Make decisions based on the
traffic patterns of your golfers
Benefits
Resource Consumption
The GPS Service helps facilities with one of their biggest challenges: maintenance costs:
- Identify areas of high and low golfer traffic on your course
- Improve operational efficiency by prioritizing your maintenance resources on the areas that come into play most for golfers
- Use data to make important decisions that will improve your facility's bottom line
Golfer Satisfaction
Improving golfer satisfaction is a key to increasing rounds and revenue:
- Course conditioning is the most important factor in the playing experience. With the heat map, you can focus on the areas where your golfers hit from the most.
- Smooth pace of play is also crucial for golfer satisfaction. GPS data will help identify delays and bottlenecks.
Renovation Impact
Capital improvements can take your facility to the next level. GPS data can provide insights that can help maximize the return on investment for your next project:
- Convert turfgrass into low-maintenance areas based on areas of low traffic
- Make sure your tees are friendly and appropriate for your golfers
- Improve pace of play
Overview
Where are your golfers going?
Many golf courses are operating with a smaller maintenance staff due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. One way to prioritize these limited resources is to focus on the areas that receive the most golfer traffic and have the greatest impact on golfer satisfaction. Golfer heat maps on the USGA Facility App can tell you exactly where your players are going—and more importantly—where they are not going.
Playing conditions are crucial
Course conditioning is the most important factor in the golfer experience. The USGA GPS Service shows you the traffic patterns of your golfers so you know precisely where you need to allocate more resources in order to provide better playing conditions.
By shifting resources from low-priority areas to the parts of the course that regularly come into play, you can help to make sure your players walk off the course happy with their experience and eager to return for another round.
Easy to use and see data
Simply hand out loggers to your golfers prior to the rounds for several days, being sure to collect them at the end of their rounds. You will then receive a 6-month subscription to the USGA Facility App, where you will access the heat maps as well as other features such as advanced real-time weather and map customization. In addition, you will receive a phone consultation with a USGA agronomist.
Pace of Play
Provide a more enjoyable round for your golfers
Golfers who are happy as they walk off the 18th green are more likely to come back. Research conducted by the USGA indicates that pace of play has a significant impact on golfer satisfaction and revenue. Golfers are willing to pay green fees that are 9 percent higher for a 30-minute reduction in round times. The GPS Service helps improve pace with the following data:
- Measure gap times between groups
- Optimize tee intervals for improved pace
- Identify areas of on-course delays
- Track the intersection between golfers and maintenance staff
- Identify the landing areas for tee shots
- Determine the best places for marshals
USGA Course Consulting Service
Take advantage of our expertise
The GPS Service includes a one-hour phone consultation with a regional agronomist. You can benefit further by working more closely with an expert consultant who can help analyze your data and develop a customized action plan to prioritize resources and improve golfer satisfaction at your facility.
Customer Success
Learn more about the power of data
Steve Jablonowski, Crandon Park
"It was very easy to use. The value of what we paid for to what we received was an invaluable asset. It took out of the conversation any estimate of where we thought golfers were going to be utilizing the facility. Instead, the hard data was right in front of us.”