We book with your tee sheet, not against it.
Birdie Booking submits a reservation for a golfer, on the golfer's own account, at the second your sheet opens — one request, one tee time, inside the rules you already set. This page is the whole of what we do and what we refuse to do, written for you rather than for them.
What this looks like from your side
A golfer who plays your course tells us the date and the window they would actually play. We work out when your sheet releases that date — from the booking window your own system publishes — and at that moment we submit their reservation through the platform you already use, signed in as them.
On your side, that is one reservation from one player, arriving the way it always did. Nothing about the booking is held by us, resold by us, or hidden from you. The only thing that changed is that your player did not have to set an alarm for midnight to make it.
We are not affiliated with any course, and we do not claim to be. We are not a reseller, and we take no cut of your green fee — golfers pay us a subscription for the automation, and pay you exactly what they would have paid anyway.
The rules we hold ourselves to
These are not marketing lines. They are the product's stated non-goals, they are the reason we think a course can live with this, and we would rather be held to them in public than explain them one email at a time.
We never hold or resell a tee time
There is no Birdie inventory, no marketplace, no markup. Every reservation is made on a golfer’s own account and stays theirs — you never have a transaction with us, only with your player.
One request, one reservation
We do not grab several slots so someone can choose later. A booking request produces one attempt at one reservation, and when a group already holds part of a slot our booking engine aborts rather than write over it.
We do not cancel for anyone
There is no automated cancellation and no book-now-decide-later. If a golfer needs to give a time back they do it with you, the way they always have.
We book inside your rules, not around them
Your advance window, your eligibility, your party sizes, your limits on how many rounds a player may hold — those are the rules we book within. We automate what your player could do by hand, at the moment they would have had to be awake to do it.
It is your player’s own account
The reservation is submitted with the golfer’s own login and their own membership or affiliation. If they could not book it themselves, we cannot book it for them either.
We sell the attempt, never a promised tee time
We do not promise a tee time and we do not sell one — what a subscriber buys is the attempt. When a race is lost the golfer is told why and the booking is credited back to their plan. Sheets are finite, and we would rather say so than sell around it.
What actually reaches your systems
The question operators ask first is usually about load, so here is the honest shape of it:
- We do not crawl your tee sheet. We calculate your release time from your published booking window and show up then. There is no polling loop watching for cancellations.
- One booking request is one submission. Not a burst, not a retry storm. If it fails for a reason worth retrying, the golfer's request is capped at a small number of attempts and then stops with an explanation.
- Each golfer has a ceiling. Every plan caps how many reservations a subscriber may hold at once and win in a month, precisely so no one can corner a tee sheet with a subscription.
- We check that we still work, quietly. A nightly health check signs in and reads availability at one course per booking platform — never making a reservation — so that a change on your side breaks our alerting before it breaks a golfer's morning.
If you would rather we did not
You did not ask to be on this site, and we would rather hear an objection early than argue about it later. If your course is listed and you would prefer it were not, tell us and we will take it off — the directory, the search, and the booking page. We do that first and discuss it afterwards, not the other way round.
A message on this topic goes straight to the person who runs Birdie Booking, and you will get a reply within one business day from a human. If you have a concern short of removal — a policy we have misread, a booking window we have wrong, a member rule we are not honoring — that is the more useful conversation, and it is the one we would rather have.
What we cannot do is stop your own members from booking their own tee times, by hand, with their own logins. That was always available to them. What we can do is stop automating it at your course, and that is what a removal means.
Where we would like this to end up
We are a small operation, and we are not asking you for anything today. But the honest ambition is to be a service courses are glad their players use: the midnight scramble is not good for golfers, and a tee sheet that fills with people who actually intend to play is not bad for you.
If that is a conversation you want to have — about listings, about what your members are asking for, about doing this with your blessing rather than merely within your rules — we would like to have it.
Our full terms and privacy commitments are public: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. How the product works for golfers is on the FAQ.