Club manager
How to put live club data on your website
By Caddyio · Updated
Most golf club websites are static pages that go stale within a week: opening times that are wrong, a course-status line nobody updated, and no sign of the competition that finished yesterday. The fix is not a new website — it is embedding the few things that change from the system that already knows them, so they update themselves.
- Pick the things that actually change Course status, tee-time availability, range and simulator availability, and live competition standings. Everything else on a club website is fine as a static page. Embedding only what changes keeps the job small.
- Put course status on the homepage It is the single most-asked question a club website gets, especially in winter. A visitor who cannot tell whether you are open assumes you are not.
- Show availability, not a booking form Availability on the public site with a link into the member area is the right split. A booking taken from an anonymous public page cannot be priced correctly, cannot apply your rules about who may book, and gives you no way to chase a no-show.
- Embed rather than copy Anything typed into two places will be wrong in one of them. If your greenkeepers publish a notice in one system, that same notice should be what the website shows.
- Check it on a phone Most club website traffic is mobile, often from a car park. A widget that needs sideways scrolling is a widget nobody reads.
- Keep it fast One script and a target element. If adding live data to your website requires a developer and a rebuild, it will not get done and it will not get maintained.
Frequently asked
- Can we show live tee-time availability on our own website?
- Yes, and availability is the right thing to show publicly. Completing the booking should happen signed in, because a booking taken from an anonymous page cannot be priced correctly or checked against your rules.
- How do we keep our website's course status up to date?
- Stop typing it twice. Have the website read the same notice your greenkeeping team already publishes, so one update reaches the app, the first tee and the site.
- Do we need a developer to add live data to a club website?
- You should not. A single script tag and a target element is enough for a leaderboard, availability or course status; anything requiring a rebuild will not be maintained.
Caddyio publishes read-only endpoints and a drop-in embed for live leaderboards, tee-time availability, range and simulator availability and today's course status including greenkeeper notices. The public endpoints need no API key, so a static club site can use them.