Golf District, founded by Josh Segal, offers a platform to resell tee times, aiming to solve the issue of unused reservations in the golf world, similar to StubHub for concerts and sports. The platform works with golf courses to allow golfers to resell their tee times, addressing the problem of wasted green fees and limited course access.
Masters season is here, which means, as the season changes, golf fever is reaching its peak in the calendar. However, there are not many worse feelings than booking a tee time and then suddenly not being able to make it.
The green fees go to waste, and a day on the course is no more. However, Golf District is attempting to salvage at least one of those unfortunate circumstances. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXBUSINESS.COM Founded by Josh Segal, a former running back at Elon University who was teammates with comedian Shane Gillis, Golf District has labeled itself "the modern solution for selling tee times." Think StubHub, but for days on the links. "It was probably in COVID where we realized how hard it was to get a time. And at the time we started the company, I was running growth for Starbucks on the East Coast and totally not in the golf industry," Segal said in a recent interview with FOX Business. "The scarcity looked a lot like what we see in concerts and sports. So we took a proven model, and we applied it to golf to fix a lot of the problems." Segal works out deals "through approvals and agreements" with select courses, and it's a win-win for everybody involved. TIGER WOODS' ENTIRE SOBRIETY TEST CAUGHT ON BODYCAM FOOTAGE: 'I'M GETTING ARRESTED?' With almost 10% of reservations never fulfilled, golf courses lose money when people don't make their tee times that they scheduled in advance, the golfers pay without playing, and those unused reservations keep other golfers off the course. "We're not just a modern booking engine. I mean, it's, point-blank, providing better access," Segal said. "We get a lot of people outside the industry that get it right away, and golfers get it right away. So, the golfers that now have the access that they didn't have and the ability to resell their times are thanking us. Every single time we open up a new course implementation, we get a lot of golfers that thank our customer support team for being available." Golf District officially went to market less than two years ago, and conversations with high-profile courses have already begun with more to come. "We have dozens of courses now, and we really want this — we believe that the opportunity for the U.S. exists. You've got 16,000 golf courses in the U.S. and 10,000-plus are basically public," Segal said. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE If you're wondering why this hasn't been done before, you are not the only one. "It's daily," Segal said, "that we hear, ‘Why hasn’t this been done before?'"
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