How FunFlight™ Helps Golf Courses |
Grow the game, increase revenue opportunities, and have fun doing it!
You can adapt FunFlight to your golf course any way you would like – You can use “Play if Forward” Tees, have golfers start the hole at the 100 or 150 yard marker, have them start wherever they feel comfortable. You can use/install FootGolf Holes, you use a driveway stake and a pool noodle for a flag and draw a generous circle around it for a no-impact hole, or you can have golfers hit the FunFlight Ball until they get on the putting green and then use a putter and a traditional golf ball to putt into a regulation hole, an 8” hole, or a 15” hole. Experiment with cutting a 15” cup in the fairway. FunFlight embraces experimentation and setting up a FunFlight course that works well with your facility and your customers. It's all about having fun, growing the game, and your bottom line.
You can adapt FunFlight to your golf course any way you would like – You can use “Play if Forward” Tees, have golfers start the hole at the 100 or 150 yard marker, have them start wherever they feel comfortable. You can use/install FootGolf Holes, you use a driveway stake and a pool noodle for a flag and draw a generous circle around it for a no-impact hole, or you can have golfers hit the FunFlight Ball until they get on the putting green and then use a putter and a traditional golf ball to putt into a regulation hole, an 8” hole, or a 15” hole. Experiment with cutting a 15” cup in the fairway. FunFlight embraces experimentation and setting up a FunFlight course that works well with your facility and your customers. It's all about having fun, growing the game, and your bottom line.
- FunFlight increases the number of tee times sold by creating a larger customer base and encouraging people to play more often.
- Your current customer will play more golf! They will no longer have to spend their recreational dollars elsewhere to spend time with friends and family who don't know how to play golf. Parents can bring their kids, eliminating the choice of one spouse staying home or finding a babysitter.
- Increased food and beverage sales from more rounds played. More groups will stick around to socialize after their round rather than leaving right away to spend time with non-golfing friends and family.
- FunFlight helps new golfers play faster. Faster pace of play means happy customers and more rounds played because golf won't take so long. Staff will also receive fewer complaints about pace of play.
- Host FunFlight outings and corporate events – increase the number outings and the number of of participants in your current outings. Golfers can play golf and new-golfers can play FunFlight Golf, filling out your shotguns. By adding a FunFlight Golf Division you can offer networking and fundraising opportunities to new and non-golfers. This unique offering will give you a competitive advantange over other golf courses when marketing your course to companies and funraising groups.
- You can sell or rent old demo clubs, irons from mismatched rental sets, and lost and found that has gone beyond the redemption period (mid irons work best - but we've seen hybrids and 9-irons work too)
- Golf courses without driving ranges can increase revenue through new golfer classes and clinics during off-peak times.
- FunFlight allows for immediate non-golfer participation. Golfers can bring kids, family members, and friends to play with them right away even if they do not have previous golf experience. The best marketing is having your current customers recruit new customers for you!
- People like to be good at activities and by making the game easier people will enjoy it sooner rather having to wait until they are good enough to enjoy it. People will want to play more golf because it makes them feel a sense of accomplishment and it’s more fun.
- Due to a minimum of clubs used, motorized carts and pull carts become less necessary for new golfers, therefore reducing wear and tear as well as accidental damage to the course by inexperienced golfers.
- If using a FootGolf hole (not on the putting green), young golfers and new golfers will not use the putting greens, therefore reducing maintenance time repairing damaged putting greens.
- For courses with FootGolf, FunFlight will create a bridge between FootGolfers and traditional golfers. FootGolf will be viewed as a gateway into golf rather than a competition for tee times and course use.
- More people will identify themselves as golfers, therefore increasing the course’s marketing base.