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Castlegar, BC. Serving the Kootenays and beyond.Larch Hollow Golf Club
A course site that changes with the season and never needs editing to stay true.
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Pages and routes
18
Hole pages
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Homepage sections, down from 13
499 KB
Homepage first view on a phone, down from 4.8 MB
Typed-in hours are right in July and wrong by November.
Typed-in hours go stale.
An open sign typed into a page is right in season and wrong the rest of the year. A golfer who drives out on the strength of it does not come back.
And it costs the businessSomebody has to remember to edit the site every spring and every fall. When nobody does, the Pro Shop line answers the same question all winter.
Two book buttons that do two different things.
When one book button goes to a page and another opens a drawer, golfers lose their place, and some give up before they pick a time.
And it costs the businessEvery stalled booking turns into a phone call during check-ins, or a round booked at the course down the highway.
Star ratings with nothing behind them.
A star rating with no reviews behind it is the first thing a sharp general manager or golfer notices. It makes the rest of the page harder to believe.
And it costs the businessThe club gives up the one advantage a local course has, which is that golfers can check what it says.
Every hour on the site comes from one clock.
One clock for every hour.
Hours, open or closed, the twilight start and the off-season are worked out from one source. No hour is typed into any page.
One booking drawer everywhere.
Every book button opens the same drawer, with a demo tee sheet that a real club would connect to the tee-sheet software it already runs.
Eight sections in the order a golfer asks.
The homepage answers a golfer's questions in the order they come, starting with whether they can play today and what it costs.
A dated course report.
A note on the greens, the pins and the cart rules has to be true on the day it is posted, which makes it proof a golfer can trust.
The thinking behind the build
Larch Hollow Golf Club is a fictional destination course on a mountain river in BC. The site is built around the larch, the conifer that turns gold and drops its needles. The course changes through the year, so the site changes with it, and every hour and open sign on it is worked out from one season clock.
Every fact appears once, where a golfer looks for it. The hours, the tee-time booking, the par and the yardage each have one home on the page, and the first useful fact sits on the first screen. Nothing on the page is a claim the course can't back up.
The concept came from the tree. A larch turns gold in October and drops its needles, so the course looks different in April, August and October. The site works from the same idea. One season clock and one file of club facts drive every hour, open sign and rate time on every page. Out of season, the hero switches to spring booking by itself. Nobody at the club has to remember to update the website, because no hour on it is typed by hand.
Booking is one behaviour. Every book button opens the same drawer. A golfer picks a date, one to four players, walking or cart, and a time, with the twilight rate marked from 3 pm. The sheet is labelled as a demo on screen. For a real club, the same drawer connects to the tee-sheet software the club already runs.
Instead of a star rating, the homepage carries a course report, a dated note signed by the superintendent on the greens, the pins and the cart rules for the day. It is more useful to a golfer than a star count, and a competitor cannot copy it, because it has to be true this morning. On this concept the day's calls come from the weather forecast. On a real club's site, the superintendent posts them each morning.
Speed and access were measured. The ball-drop hero kept its 60 frames, phones get frames cut to their own screen shape, and every image is served at the size it is shown. A phone's first view of the homepage went from 4.8 MB to 499 KB. The automated accessibility scan reads zero critical or serious issues on every route, the served pages were clean on 29 routes, and the whole site works from the keyboard. It is built toward WCAG 2.2 AA.
The pattern carries straight to a real course. The season clock runs on the club's real hours and its real sunset, the drawer connects to its own tee-sheet provider, and the course report is written by its own superintendent. Every page is built from the same kit, so a new page for a tournament or a league night starts from parts that already work.
What a golfer knows before they call the Pro Shop.
Today's answer
The hero says which day of the season it is and whether the Pro Shop is open right now, so a golfer knows before they get in the car.
A tee time in a few taps
Date, players, walking or cart, then a time. The same drawer opens from every page, on any phone.
The course before the trip
Eighteen hole pages, the scorecard and the club's history answer what a travelling golfer studies before booking.
Everything that shipped.
I built every page on a shared kit: a today strip, a tee-times preview, a dated course report, a two-lane block for visitors and members, and one closing block. The homepage tells its story in eight sections. Every time-sensitive line comes from one season clock and one file of club facts. That includes whether the Pro Shop is open right now against today's sunset, when the twilight rate starts, and an off-season state that turns the site to spring booking. Every book button opens the same drawer, and the drawer holds a working demo tee sheet.
Highlights
- A ball-drop hero of 60 frames, with a lighter set of frames cut to a phone's own shape
- A today strip in the hero with the day of the season, the current weather and whether the Pro Shop is open
- One booking drawer behind every book button, holding a demo tee sheet with dates, 1 to 4 players and cart choice
- Twilight rates marked from 3 pm on the tee sheet, worked out from the same clock as the hours
- A dated course report on greens, pins and cart rules where the old site showed star ratings
- Eighteen hole pages, a full scorecard and a club history page for golfers who study a course first
- Two homepage lanes for golfers coming from away and golfers playing all season, with drive times and memberships
- Separate event, corporate and Retirees Club pages, plus a written accessibility statement
Pages and surfaces
- Home
- Book a tee time
- Rates
- Course hub
- Scorecard
- 18 hole pages
- Club history
- Today's conditions
- Pro Shop
- The Larchview Grill
- Events hub
- Book an event
- Corporate events
- Lessons
- Memberships
- Retirees Club
- Plan your visit
- Stay and play
- US visitors
- Dress code
- About the club
- The team
- FAQ
- Contact
- Accessibility
Real code. Real routes. Production ready.
- Club hours and facts live in one file, so a change of hours is one edit that reaches every page
- The season clock works out the Pro Shop's open state against sunset, the twilight start and the off-season, every day
- Live weather from Open-Meteo feeds the hero strip, the conditions page and the course report
- Images are cut to four sizes and served at the size shown, so a phone's first view of the homepage is 499 KB
- Zero critical or serious issues in the automated accessibility scan on every route, built toward WCAG 2.2 AA
- Every page uses the same booking label and ends with the same closing block, so no two pages contradict each other
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How it was built
Larch Hollow is a fictional concept, and the site says so on every page. The course, its history, its people and its rates are invented, and the tee sheet is labelled as a demo with no booking engine behind it. For a real course, the same system runs on your real hours, your real tee sheet and your real name. Counts read from the live site on October 5, 2026.
Your course changes every season. Your site can too.
The same season clock, booking drawer and course report can be built around your course, your hours and your name. Start with the free check-up and I will show you where your site is out of date. No website yet? Tell me about the course and I will show you where to begin.
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