The round gets sold before the tee sheet ever opens.
A golfer decides where to play in the time it takes to scroll one phone screen. Your tee sheet, POS, and member system run the operation. Kootenay Made builds the public website that earns the booking first, the course story, the rates, the trust, the events, and the membership pitch, then hands the golfer cleanly to the booking engine you already run.
Built for public and semi-private courses, destination and resort golf, municipal courses, and member clubs that juggle tee times, memberships, leagues, the pro shop, food and beverage, weddings, and tournaments, and want all of it to feel like one premium place instead of five disconnected logins.
This category lives or dies on trust, not features.
Kootenay Made treats the course website as a destination sales system, not a brochure with a booking button. We build the course story, hole-by-hole detail, honest rate and condition clarity, visitor planning, the membership and league pitch, the tournament and wedding inquiry path, dining, and seasonal campaigns, all engineered for mobile and all feeding the tee sheet, member system, and inbox you already run. The software keeps the operation honest. The website makes a stranger choose you over the course twenty minutes down the highway.
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Golf is bought as a daydream
Before anyone compares green fees, they picture the view off the first tee, the patio after, the foursome text thread, the trip. If the site does not let them feel the round, the rate grid never gets a chance.
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Friction is where the booking dies
Rates by day and time, twilight pricing, cart and rental cost, dress code, course conditions, weather, directions, and the food situation all need to be obvious on a phone in seconds. Every unanswered question is a reason to book elsewhere.
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Membership is belonging, not access
A prospective member is buying a summer, a routine, a club, a status. The page has to sell the community and the identity, then make the application and renewal feel effortless and worth it.
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Trust is the silent filter
A secure checkout, a clear refund and weather policy, honest pricing with tax shown, and a real privacy stance decide whether a first-time visitor types in a card number. Sloppy here and the booking quietly evaporates.
Your tee sheet and club management software does the plumbing. KMD wins the decision.
The software runs the engine. It does not win the decision. A booking module dropped into a stock template makes every course look interchangeable, and golf is never bought on a grid of times alone.
Platforms like Lightspeed Golf, Chronogolf, foreUP, Teesnap, and Club Prophet own the back office: live availability, dynamic rates, member accounts, POS, food and beverage, gift cards, and reporting. They are very good at the operation. They are not built to make a stranger fall for your course.
What the category tool covers
- Live tee-time availability and online reservations
- Member accounts, dues, and league administration
- Dynamic green-fee pricing and prepaid bookings
- POS, pro shop, food and beverage, and gift cards
- Email, SMS, and mobile app modules
A platform shaped around how this business actually wins.
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Course story and hole-by-hole pages
Photography, flyovers, yardages, and strategy that let a golfer feel the course before they arrive, the single thing a stock booking template can never do.
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Tee times, rates, and visitor confidence
Green fees by season and time of day, twilight and cart pricing, rentals, dress code, conditions, directions, and dining answered up front, then a clean handoff to your live tee sheet.
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Memberships and leagues that sell
Categories, benefits, social proof, pricing, and an application and renewal path that frames membership as belonging, with clear terms so there are no surprises at signup.
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Tournaments, weddings, and corporate events
High-intent inquiry funnels for shotgun tournaments, fundraisers, corporate outings, weddings, and banquets, the bookings that carry a course’s margin, captured cleanly instead of lost in voicemail.
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Pro shop, dining, and gift cards
Merchandise highlights, restaurant and patio hours, menus, and gift-card paths that turn the clubhouse into a year-round revenue line, not just a summer afterthought.
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Seasonal campaigns and email capture
Opening day, season passes, league nights, gift cards, lessons, and shoulder-season offers built as repeatable campaigns, feeding a consent-based email list you actually own.
The standard that comes with every Empire build.
- Premium, mobile-first course homepage
- Tee-time and rate-clarity path into your booking engine
- Membership, league, and renewal pages
- Tournament, wedding, and corporate event inquiry funnels
- Dining, pro shop, gift-card, and visitor pages
- Hole-by-hole content and seasonal golf SEO
- Secure forms, privacy policy, and CASL-ready email capture
- Accessibility, performance, and analytics baked in
The rules, risks, and trust signals this industry cannot skip.
A site in this category is judged on more than looks. These are the obligations and reassurances I build in by default, so the business stays credible and protected.
PCI DSS on every payment path
Tee-time deposits, prepaid rounds, membership dues, and gift cards all touch cardholder data. We keep payment capture inside your PCI DSS compliant tee-sheet or processor and use hosted or tokenized checkout, so card numbers never sit on the website and your liability stays contained.
CASL consent for member and golfer email
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation requires real consent before commercial email. The old club implied-consent transition window has long closed, so we build forms that capture and log express consent, identify the sender, and include a working unsubscribe in every send, keeping your list clean and defensible.
PIPEDA-ready privacy and data handling
Collecting names, emails, handicaps, and payment details puts you under PIPEDA. We ship a plain-language privacy policy, collect only what a purpose actually needs, and make consent meaningful, so members and visitors know what you hold and why.
Accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA
The Accessible British Columbia Act pushes organizations toward removing digital barriers, and WCAG 2.1 AA is the recognized Canadian benchmark. We build to it: keyboard navigation, contrast, labelled forms, and alt text, so the booking and membership paths work for everyone and read as a credible club.
Honest pricing, tax, and gift-card terms
BC consumer rules prohibit expiry dates on most gift cards and require clear disclosure, and golfers expect to see what a round truly costs. We present rates, cart fees, and taxes transparently and state gift-card and refund terms plainly, so checkout feels trustworthy rather than bait-and-switch.
Liquor and event licensing presented correctly
Clubhouse service runs under a liquor primary licence and one-off functions may need a Special Event Permit from BC’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch. We give events and weddings clean pages that set licensing, capacity, and policy expectations up front, so the inquiry arrives qualified.
See the Larch Hollow Golf Club concept in the wild.
Larch Hollow Golf Club is the fictional destination-course build that proves the system end to end: tee-time paths, rate clarity, hole-by-hole course story, visitor planning, stay-and-play content, tournaments, dining, memberships, and lessons, all structured for the phone in a golfer’s hand on the first tap.
- 41 public sitemap URLs
- Tee-time and rate-clarity paths
- Events, dining, lessons, and membership routes
- Visitor planning and stay-and-play content
- Mobile-first course decision structure
- Fictional details used to keep the showcase clean and verifiable
Larch Hollow Golf Club is a fictional concept build created to demonstrate the category. No real course affiliation, booking results, visitor outcomes, or operating performance should be implied.
Where the upgrade actually pays off.
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Beat the interchangeable software template with destination-grade presentation that makes the choice feel obvious.
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Turn opening day, tournaments, leagues, patios, gift cards, and lessons into repeatable seasonal campaigns instead of one-off scrambles.
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Connect cleanly to the tee sheet and member system without letting the software dictate your brand or your pricing story.
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Capture high-margin wedding, tournament, and corporate inquiries with dedicated funnels rather than burying them in a generic contact form.
Build the site this category actually deserves.
Built for public and semi-private courses, destination and resort golf, municipal courses, and member clubs that juggle tee times, memberships, leagues, the pro shop, food and beverage, weddings, and tournaments, and want all of it to feel like one premium place instead of five disconnected logins.
What owners in this field ask first.
Can this connect to our tee-sheet and booking software?+
Yes. We replace the public website layer and route cleanly into the tee sheet or booking engine you already run, Lightspeed Golf, Chronogolf, foreUP, Teesnap, Club Prophet, or similar, so live availability, dynamic rates, and reservations stay exactly where they are. You keep your operation and get a front door that finally matches the course.
Is this only for private member clubs?+
No. Public, semi-private, municipal, destination, and resort courses all benefit, often more, because they live or die on attracting golfers who have never set foot on the property. The website sells the experience before the rate grid ever loads.
How is this better than the website that came with our software?+
Software templates are built for operations, not persuasion, and they make every course look the same. We handle positioning, course story, mobile flow, membership and event funnels, seasonal SEO, and conversion, then hand off to the booking tools you already use. The software runs the round. We win the decision to play it.
Are online tee-time and membership payments handled securely?+
Yes. We keep card capture inside your PCI DSS compliant processor or tee sheet using hosted or tokenized checkout, so card numbers never live on the website. That protects golfers, contains your liability, and makes checkout feel safe enough that first-time visitors actually book.
Will the site handle email consent properly under Canadian law?+
Yes. Under CASL you need real, logged consent before commercial email, and the old club transition window has closed. We build sign-up forms that capture express consent, identify your club as sender, and include a working unsubscribe, so your seasonal campaigns reach members and prospects without putting the club at risk.
Can we run our own seasonal campaigns and content after launch?+
Yes. Opening day, season passes, tournaments, league nights, lessons, and gift-card pushes are built as repeatable patterns you can update, with an editing setup that does not require a developer for routine changes. You own the site and the email list it feeds.
Do you build the events, wedding, and tournament side too?+
Yes. Weddings, corporate outings, fundraisers, and tournaments carry serious margin, so they get dedicated pages and qualified inquiry funnels, with licensing, capacity, and policy set up front. We also present liquor and Special Event Permit expectations clearly so the inquiries that arrive are ready to talk.
Is the site accessible and fast on mobile?+
Yes. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA, the recognized Canadian benchmark and the direction the Accessible British Columbia Act is pushing, and we optimize for the phone, where almost every tee-time decision is now made. Accessible, fast, and credible is the baseline, not an upsell.