Members book their own tee time from a phone, and the slot they take stops being offered to anybody else the moment they take it. Society and roll-up bookings go in as a block with a last date on them, and the visitor who pays at booking has a time nobody can give away.
Blu LinksBook online
Visitor green fee1st · 08:40 · 18 holes$45.00
Range bay1 hr · bays 1–10$12.00
Member fourball1st · 08:48Book
Next free08:2408:3208:48
Booked online
6:30 AM
From a kitchen, before the shop
Paid at booking
$45.00
The green fee, before the trolley
08:40 on the 1st
Sold once
Eight-minute slots, no doubles
Each of these takes a slot off the person behind the counter and gives it to the member, without letting the same eight minutes go out twice.
Each tee interval is a booking of its own, so once 08:40 has gone it stops being offered. Nobody arrives at the first tee behind somebody who was told the same time by somebody else in the shop.
Your tee sheet on a page of its own, with the day, the interval and what is left. A member picks a time and takes it. The shop phone stops being the only way into the diary at seven on a Sunday.
A Wednesday roll-up or a society’s standing morning books as a series with a last date on it rather than as a permanent claim on the sheet. When the season finishes those times come back without anybody clearing them.
A visitor paying online has a slot; a visitor who has not is an enquiry. Charge the whole fee or hold a deposit, and the time is only held once the payment has gone through, which is what empties a Saturday sheet of names nobody recognises.
A club is not only a tee sheet.
Put the first tee, the ten range bays, the practice ground and the professional’s lesson diary on the same page and each keeps its own hours, its own interval and its own rules.
A member booking an hour on a bay cannot take one that is already out, and a lesson holds the pro and the bay together, so the coach is never booked onto a mat somebody hired ten minutes earlier.
Close the first tee for a medal, a shotgun start or a morning of frost, and those times simply stop being offered. There is no window in which somebody can still take one.
Anybody already booked into a slot you have had to move is told, in a message carrying the new time and a link to it, and can release the slot themselves if it no longer works.
On a Saturday in November that is the difference between one notice and forty phone calls.
Five past seven on a Sunday. The sheet on the counter has three names crossed out and one written in the margin, the phone has been going since half six, and the assistant who took Thursday’s call is not in today. Eight players are on the first tee for 07:12 and four of them were told 07:12 by somebody else.
None of it is written down anywhere afterwards. A society that never confirmed still has Wednesday morning blocked out from last season, the visitor who rang on Friday and was told to call back did not call back, and the sheet says the morning was busy.
Picktime gives every tee interval to one booking and one only, lets members take their own, ends a standing block on the date it should end, and takes the visitor’s green fee when the visitor takes the time.
8Players on the first tee for 07:12
4Green fees that were never taken
Set the first tee as a resource with your interval (eight minutes, ten, twelve) and the hours it is open. Add the range bays and the practice ground the same way, each with hours of its own.
Set how far ahead a member may book and how long a booking runs, so nobody takes a Saturday morning in March. Charge visitors and range hire at the point of booking, and say how late a slot can be released.
The booking page is a link. It goes on the club site behind a Book Now button, in the members’ newsletter, on the noticeboard behind a QR code and in the shop’s email signature.
The busiest hour on a golf club’s phone is the hour nobody is free to answer it.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
A booking lands in the calendar the shop already has open, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so the diary on the counter and the diary on the screen cannot disagree. Green fees and range hire run through PayPal, and through Stripe or Square on the paid plans.
The booking page runs in any phone browser with nothing to install, which matters at six in the morning in a car park. Most golf tee time booking apps want a download before a member can even see whether Saturday is free; this one does not. There are iOS and Android apps for the shop, so the starter can see the next hour without going back inside.
It depends whether you need a full tee-sheet platform or a booking system. A public course selling green fees through the marketplaces wants dedicated tee-sheet software with a till and dynamic pricing behind it. A private club, a nine-hole course or a range that mainly needs members booking their own slot without double-selling it is what Picktime is for, and it is free to start.
As a golfer, the marketplace apps list courses that have chosen to sell through them. As a club, the app your members want is your own booking page. It opens in any phone browser with nothing to install, shows your intervals and your rules, and books straight into your sheet.
For a club, the way that costs least is the one that does not go through a person: a booking page members reach from their phone at any hour, where a slot stops being offered the moment it is taken. The shop phone then handles the calls that genuinely need a human rather than every booking of the week.
Not once the sheet is in Picktime. Each interval is a booking on a resource, so it can only be held once. That is the single thing a paper sheet cannot promise, because two people can write on it in two places on two days.
Yes, on the paid plans, as a recurring series with a last date on it. That is deliberately not the same as blocking the morning out permanently: when the season ends the times come back onto the sheet without anybody remembering to release them.
Yes. Connect a payment provider and take the whole fee or a deposit at the point of booking, so the slot is only held once the money has gone through. A visitor who has paid turns up; a name written down on Friday sometimes does not.
Yes. Bays are resources with their own hours, and a lesson holds the professional and the bay together, so neither can be booked out from under the other. The tee, the bays and the lesson diary all sit on one booking page.
It is a buggy rule rather than a playing one, and it is more often written as the 90-degree rule. Carts stay on the path until they are level with the ball, then turn square onto the fairway, drive straight out and straight back. Courses put it on to keep wear off wet fairways, which is why it comes and goes through the season. If yours switches it on at short notice, the booking confirmation is the one message everybody playing that day has already opened.
Indoor bays Bays hired by the hour, paid for at booking, and a Friday night that sells out.
See golf simulator booking
Pitches and halls Courts, pitches and halls let by the hour, with a club block that ends.
See sports facility scheduling Coaching Private and junior lessons, with the mat held alongside the coach.
See golf lesson bookingFree forever for a single club. No card, no trial clock, and your sheet can be bookable before the weekend.
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