Burr Ridge, Illinois, January 26, 2009 – Fore! Reservations, the leading provider of golf course management and marketing software, today announced more than 2,000,000 rounds were booked online through course Web sites using the Fore! Reservations software during the 2008 season.
“The growth of Internet bookings each year has been tremendous. We project continued growth, estimating that more than 3,000,000 rounds will be booked online in 2009,” states Harry Ipema, President and CEO of Fore! Reservations.
Golf courses using the Fore! Internet Premium product developed by Fore! Reservations can benefit from the power of the Internet and grow their business by driving traffic to the course’s Web site. This gives courses more control of the booking process and offers customers a convenient way to book tee times online.
Fore! Internet Premium provides courses the necessary tools to seamlessly integrate the course’s Web site with the reservation booking pages. The appearance of the booking pages are customized by the course and framed into its Web site, resulting in a well-branded site that keeps customers on the course’s Web site. Golf courses can also create and easily manage an online specials calendar enabling the course operator to determine when to offer tee time specials, the value of the specials, and to also promote rack rate tee times.
“Every tee time has value. With Fore! Internet Premium, course operators can internally manage their Web branding and effectively market their tee times, lessening the dependency on third party companies that barter tee times,” Ipema adds. “We’ve seen that courses can have success growing their online business with Fore! Internet Premium.”
Fore! Internet Premium also assists course operators with the day-to-day management of the business by offering Internet tee times 24-hours a day, reducing incoming phone calls and freeing up staff, and providing convenient reservation options for customers. Fore! Internet Premium also features rules-based bookings, restrictive booking quantities, and online customer profiles so golfers can re-book with ease. In addition, the course Web site integrates with the Fore! Reservations customer database and local tee sheet resulting in accurate customer data collection and efficient tee time management at the course.
For more information about Fore! Reservations, please visit www.forereservations.com or contact 630-789-9705.
About Fore! Reservations
Fore! Reservations, established in 1995, is the leading provider of golf course management and marketing software. Its software provides courses with an easy-to-use Tee Time Reservation System, Integrated Online Tee Times, E-mail Marketing tools, a sophisticated Customer Database Management, a Point-of-Sale system, and unrivaled Customer Service. With over 1,800 golf course installations represented by every state in the U.S. and numerous installations in Canada, it is the number one selling tee sheet in the golf industry. Fore! Reservations is a privately held company with offices in Burr Ridge and Wheaton, Illinois.
Contact:
Scott Merchant
Director of Marketing
630-789-9705, x.117
merchant@teeitup.com
