Stop Trading Tee Times for Software
Links Meridian is the GolfNow alternative for courses that would rather pay a published monthly fee than pay for software in tee times. GolfNow's barter model takes tee times and resells them; Links Meridian runs from $99 a month and every tee time stays yours.
GolfNow's tee sheet carries no subscription in its barter model: the course pays in tee times, which GolfNow resells, and keeps the revenue. One consultant's analysis of a single East Coast course found $34,042 of rounds sold on its traded tee times in 2015, revenue the course never received (JJ Keegan, June 2016).
GolfNow's operations software for public courses adds a point of sale, a customer database and email and social media tools (GolfNow for Business, checked 3 October 2026). Read the term, the notice period and the trade-time commitments in your own GolfNow agreement before you sign or renew.
Links Meridian is priced the other way: a published monthly fee from $99 to $1,799, and every tee time stays yours. The tee sheet, online booking under your club's name, the member portal, pro shop and F&B tills, a double-entry ledger, tournaments and the Digital Clubhouse run on one login.
Your current system stays live until you sign off on Links Meridian. Links Meridian helps you set up direct booking under your own brand and plan the redirects and member communications, so golfers book with the course and the revenue stays with the course.
The Outcome for Your Club
Keep every tee time
No traded inventory and no marketplace reselling your busiest slots. Every booking you take stays yours.
Direct Bookings, Your Brand
Golfers book on a page with your club's name, colours and photography, on your own domain with Enterprise. The customer relationship stays with the course.
Revenue Control
You set the pricing rules, restrictions and lottery windows. On Enterprise, demand-pricing suggestions respond to how full the sheet is, and a member of staff approves each one before it goes live.
A Platform That Runs the Club
Tee sheet, POS, accounting, member portal and tournaments on one login. GolfNow sells distribution; Links Meridian runs the course and the club around it.
Published Monthly Pricing
Plans from $99 to $1,799 a month, published. No tee-time trade and no revenue share.
Your current system stays live until you sign off
You choose the go-live date. Links Meridian helps you plan the redirects and member communications for the move to direct booking.
Links Meridian vs GolfNow
Common Questions
How much are the tee times we trade to GolfNow worth?
Value them at your own green fee: multiply the trade times in your GolfNow contract by the rate you would have charged. For a sense of scale, one consultant found $34,042 of rounds sold on a single East Coast course's traded tee times in 2015 (JJ Keegan). Links Meridian's Professional tier is $749 a month and trades nothing.
Do we have to switch off GolfNow on day one?
No. Your current GolfNow system stays live until you sign off on Links Meridian, so you can set up direct booking and train staff first. Check your GolfNow agreement for its term, its notice period and its trade-time commitments before you fix a date.
How do we move our existing GolfNow traffic to our own site?
Links Meridian helps you set up a booking page under your own brand and plan the transition: redirects from your existing booking links, member communications, social announcements, and guidance on capturing branded search traffic.
Is there a free trial of Links Meridian?
After your demo we set your club up for you and give you the login. No fee until you go live.
What about marketplace traffic? GolfNow drives bookings.
Some GolfNow demand is real, and some is golfers who would have booked with the course directly had they found it first. Links Meridian gives you direct booking under your own brand, email campaigns on Enterprise and branded-search guidance, so you can measure how much of that demand you keep yourself before you decide what to trade.
Take your tee times back
A complete club platform, published pricing, and 100% of your inventory stays yours.