Golf Club Adds GPS to Help Golfers Navigate Changes
CHANDLER, Ariz., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ProLink Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ProLink Holdings Corp. and the world’s leading provider of Global Positioning Satellite (”GPS”) golf course management systems and digital out-of-home on-course advertising, today announced The Golf Club of The Wharf (Gulf Shores, Ala.) now features the ProLink Solutions GPS system used at many of the world’s most famous golf courses and plans to participate in ProLink’s exclusive national advertising opportunity.
Formerly called Gulf Shores Golf Club, The Golf Club of The Wharf underwent an extensive renovation in 2005-06 at the hands of father-son design team Jay and Carter Morrish. The overhaul lengthened the par-71 course by 300 yards and added numerous water features, bunkers and enhanced fairways. Now boasting five sets of tees ranging from 4,866 to 6,919 yards, the club is associated with The Wharf resort development in nearby Orange Beach, Ala.
“Thanks to ProLink GPS, our longtime golfers are able to quickly familiarize themselves with the changes to the course,” said Rea Schuessler, Head Golf Professional at The Golf Club of the Wharf. “It’s also a great tool for speeding pace of play, managing carts and food and beverage functions, while the advertising revenue-share component makes ProLink a truly sound investment.” Full CNN GPS golf tracking story here.
Once again, incontrovertible proof that golf makes you smart! Really kind of interesting to me. I’ve published a number of articles in the past about gold courses and GPS. See GPS And Google On The Golf Course? and What Do You Bet He “Can’t Afford” GPS Tracking For Company Vehicles for a few samples.
I never learned to play. I encouraged both my sons to learn to play also, but they didn’t choose to. If only I had taken up golf … ideally back in high school, where my grades went to the toilet … perhaps I’d be running a golf course today and able to do the math that proves that a small investment can yield dividends far greater than the modest up-front cost.
More than 90% of US businessmen can’t do that simple math … and probably more than 95% of public fleet managers find such “rocket science” eludes them … but hardly a week goes by that I don’t see an article like this one.
GPS tracking costs a modest amount to implement. The cost to get the program underway is normally recovered in six-months time … often much quicker. The payoffs then roll in, month after month, year after year. learn about it, get the true cost, then try it, you’ll like it. As my old dearly departed friend Justin E. Wilson (April 24, 1914 - September 5, 2001) was famous for saying, “I gar-on-tee!“