Players 1st

For the people who run golf

The intelligence behind the world's best-run golf courses.

Rounds, revenue, utilisation and what your golfers say, benchmarked against your market, explained, and turned into actions before you ask.

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3,000+ golf courses
Trusted by the industry

A general manager with a tablet looks out over a links course from the clubhouse terrace.
Performance · Q3 · Kestrel Point GCvs national benchmark

0

Rounds YTD

+4% LY

$0.00M

Revenue

−3% budget

$0

RevPATT

market $38

What the platform found

Green fee revenue is $71,000 behind budget. The cause is your weekday 3–6pm window: 41% full against a market norm of 63%.

Source: tee sheetSource: national benchmark

Drafted for your review

Dynamic pricing, weekdays 3–6pm · est. +$9,200/mo

Review

10+

Years benchmark

3,000+

Golf courses

30+

Associations

20+

Countries

Chat first

Ask it something.

This is how 3,000+ courses work with their data. Pick a question a GM asked this morning.

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See it on your own data

One platform, three layers

Data. Intelligence. Automation. In that order.

Every course starts with the data layer. The layers above it grow over time, on the same platform, without re-implementation.

01 · Data

Here today

Every number, one place

Rounds, revenue, bookings, member demographics and a decade of survey data, standardised and benchmarked against your market through federations and associations.

02 · Intelligence

Here & expanding

Answers first

Ask in plain English why RevPATT trails the market or where rounds went, then open the full dashboard behind any answer when you want to go deeper.

03 · Automation

Rolling out

Work done before you ask

Pricing proposals, board reports, retention outreach, drafted by the platform and approved by you. The layer we're building next, with the courses already on the first two.

How the best-run courses think

Where you stand. Why. What's next.

Operational data tells you what already happened. What your golfers say explains it and predicts what happens next. The platform walks you through all three.

1 · Where you stand

Your RevPATT trails the market.

The benchmark, run with your association or federation, puts your KPIs against the national trend. That's the starting question, not the answer.

You

$31

Market

$38

RevPATT · YTD · national benchmark

2 · Why (looking back)

Rounds are down, and it's specific.

Operational data locates the gap: not everywhere, but weekday afternoons, and not everyone — visits by members under 40 fell hardest.

Rounds played, YoY−8%
Weekday 3–6pm utilisation41%
Visits, members under 40−19%

Source: booking + member data

3 · What's next (looking forward)

Your golfers already told you.

Experience data explains the past and predicts the future: low satisfaction in a segment today means churn and flat revenue next season, unless you act now.

CSAT, members under 4071 · low
Predicted churn, this segment↑ 2.4×
Top driver in commentsPace of play

Source: surveys → forecast

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From benchmark to action in one platform

The cost of not knowing

Empty tee times never show up on a P&L.

Your tee sheet knows exactly where rounds and revenue go missing: which days, which windows, which golfers stopped coming. Put your numbers in.

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See your own gap, benchmarked

Your course

28,000
$45
68%

$592,941

Annual revenue sitting in empty tee times

Filling a quarter of them is worth $148,235, before F&B and pro-shop spend.

3,000+ golf courses · 20+ countries · trusted by the industry

“The Players 1st platform has greatly enhanced our ability to engage our golfers and gain critical intelligence. These insights bring a comprehensive perspective into our golfer’s experiences and allows our operators to react in real time.”

Mike Ryan · Chief Operating Officer, Troon Golf

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Four people around a table reviewing printed reports, with the course and the water beyond the window.

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