Top-rated club installs 60 Club Car Precedent cars fully loaded with the INOVA dashview GPS and car control solution
AUSTIN, Texas (August 10, 2006) – UpLink Corporation (UpLink) announces that LedgeStone Golf Club (LedgeStone) in Reeds Spring, Missouri, has equipped its course with 60 Club Car Precedent electric golf cars complete with the latest in integrated golf car GPS and car control technology from UpLink. Each Precedent car features a seamlessly integrated dashview GPS display screen and two way communication system along with car speed, cart path control and lockdown features.
"Golfer safety and customer service are our top priorities," comments Darryl Ransdell, president and CEO of the Stonebridge Village Property Owner’s Association (Stonebridge), the company that owns LedgeStone. "When we saw how UpLink’s INOVA system could protect our golfers on the course while providing non-stop customer service, we knew we had to have it, even if it meant changing out our fleet to the new Club Car Precedent."
While UpLink’s INOVA solution is available for any make or model of car, the INOVA dashview and IQLink car-control options are available exclusively with select Club Car vehicles. INOVA’s IQLink option increases golfer safety by enabling the course to remotely control car speeds, stop cars from entering hazardous course areas and lockdown their entire fleet at night. This is a significant benefit to courses like LedgeStone that may have hazardous areas like hills and ravines. The INOVA solution further ensures a safe golf game with the ability to transmit weather warnings and other messages to golfers in real-time.
Continues Ransdell, "In addition to golfer safety, INOVA provides the ultimate customer experience for our golfers with a widescreen dashview GPS display and remote food and beverage ordering. We also hope to boost our bottom line by promoting our real estate opportunities through ads on the INOVA screens and better managing our tournaments."
UpLink’s senior executive vice president of sales and marketing, Mike Cronin, believes the installation at LedgeStone is a prime example of their successful ongoing partnership with Club Car and joint mandate to provide courses with integrated golf car GPS solutions. "LedgeStone had an existing Club Car fleet in place, but made the decision to upgrade to the new Precedent cars primarily to take advantage of the integrated GPS and car control options provided by INOVA."
According to Cronin, Stonebridge’s ongoing relationship with Club Car contributed to their decision to select UpLink. "Club Car has a fantastic reputation in the industry, and as a Club Car partner, courses feel that UpLink is the safe choice when it comes to GPS." UpLink is the only GPS golf company to offer integrated GPS and car control solutions and Club Car is the only car manufacturing to feature integrated GPS solutions in its cars.
For more information, visit UpLink’s website at www.uplinkgolf.com or contact Corrine Perry-Rotan at cperry@uplinkgolf.com or 512-637-4884.
About UpLink
Since 1998, Austin, Texas based UpLink Corporation has developed innovative GPS-based business solutions to help golf courses, clubs and resorts across North America engage their golfers, secure their fleets and transform their bottom lines. Considered the fastest growing GPS golf solutions provider in North America, UpLink’s solutions are installed at renowned courses including Walt Disney World Resort and Poppy Hills Golf Course. This year, UpLink introduced a completely new point of view on GPS with INOVA, a total GPS golf business solution offering a number of industry firsts including integrated widescreen dashview or roofview GPS displays, multimedia audio, integrated maintenance vehicle tracking applications and multi-event GPS advertising.
Committed to assisting courses in generating revenue while controlling costs, UpLink offers a turnkey sponsorship program to help courses transform GPS advertising into long-term profit centers. The last 20 courses to use this program averaged over $78,000 in advertising revenue. Moreover, UpLink offers the only GPS solutions with intelligent car control options, addressing key issues of golfer safety, car theft and course damage. Committed to GPS golf industry innovation, UpLink owns a number of patents and is the exclusive GPS partner to leading golf car manufacturer, Club Car, Inc. For more information, visit www.uplinkgolf.com.
About LedgeStone
Described by Golf Digest as "a masterpiece of mountain golf architecture," LedgeStone is an 18-hole championship course offering the kind of golfing experience where "players don’t want the round to end." Located at StoneBridge Village in Branson, Missouri, LedgeStone’s spectacular scenery and panoramic vistas prompt many golfers to pull out their camera and capture shots of the hilly terrain and lush forests bordering the Zoysia fairways and greens. Water comes in to play on 10 holes.
At the entrance of the golf course stands a 27,000-square foot, two-level Clubhouse that serves as the activity hub at LedgeStone. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the LedgeStone Grille located at fairway level on the first floor. LedgeStone’s sports lounge serves as a perfect setting for casual meetings and friendly get-togethers. A spacious fitness facility is an inviting venue for pre-round warm-up or post-round cool down. The newly remodeled lower-level Pro Shop is the information center coordinating all golfing activities.
Stepping outside the Clubhouse will lead to the driving range, putting green, four lighted tennis courts and a "splash-tacular" swimming pool. Come early. Stay late. Bring the entire family and make a day of it. For more information, visit www.LedgeStonegolf.com.
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