We started working with a well respected expert in the golf industry, Bill Yates — founder of Grey Town Golf, LLC. They are a golf management company in Pebble Beach, CA. Bill’s expertise is consulting to courses about how to improve the pace of play.
Based on his interest in a prior blog article we have begun work on a system for using GPS technology to improve the pace of play as well as maintenance and service at golf courses by tracking the various types of golf carts.
Starfire in Scottsdale was nice enough to work with us on this project, and here are 5 of their carts for yesterday:
Here is that activity as a movie:
GPS Insight movie of golf carts throughout the day
I need to remember how to embed that video into the blog, but for now it will open up in a new window.
This sample data allows us to now write alerts, reports, and maps which will allow Bill and Grey Town Golf to improve their pace of play system significantly.
Here is a “current status” dashboard view of the course and the 5 carts we’re tracking currently:
We look forward to bringing this system to market in early 2009 (and maybe I’ll get some time to test it out on the course myself…).
Rob.