Club software and services leader teams with golfnow for business-building tee sheet management
ORLANDO, Fla. (June 29, 2010) – Golf Channel and Crescent Systems announced a multi-year agreement that provides turnkey, business-building services for Crescent customers and creates additional momentum for GolfNow.com, Golf Channel’s online tee-time reservation service.
Established in 1996, McHenry, Ill.-based Crescent Systems is a software and services company that focuses on the club industry.
Through the partnership, GolfNow.com will interface with Crescent Systems’ tee sheet management software, allowing golfers to view available tee times and make immediate online reservations.
More than 2,000 courses and one million golfers across the U.S. use the GolfNow.com electronic tee time system. The service is helping golf courses better monetize their tee-time inventory while attracting new golfers.
“Crescent Systems is excited about the new partnership with GolfNow.com. The relationship offers Crescent clients the best media exposure, broader market outreach for increased tee time bookings online and the finest yield management functionality for clubs,” said Neal Trogdon, president of Crescent Systems. “With the full resources of Golf Channel propelling GolfNow.com to a clear leadership position in online tee time products, the partnership exceeds Crescent Systems’ objective of providing its clients the best products, support and training to build their business. Dozens of Crescent clients, including clubs, resorts, municipalities and management companies, already experience the power of Golf Channel via GolfNow.com, and we expect a paradigm increase in utilization as the Crescent Systems/GolfNow.com interface operates automatically, flawlessly and with great results.”
About Golf Channel
Golf Channel is a multimedia, golf entertainment and services company based in Orlando, Fla. The Golf Channel cable network, co-founded by Arnold Palmer and a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), is available in more than 120 million homes worldwide through cable, satellite and wireless companies. Exclusive partnerships with the world’s top tours allow Golf Channel to feature more live golf coverage than all other networks combined, added to a programming schedule distinguished by golf’s best news, instruction and original programming. Golf Channel’s digital platform of businesses is led by www.GolfChannel.com, the number-one golf destination on the Internet, delivering unmatched coverage of the world of golf, as well as services that help the recreational player with how to play, what to play and where to play golf.
About Crescent Systems
Crescent Systems provides integrated hospitality and club management software to all segments of the club, municipal and resort industries including golf, yacht, athletic, city, alumni and destination resort clubs. Founded in 1996 with world headquarters north of Chicago, Crescent Systems has several hundred clients in 47 states and extending into the Pacific Rim. Crescent has established and sustained its reputation as a high quality software provider with outstanding customer service. Unique in the industry as the only former owner/manager of member-based clubs, Crescent now focuses its expertise exclusively on providing efficient technology solutions and making the complex solution a simple implementation. Crescent’s intuitive and easy-to-use system has made it a leader in integrated, real-time enterprise business systems in both client-server and now in the online web-services space. Crescent offers products for point-of-sale, inventory, membership, reservations, fine dining, credit card processing, loyalty rewards, labor management and on-line access for conducting secure transactions and information retrieval. For more information, contact Crescent Systems at (888) 487-9011 or visit the website: http://www.crescentsystems.com
Contact:
Dan Higgins
Golf Channel Public Relations
407-355-4018
dhiggins@golfchannel.com
Martin Izzi
Crescent Systems Business Development
847-573-9011
martin@crescentsystems.com
