Intent parser
Turns one sentence into location, radius, date, time window, party size, budget and preferences.
North West pilot · Merseyside · Cheshire · Lancashire
ONE SEARCH.
Golf Metric searches every course in reach, checks real tee-time availability, price and playable weather, then books the round or the lesson. You ask once.
Try“Find me a tee time on Saturday between 8am and 11am, within 35 miles of Liverpool, under £60, with the lowest rain and wind risk.”Tee times near Liverpool, ranked by playable weather within 35 miles. Weather Score, less 0.6 points per mile, and every hard stop sinks to the bottom.
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Checking the weather for your window…
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0 courses within 35 miles
Tomorrow, tee 08:00 to 11:00. Each card carries its own forecast and live rain radar.Reading the forecast for every course in range…
Live maps centred on Liverpool. The white pin is your search; Windy’s own layer menu and legend sit inside each frame.
Wind gusts and direction
Live map by Windy.com
Satellite cloud from space
Live map by Windy.com
Rain radar live rainfall
Live map by Windy.com
Temperature air temperature
Live map by Windy.com
Course cards above carry their own rain radar, centred on the course. Street-level zoom and stacked layers need the full Windy site.
Lessons and caddies
Live hours published by coaches and caddies near Liverpool. You ask, they confirm.
Coach or caddie? Publish the hours you can take, free through the pilot.
Open your pro pageThe problem
Seven tabs.One decision.
The hard part is not finding a course name. Search engines do that. The hard part is assembling what you need to decide: which courses are genuinely available, when, at what price, and whether the weather will let you enjoy the round.
What you do todayWhat Golf Metric does
Find courses nearby
Maps and directories show courses, not the useful slot now.
Search a radius and only surface relevant options.
Check tee times
Availability is split across course sites and booking engines.
Aggregate permitted availability and normalise the slots.
Check the weather
A separate app, and a daily icon matched to a tee time by eye.
Weather Metric scores the actual playing window.
Choose a course
Price, travel, rain and wind compared by hand.
Rank by your priorities with the reasons shown.
Book
Hunt for the right page or phone the club.
Direct booking deep link, enquiry or approved contact workflow.
Book a lesson
Coach discovery and diary availability live apart.
Coaches, specialisms and open lesson slots in one search.
Weather Metric inside
Weather is the decision engine, not decoration.
A golfer choosing between 08:20 and 10:40 needs the conditions for those actual hours, not a daily icon. Weather Metric scores every tee-time window and says why, in plain English, next to the number.
86/100
Weather Score 86/100. Dry for most of the round, 9 to 14 mph wind, gusts below 20 mph, 14 C, good daylight buffer.
07:004%12°9 mph
08:006%13°10 mph
09:008%13°12 mph
10:0010%14°14 mph
11:0012%14°16 mph
12:0018%15°19 mph
13:0040%15°22 mph
14:0055%14°24 mph
15:0035%14°21 mph
16:0015%13°17 mph
17:0010%12°14 mph
18:008%11°12 mph
- RainScored
Probability, expected intensity and likely duration during the round window.
- Wind and gustsScored
Flags exposed conditions and strong gust periods. Course exposure later, if terrain data allows.
- Temperature and feels-likeScored
Comfort context and seasonal warnings.
- LightningHard stop
Hard safety alert. A high-risk period is never presented as a recommended slot.
- DaylightScored
Is a full round realistic before sunset, with a buffer.
- Recent rainfall and course conditionLater phase
Later: historic rain plus club-supplied status such as trolley bans or temporary greens.
How it works
One agent. Eight specialist tools.
One orchestrator calls specialist tools. You experience one intelligent golf agent; the back end stays modular, auditable, cheaper to run and easier to debug. Autonomy is added only where it adds measurable value.
Course discovery
Searches the course directory and the geospatial database.
Availability connector
Calls booking APIs, direct club feeds or permitted source adapters.
Weather tool
Asks Weather Metric for the conditions on every candidate slot.
Ranking engine
Scores options with explicit weights and hard constraints. Never a black box.
Coach search
Finds coach profiles, specialisms, price and diary slots.
Contact action
Prepares an approved enquiry or routes you to the booking destination.
Monitoring and cache
Tracks source freshness, failures, changes and request cost.
One ranked answer.
With the reasons shown, the source named, and a booking path on every line.
Two journeys
Play a round. Book a lesson. Same search.
The interface switches between a round and a lesson without pushing you into a separate product. Everything else stays out of the critical path.
Play a round
- 1
Enter a postcode or use your location. Pick a date, a time window, a radius, party size and an optional price limit.
- 2
Golf Metric finds the courses in range and requests current visitor availability from approved sources.
- 3
Weather Metric attaches the forecast to each exact tee-time window: rain, wind and gusts, temperature and daylight.
- 4
The ranking engine scores every slot against your priorities. The score stays explainable.
- 5
Book through an integrated path where one exists, follow a deep link, or send a structured enquiry to the club.
Book a lesson
- 1
Enter a location, a preferred day and time, a budget and what you want to work on: beginner, short game, putting, junior, driver or on-course.
- 2
Golf Metric finds coaches in range and shows verified profile information, specialisms, facilities and open slots.
- 3
Coaches publish availability through a lightweight diary, sync a supported calendar later, or use a booking link.
- 4
You book or send an enquiry. The coach receives a structured lead, not an unqualified message.
Availability
Built in layers, and honest about every slot.
Availability is the hardest part of the proposition. Golf Metric launches before it has a perfect national live feed, because every result states the freshness and the source of the slot. The layers get richer as partnerships land.
- 1Best at scale
Official APIs and distribution partnerships
Scale, stability, live inventory and compliant commercial use.
- 2Pilot ready
Direct club integration
The club publishes visitor slots to Golf Metric or grants an approved feed.
- 3Pilot ready
Permitted public availability indexing
Public booking pages where terms and technical controls allow it. Cached lightly, freshness shown.
- 4Always works
Booking deep links
Where availability cannot be imported, straight to the right club and date page.
- 5Human confirms
Structured enquiry agent
For clubs with no usable online inventory: a drafted enquiry with date, time, party size and contact details. A human still confirms.
The scraping rule
No bypassing logins, CAPTCHAs, anti-bot controls or paywalls. Ever.
Provider terms, robots directives, rate limits and data rights are respected. If a source does not permit automated access, Golf Metric deep-links or seeks a partnership instead. That keeps the business defensible and stops the product breaking every time a booking engine changes its markup.
Source shownChecked-at time shownRe-checked before hand-offProvider terms shown at booking
Coach marketplace
Lessons, the same way.
The same location-and-availability problem, with one difference: supply can be onboarded directly. Coaches publish open slots in a lightweight diary and receive qualified leads instead of unqualified messages.
- Profile: photo, club or facility, PGA status where verified, specialisms, experience, lesson types, facilities.
- Availability: publish open slots, set recurring hours, block time out. Calendar sync comes later.
- Lead quality: player level and goal captured before the enquiry reaches you.
- Weather aware: outdoor and on-course lessons are weather scored. Indoor bays are promoted when it pours.
30 min45 min60 minPlaying lessonBeginner sessionJunior lessonGroup lessonClub fittingSimulator session
J. Morgan
Short gamePuttingBeginnersJuniors
Published slots · this week
Sat 08:00Sat 09:00Sat 10:30Sun 09:30Sun 11:00Sun 14:00 indoor bayMon 17:30Tue 18:00
Lead: intermediate, 14 handicap, wants to stop thinning chips. Sunday morning preferred.
11,000lesson enquiries
192,000golfers engaged
PGA Play, the 12 months to May 2026, as reported by The PGA. Golfers already search online for local coaching. Golf Metric differentiates on availability, weather and one search, not on another listing.
The pilot
Starting where the courses are dense.
Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire first. A deliberately hands-on launch that builds a dense patch where a golfer regularly sees several credible options, not a thin national directory.
3counties
35mile radius
10-20pilot clubs and pro shops
20-40local coaches
- 01Build the course database: every course in Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire with coordinates, visitor policy, booking URL, provider and contact route.
- 02Recruit 10 to 20 pilot clubs and pro shops. Incremental visitor demand, no integration fee during the pilot.
- 03Recruit 20 to 40 local coaches and let them publish lesson slots free.
- 04Land the high-intent searches: golf tee times Liverpool this weekend, golf lessons near me.
- 05Cross-sell from Weather Metric: playable weather surfaces local availability, poor weather surfaces indoor coaching.
- 06Measure booking clicks, completed enquiries and repeat users before expanding a mile.
Schematic. Lime markers are the 31 courses in the pilot directory, approximate positions.
MVP must have
- Course directory for the three counties
- Postcode or current-location radius search
- Natural language search plus filters
- Weather Metric forecast on every tee-time window
- Price, distance, availability source and booking link
- Slot freshness timestamp on every result
- Coach directory with self-managed lesson availability
- Saved search and alerts for the slot you want
Phase 1.5 and later
- National coverage
- Drive-time radius, traffic aware
- Voice-first concierge
- Course condition from recent rainfall
- In-platform payment
- Real-time inventory where providers support it
- Calendar sync, programmes and lesson packages
- Waitlist and cancellation alerts, with your permission
Twelve weeks
From course list to soft launch.
The first release proves that golfers value the combined decision before anything is spent on national booking integrations. Twelve weeks, eight phases, one North West beta.
Weeks 1-2
Discovery and data map
Course list, booking-provider map, coach onboarding form, legal review, wireframes.
Weeks 3-4
Core search
Geospatial course search, filters, course pages, booking deep links.
Weeks 5-6
Weather Metric link
Slot-level weather, playability rules, the score and its explanation.
Weeks 7-8
Availability adapters
First approved connectors, cache and freshness logic, failure handling.
Weeks 9
Coach marketplace
Profiles, availability diary, lesson request and booking flow.
Weeks 10
Agent experience
Natural language parsing, orchestration, explainable ranking, query history.
Weeks 11
Pilot onboarding
Clubs and coaches on, real availability QA, analytics, feedback loop.
Weeks 12
Soft launch
North West beta. Measure, fix conversion blockers, choose the next integrations.
Business model
Free for golfers. Free for clubs and coaches through the pilot.
The commercial model is tested during the pilot, not fixed before it. Nothing creates friction for golfers until the product proves repeat use.
GolfersFree. Always free to search.
Clubs and pro shopsFree through the pilot, then a tested lead fee or visibility plan.
CoachesFree for early coaches, then a tested Pro profile once demand exists.
Tee-time referralPursued where a partner supports it. Not a launch dependency.
Featured placementClearly labelled, and only after the organic ranking is trusted.
Weather premium and club analyticsLater products, if the traffic earns them.
Pilot is judged onSearch-to-result success rateAvailability freshness when clickedBooking click-throughEnquiry completionRepeat use within 30 daysWeather-score interactionProvider failure rateCoach slot fill rate
Join the pilot
Be on the first tee.
The North West beta opens to a small group of golfers, clubs and coaches first. Say who you are and we will be in touch before the doors open.
Your golf, in one place.
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