Switching
Looking for a BRS Golf alternative
Caddyio is a white-label golf club platform used alongside or instead of BRS Golf, adding a branded member app, live on-course tracking and coaching from £99 a month with no per-member fees and no tee-time commission — though BRS Core remains the stronger choice for selling visitor tee times.
This page is more cautious than the others, deliberately. BRS Core is, by its own figures, the most installed tee sheet in the world, and if what you need is visitor demand through a marketplace, nothing here beats it. Most clubs searching for a BRS alternative do not actually want a different tee sheet — they want the things a booking platform has no reason to build.
Why clubs look for an alternative to BRS Golf
The member app is BRS-branded, not yours
The same app carries every club on the platform. For a proprietary course selling tee times that may be a fair trade; for a members' club with its own identity, the everyday touchpoint carrying somebody else's name is the thing that eventually prompts the search.
The commercial logic is distribution
BRS Core is the club-facing arm of the GolfNow business, and GolfNow's business is moving golfers through its marketplace into your sheet. That is worth real money if you have tee times to sell. It also means the golfer's relationship increasingly sits with GolfNow and GolfPass rather than with your club — which is a genuine trade, not a scandal, and worth making deliberately rather than by default.
A tee sheet books the round; it doesn't run it
Once the booking is made, BRS Core's job is largely done. It does not show players moving live over your course, track pace of play, take an order from the fairway, manage your professional's lessons, or give a coach shot maps of a student's round.
Two ways forward — and one of them isn’t switching
You do not have to replace BRS Golf to get any of this. Most clubs start by running Caddyio alongside what they already have.
Route one — replace it
Honestly, this is the route fewest clubs should take, and we would rather say so than sell it. It makes sense for a members'-focused club with little visitor trade, no reliance on GolfNow distribution and no EPOS dependency — a club for whom the tee sheet is an internal diary rather than a sales channel.
- Caddyio's tee sheet covers per-course intervals, party sizes, booking horizon, blackouts, a staff diary and manual bookings for guests.
- Green fees can be applied automatically to visitors and members in arrears.
- You give up the GolfNow marketplace entirely — Caddyio has no distribution network and will not fill your empty times.
- You give up EPOS; Caddyio does not do point-of-sale.
- Official WHS publication stays elsewhere; Caddyio's index is indicative and exported.
Route two — keep BRS, add Caddyio alongside
For most clubs this is the right answer, and it is not a consolation prize. Keep the best tee sheet in golf and the marketplace demand that comes with it. Add the member-experience and on-course layer BRS has no commercial reason to build.
- Keep BRS Core and GolfNow selling your tee times exactly as they do now.
- Put your own brand back in front of members with a white-label app on your own domain.
- Run the clubhouse GPS wallboard, live scoring, pace of play and on-course service requests.
- Give your professional real coaching tools — lessons, goals and shot maps over your own course.
- Run competitions, Orders of Merit and Eclectics natively rather than through a partner integration.
When you should absolutely stay with BRS
If filling visitor tee times is how your club makes money, stay. GolfNow lists thousands of courses and is the largest online tee-time seller there is, with a mailing list and media partnerships behind it; Caddyio has no marketplace and no visitor-demand network, and pretending otherwise would not survive your first quarter. The same applies if you depend on BRS's point-of-sale, or on its WHS publication route. Those are real reasons to stay, and none of them are solved by switching.
The feature-by-feature comparison
A full side-by-side table lives on the comparison page, including the rows where BRS Golf (BRS Core) wins. Last verified against their own published material in August 2026.
Compare Caddyio and BRS Golf (BRS Core)Common questions
- Is Caddyio a replacement for BRS Golf?
- It can be, but for most clubs it should not be. BRS Core is the most installed tee sheet in the world and comes with GolfNow's marketplace demand behind it. Caddyio has no marketplace at all. The stronger position for most clubs is to keep BRS for booking and distribution and add Caddyio for the branded member app, the live on-course layer and coaching.
- Does Caddyio charge tee-time commission?
- No. Caddyio is a flat club subscription from £99 a month with no per-member fees and no commission on bookings. It also has no marketplace, so it brings no visitor demand — the two facts are the same fact seen from either side.
- Can we use Caddyio without moving our tee sheet?
- Yes, and it is the usual arrangement for BRS clubs. The wallboard, live scoring, coaching, competitions and the member app all work with your tee sheet staying exactly where it is.
Rather hear it from a club?
We’ll put you in touch with a club already running on Caddyio, so you can ask them the things you’d never ask us — how the switch actually went, what broke, and what they’d do differently. No sales call attached.