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How it works

A boundary, a phone that crosses it, and a card

There is no beacon to install, no camera, no wristband and no scanning. The course is a set of shapes on a map, the golfer’s phone reports where it is while they play, and everything else follows from those two facts.

  1. We draw the holes

    Your course is modelled once as a set of hole boundaries on a map. Tees, fairways and greens can be separate units, and a green can borrow the sponsor from its hole so nobody types the same address nineteen times.

  2. A golfer joins

    They install WilDi Golf and type the code from the tee sign, or scan the QR on it. Joining is where consent is given, and it carries a stated horizon: the event has a window after which the device stops being tracked for it.

  3. The phone crosses a boundary

    The app reports its position while the golfer plays. When a fix lands inside a hole, that hole's sponsor card is delivered to the phone. A phone off the property gets nothing.

  4. One card, once

    A golfer receives a given sponsor's card once, not on every fix and not on every lap. That is a hard constraint in the data, which is why the delivered count can never be inflated by someone lingering.

  5. The taps are recorded

    Call, website, email, directions and "I'm going" are each recorded separately, along with whether the message was opened and whether the phone was still on the hole a minute later.

  6. The visit is the proof

    The sponsor's street address is geocoded to a small map cell when the sponsorship is set up. If a phone that received the card later turns up in that cell, it is recorded as a visit to that sponsor.

What the golfer sees

Three screens, and that is the whole app

A golfer never has to learn anything. The hole they are on is the screen they land on, the conditions are one tap away, and check-in is a list of names.

The hole screen: a card headed Sponsored this hole with the sponsor's offer and a Call ahead button, and a Need something? row underneath.
The hole. The sponsor's card and the button that summons the cart.
The Today screen headed Three things to know today, listing hole 4 aerating, hole 12 cart path only and hole 15 closed, each with a note from the course.
Today. Only the holes that differ from normal are listed.
The check-in sheet listing roster names shortened to a first name and last initial, with an I'm not on the list option at the bottom.
Check-in. Names are shortened to a first name and an initial.

Check-in is only offered inside the course boundary, so a golfer cannot check in from the parking lot of another club. Names other attendees can see are a first name and a last initial, never the full roster.

What the course sees

A live count of phones, and a request that closes itself

The console tells you how many phones the geofence currently sees and which hole each is on. It does not tell you how many people are on your course, it will not predict when a hole will clear, and it does not guess. A system that guesses is a system a marshal trusts on the day it is wrong.

The console Summons tab: refreshment and assistance status cards, an empty Open list, and a Recent table of requests with states arrived, no answer escalated and cancelled, timed to acknowledge and to arrive.
Summons. Arrived is stamped when the responder's own phone is seen at the golfer's hole, never by tapping a button.

The weather layer is public precipitation imagery and National Weather Service warning polygons, each stamped with the time it was measured. It is not lightning detection, it is not a safety system, and nothing drawn on it is an all-clear.

See it on your own course

We will walk a real course in the console with you and show you the card, the conditions and the report end to end.

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