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Originally Posted by toddsmig
TV hasn't updated their online golf system in decades. Especially same day, having to call multiple courses in the hopes of maybe finding a tee time wastes golfers' time, and the starters'/pro shops' time. Most courses nowadays (outside of TV) have "real time" tee times right on their website. As a reservation is made, the site updates immediately. Calling around course to course is archaic. Id#'s and the "points" system could all easily be integrated into a new real-time, entirely web based system.
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What you request is great, but more than just a new system is involved. Perhaps you are the problem and not the system.
Consider what happens that affects the system.
Cancellations are often called in or found when the person does not show up. The starter shacks may not have computer access nor time to enter all changes. Even if the starter did have access to computer, he would still get manual input phoned in or by walk ups. He may be busy collecting money from guests, persons who need to pay trail fees, cart rentals. He would have to have access to real time schedules as persons show up and his preprinted schedule with notes would be obsolete. With tee times scheduled every 8,9 or 10 minutes, the starter must keep the unruly mob of cats in line and moving.
And much of the hectic activity is caused by people who don't use the automatic system to start with. They are the ones who call around at the last minute searching for tee times that match their needs. I golf 3 times a week using the scheduling system to reserve times. If I find that I want to play after the schedule is in place, I still have three days to search for an open time on the system. If I wait for the day of play consistently, perhaps I am the problem and not the system.