Golfer API
GolfNow's Affiliate API is a documented REST surface (JSON or XML) for course search, tee-time availability, and reservations, secured with OAuth 2.0. Access requires a GolfNow account and manual approval before credentials are issued; a sandbox and a status dashboard are provided.
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Golfer scores B on the API Report Card. GolfNow's Affiliate API is a documented REST surface (JSON or XML) for course search, tee-time availability, and reservations, secured with OAuth 2.0. Access requires a GolfNow account and manual approval before credentials are issued; a sandbox and a status dashboard are provided.
Golfer has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
GolfNow is the world's largest online golf tee time marketplace and an integrated golf course management software vendor.
Misc, golf hospitality / leisure marketplace + vertical course management SaaS. Operators use the G1 cloud tee sheet to manage tee time inventory, dynamic pricing/yield, online and walk-in bookings, member and loyalty programs, F&B and pro-shop POS, gift cards, league management, marketing automation, and reporting.
Very high within golf. Largest online tee time marketplace globally, 9,000+ connected courses across the US, Canada, Bermuda, Mexico, Ireland, and Scotland, and an estimated ~90% share of aggregated online tee-time inventory after the EZLinks acquisition.
GolfNow's platforms hold the operational nervous system of thousands of golf courses and millions of golfers: full tee-sheet inventory and dynamic pricing/yield data, every reservation and check-in, customer rosters and contact records, GolfPass/GolfPass+ subscription and rewards balances, payment and refund history, F&B and pro-shop POS transactions, gift card balances, league and tournament rosters, marketing-campaign performance, and aggregated 'Hot Deals' barter inventory used for revenue management.
Mature and consolidated. GolfNow itself is 24+ years old (2001) and has been under Comcast/NBC ownership since 2008.
API access is fully gated behind approval, developers must already be a GolfNow account holder and be manually approved before receiving client credentials, slowing or blocking experimentation. GolfNow explicitly markets a 'basic workbench' and limited documentation for API calls, and direct partner support is described as minimal outside of the affiliate program structure. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Lightspeed Golf (Chronogolf), foreUP, Club Caddie, Teesnap, Club Prophet Systems, Supreme Golf. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.