Is Caddyio a BRS Golf alternative?

For the member experience, yes — a branded member app on your own domain, live scoring and leaderboards, the on-course layer, coaching and shot tracking, plus a tee sheet, membership dues and a member purse. It is not a replacement for EPOS, and it has no equivalent of the GolfNow distribution marketplace. If your priority is selling visitor tee times through a national platform, BRS Core is the stronger fit.

Can we keep BRS Core for the tee sheet and use Caddyio alongside it?

Clubs do run a booking system and a member platform side by side, and everything Caddyio adds beyond the tee sheet — the wallboard, pace of play, on-course service, coaching, shot maps, stats, societies and the club feed — works whether or not members book through it. There is no live integration between the two today, so tee times would be managed in one place; talk to us about how that would look for your club.

Does Caddyio distribute tee times like GolfNow?

No. Caddyio has no tee-time marketplace and does not sell your inventory to a golfer network. Your tee sheet stays yours, which is the point for some clubs and a genuine gap for others.

BRS Core is the club-facing arm of the GolfNow business — its contact addresses are golfnowbusiness.com and its Distribution product is GolfNow — and its website now states the site is part of Versant. GolfNow lists 9,000+ courses on its tee-time platforms worldwide.

Does Caddyio publish official WHS handicaps?

No. Caddyio computes an indicative Handicap Index from members' rounds under WHS maths, for members to follow and export to your handicap secretary. The official record stays with your union-connected provider. BRS Core covers this through its Golf Genius, HandicapMaster and Club Systems integrations.

Does BRS Core offer coaching or shot tracking?

Neither appears anywhere in its published product range, which covers the tee sheet, member booking, memberships, payments, visitor booking, point-of-sale, off-course facility booking, competitions and handicapping, distribution and marketing. Coaching, shot maps and the live on-course layer are where Caddyio is doing something different rather than something better.

Comparison

Caddyio vs BRS Golf (BRS Core)

BRS Core is the biggest tee sheet in golf — 3,500+ clubs, and 670,000 registered members in the UK and Ireland alone. If you are choosing a booking engine, it is a formidable one. But a tee sheet books the round; it doesn't run the round, coach the golfer, or put your club's name on the app. Here's an honest read of where each fits.

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Credit where it's due

Where BRS Core is strong — genuinely

By their own figures, the world's most installed tee sheet: 3,500+ clubs across 14 countries, 670,000 registered members in the UK and Ireland, an 89% NPS. Around it sits a real operational suite — Memberships with billing and subscription schemes, Flexible Memberships with a points wallet golfers top up online, Payments, Visitor Booking, Point-of-sale, and Golf Plus for driving-range and simulator bookings. And behind it all is GolfNow: 9,000+ courses worldwide on the largest online tee-time platform, with a 210,000-golfer mailing list, GolfPass reviews and a Sky Sports partnership. For filling empty visitor tee times, nothing on this comparison page comes close.

Where Caddyio goes further

A booking business and a member-experience business

BRS Core is the club-facing arm of the GolfNow business (its site now states it is part of Versant), and its commercial logic is distribution — more golfers, through its marketplace, into your sheet. That is worth real money to a club with tee times to sell. It also means the member-facing app is BRS-branded across every club that uses it, competitions run through a Golf Genius partnership, and the golfer's relationship increasingly sits with GolfNow and GolfPass. Caddyio bets the other way: your brand on your domain, competitions and scoring built in rather than partnered out, and a live on-course and coaching layer a booking platform has no reason to build.

Caddyio vs BRS Golf (BRS Core), feature by feature

Capability	Caddyio	BRS Golf (BRS Core)
Online tee sheet & member booking Their home ground and the most installed tee sheet in the world. Caddyio's covers per-course intervals, party sizes, horizon, blackouts, staff diary and manual bookings — capable, but this is not the row to switch on.	Yes	Yes
Tee-time distribution marketplace GolfNow lists 9,000+ courses and is the largest online tee-time seller. Caddyio has no marketplace and no visitor-demand network — if that is what you need, BRS Core is the answer.	No	Yes
EPOS / point-of-sale BRS Core includes Point-of-sale; Caddyio does not do EPOS.	No	Yes
Driving-range bay & simulator booking Golf Plus is a real off-course product — ranges, simulator rooms, adventure golf — with an Inrange integration and a booking PIN that starts the session without a check-in. Caddyio now books bays too, with buckets of balls priced and bought as part of the booking, but it does not talk to your ball machine.	Yes	Yes
Range booking inside the member's own record Golf Plus manages the facility. In Caddyio a bay booking sits beside the same member's rounds, handicap, shot map and lessons, so a pro can see that a student practised twice before the round that improved.	Yes	Limited
Official WHS handicap publication BRS Core integrates with WHS via Golf Genius, HandicapMaster and Club Systems. Caddyio tracks an indicative index to export to your handicap secretary — never the official record.	No	Yes
White-label member app on your own domain Their member app is the BRS Core app, the same one across every club on the platform. Caddyio's member area carries your club's name, colours and domain.	Yes	No
Live GPS clubhouse wallboard (your real course) Players moving live on a satellite map of your course. Not something a booking platform offers.	Yes	No
Pace-of-play tracking	Yes	No
On-course service requests (F&B, assistance)	Yes	No
Coaching & lesson management Students, shareable lesson notes, availability, goals, and each lesson's focus area measured across later rounds.	Yes	No
Member shot tracking & coach shot maps Members log shots from the scoring app; the pro gets them on a satellite map of your course, filterable by club for dispersion.	Yes	No
Per-club distances from real rounds Average, spread and longest per club, built from the shots a member logs — no launch monitor or grip sensors.	Yes	No
Lesson effect measured on later rounds Each lesson records a focus area; Caddyio measures the matching statistic across the rounds played since and shows the before and after.	Yes	No
Shared coach/member goals tracked from real rounds A measurable goal agreed at a lesson, filled in automatically from the rounds the member plays.	Yes	No
Member course reporting & greenkeeping notices Members report conditions from the hole with a photo and GPS; staff publish notices back to the round screen.	Yes	No
Native live scoring & leaderboards BRS Core delivers competitions and live leaderboards through a Golf Genius partnership plus a separate BRS Core Scoring app; in Caddyio, scoring, leaderboards and the member app are one product.	Yes	Limited
Performance stats & scoring trends for members BRS Core surfaces handicap and scoring-trend analysis around competitions; Caddyio gives every member rolling averages, par-type splits and a dated trend line from all their rounds.	Yes	Limited
Membership management & billing BRS Core's Memberships is the deeper back office — billing runs, chain subscriptions, auto-disabling non-payers. Caddyio covers plans, subscriptions and payment recording, offline-first.	Yes	Yes
Prepaid member wallet / purse Their Flexible Memberships wallet holds points a golfer tops up online and spends on green fees. Caddyio's purse is a general prepaid balance that also covers on-course food and drink.	Yes	Yes
Pre-paid corporate round balances Flexible Memberships is a points wallet per golfer. Caddyio's corporate account is a company's block of rounds with nominated players, drawn down as they book.	Yes	Limited
Societies & groups	Yes	No
Club news feed & member notifications BRS Core has club messages and in-app notifications tied to booking; Caddyio adds a full club feed with posts, likes and comments.	Yes	Limited
Visitor tee bookings with an automatic green fee BRS Core sells Visitor Booking and Payments as products and does this properly. Caddyio decides who owes a fee — visitors, and members in arrears — but taking it by card is a demonstration today; the settled routes are pre-paid corporate rounds and payment at the counter.	Limited	Yes
Multi-club membership & visitor mode The BRS Core app spans every club on the platform, so a golfer has one login across 3, 500 clubs — but that is the platform's network. Caddyio keeps each club branded while letting a member play and check in across Caddyio clubs.	Yes	Limited
Member & visitor broadcasts with growth analytics BRS Core has Marketing Services, club websites and GolfPass ratings, backed by GolfNow's reach. Caddyio's is inward-facing: your own members and visitors, targeted on repeat visits, dormancy and day-of-week capacity from rounds actually played.	Yes	Limited
Member self-serve data export & deletion Every vendor must honour UK GDPR requests somehow; the difference is self-serve. A Caddyio member exports everything the club holds on them, or deletes their account, from their own settings.	Yes	Limited
Drone-surveyed course imagery & 3D model No incumbent flies your course.	Yes	No

Comparison based on publicly available information, last reviewed August 2026. Competitor features and pricing may change; pricing for these products is not publicly listed. “Limited” indicates a partial or indirect capability.

The app in your members' pockets says your club's name

BRS Core's member booking app is free to clubs and members, which is generous — and it is the BRS Core app, the same one on 3,500 clubs' worth of phones. Caddyio gives your club its own branded member area on your own domain. When a member opens it, they are at your club, not on a platform that happens to list your club.

The round doesn't stop being your business at the first tee

A booking system's job ends when the tee time is confirmed. Caddyio's starts there: a live satellite view of everyone on the course, pace of play as it develops, refreshments and assistance requested from the hole a member is standing on, and course problems reported with a photo and a GPS fix. BRS Core has no equivalent, because it is not what a tee sheet is for.

Coaching and shot data no booking platform has

Members log shots as they play; their club professional opens a satellite map of every one, filters it to a single club for a dispersion pattern, and reads real per-club distances. Each lesson records a focus area, and Caddyio measures it across the rounds played afterwards. That is a reason for a member to renew, and it is not on BRS Core's product list at all.

One product, not a partnership stack

BRS Core delivers competitions and live leaderboards through Golf Genius, handicapping through Golf Genius, HandicapMaster or Club Systems, and scoring through a separate BRS Core Scoring app. Each is a capable partner and each is another vendor, another integration and another place for a member to be handed off. In Caddyio the tee sheet, the scoring, the leaderboard, the stats and the member app are the same product.

Whose golfer is it?

GolfNow's reach is real and many clubs are glad of it. It is also worth being clear-eyed: the distribution model puts your tee times in front of golfers who belong to the marketplace, and reviews and ratings live on GolfPass. Caddyio has no marketplace to offer you — what it offers is that every member, visitor and round stays inside a system your club owns and brands.

Frequently asked

Is Caddyio a BRS Golf alternative?: For the member experience, yes — a branded member app on your own domain, live scoring and leaderboards, the on-course layer, coaching and shot tracking, plus a tee sheet, membership dues and a member purse. It is not a replacement for EPOS, and it has no equivalent of the GolfNow distribution marketplace. If your priority is selling visitor tee times through a national platform, BRS Core is the stronger fit.
Can we keep BRS Core for the tee sheet and use Caddyio alongside it?: Clubs do run a booking system and a member platform side by side, and everything Caddyio adds beyond the tee sheet — the wallboard, pace of play, on-course service, coaching, shot maps, stats, societies and the club feed — works whether or not members book through it. There is no live integration between the two today, so tee times would be managed in one place; talk to us about how that would look for your club.
Does Caddyio distribute tee times like GolfNow?: No. Caddyio has no tee-time marketplace and does not sell your inventory to a golfer network. Your tee sheet stays yours, which is the point for some clubs and a genuine gap for others.
Who owns BRS Golf?: BRS Core is the club-facing arm of the GolfNow business — its contact addresses are golfnowbusiness.com and its Distribution product is GolfNow — and its website now states the site is part of Versant. GolfNow lists 9,000+ courses on its tee-time platforms worldwide.
Does Caddyio publish official WHS handicaps?: No. Caddyio computes an indicative Handicap Index from members' rounds under WHS maths, for members to follow and export to your handicap secretary. The official record stays with your union-connected provider. BRS Core covers this through its Golf Genius, HandicapMaster and Club Systems integrations.
Does BRS Core offer coaching or shot tracking?: Neither appears anywhere in its published product range, which covers the tee sheet, member booking, memberships, payments, visitor booking, point-of-sale, off-course facility booking, competitions and handicapping, distribution and marketing. Coaching, shot maps and the live on-course layer are where Caddyio is doing something different rather than something better.