high-quality courses in Northern Michigan's beautiful surroundings.
*Our information is based on reviews and descriptions from across the internet
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown M: 75.4/147 | 383 | 397 | 403 | 202 | 560 | 161 | 406 | 450 | 617 | 3579 | 416 | 550 | 174 | 419 | 418 | 506 | 196 | 403 | 482 | 3564 | 7143 |
| Purple M: 72.7/143 | 373 | 376 | 373 | 182 | 539 | 151 | 371 | 387 | 561 | 3313 | 384 | 510 | 170 | 414 | 385 | 482 | 181 | 374 | 434 | 3334 | 6647 |
| Orange M: 70.3/139 | 342 | 362 | 341 | 162 | 467 | 139 | 353 | 363 | 521 | 3050 | 379 | 496 | 153 | 386 | 354 | 466 | 162 | 346 | 415 | 3157 | 6207 |
| Blue M: 69.4/135 W: 75.4/140 | 342 | 322 | 341 | 133 | 467 | 139 | 353 | 363 | 521 | 2981 | 350 | 496 | 130 | 364 | 339 | 466 | 149 | 346 | 392 | 3032 | 6013 |
| Green M: 68.3/130 W: 73.9/137 | 328 | 322 | 325 | 133 | 424 | 129 | 333 | 338 | 482 | 2814 | 350 | 448 | 130 | 364 | 339 | 447 | 149 | 310 | 392 | 2929 | 5743 |
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | 72 | 7143 yards | 75.4 | 147 |
| Purple | 72 | 6647 yards | 72.7 | 143 |
| Orange | 72 | 6207 yards | 70.3 | 139 |
| Blue | 72 | 6013 yards | 69.4 | 135 |
| Blue (W) | 72 | 6013 yards | 75.4 | 140 |
**We have not verified the course website. Many links are based on google search results**
Our partner courses have come to love, enjoy, and look forward to their staff memberships each year.
We offer free memberships for your employees to use at other partner courses for access to the same perks available to our paying members. Your staff's cards will carry your courses' name and their name so they're identified as industry insiders.New in 2022: an unofficial industry rate program. At the request of several partner courses, we're creating a section in our listings for insider rates that are only visible and available to registered staff members. Participation by your course is optionalYour staff memberships will stay active as long as your course remains active on the platformOur members call your proshop and identify themselves as Golfer Collective members. When paying their greens fees, they show their membership card to your staff.
You can restrict it to a 1 time offer or allow our members to redeem it as many times as they'd like.
Most of our partner courses allow for unlimited redemption because the special offer restrictions are so beneficial yields.
We don't charge our partner courses to participate on Golfer Collective platform.
Our revenue comes from selling memberships to golfers to access the special offers.
We simply want you to have the systems in place to reduce $0 tee times, even if they are rare for you.
Our platform allows you to create offers that increase demand during times that you need it, even if it's as small of a window as after 2pm on Mondays.
From what we've seen, it's the time frame when chances of bookings drop drastically and the expected value of a tee time rapidly approaches $0. For most courses, it's the last 24 hours before a tee time.
24 hours if our default but you're welcome to extend your offer out to meet the needs of your course. For example, a more rural course may want to use 72 hours while a resort near a city may want to use 24 hours
Great question and you absolutely can!
It's easy enough to build out an audience of value golfers. From what we've heard from our partner courses, the more difficult and time consuming part is utilizing them without damaging your brand.
Instead of adding another set of processes to your to do list, you can leverage Golfer Collective and our process to increase your yields for free.
If your course is consistently booked with foursomes and zero gaps, we congratulate you!
Golfer Collective is a platform that let's you put systems in place to reduce $0 tee times, even if they are rare for you.