Introducing Yards: The Official Golfer App Supporting Ohio Golf Courses

The Ohio Golf Course Owners Association (OGCOA) is excited to announce a partnership with Yards Golf, a new mobile app designed to help golfers play more often, engage with their favorite courses, and support the long-term success of Ohio’s golf industry.

Whether you’re a golf course operator, industry partner, or OGCOA supporter, this is a breakthrough worth knowing about.

🏌️‍♂️ Why Yards Matters

Yards is more than a tee time booking app. It’s a modern, mobile platform that makes golf more rewarding for players—and more profitable for courses.

With built-in games, GPS, digital scorecards, giveaways, and a social feed, Yards creates a connected, engaging experience for golfers of all ages. And unlike national booking apps that extract value from local golf courses, Yards gives it back.

It’s also the only golfer app that directly supports the Ohio Golf Course Owners Association—with a portion of each Ohio-based subscription reinvested into programs that benefit our members.

🤝 How the Partnership Supports OGCOA Members

This partnership gives OGCOA members—and the wider Ohio golf community—an opportunity to embrace innovation without giving up control. Here’s how it works:

• Courses can connect to Yards for free using existing tee sheets (Club Prophet, Club Caddie, foreUP, Lightspeed, or Quick 18)

• If a course uses a non-integrated or manual tee sheet, Sagacity Golf (parent of Yards) will supply a digital tee sheet at no charge

• Participating courses can post tee times, run giveaways, promote events, and engage golfers through the app’s built-in social features

• Courses earn $10 every time a golfer using their smart code subscribes to the annual Yards+ plan

🏞️ What Courses Can Do on Yards

Yards provides simple, high-impact tools to drive engagement, rounds, and revenue:

• 📣 Post to the in-app social feed—just like Instagram or Facebook, but for golfers

• 🎁 Run giveaways to reward loyal players and attract new ones

• ⏱️ List tee times, integrated with your existing booking engine

• 🛍️ Host a branded store with passes, gift cards, or promotional offers

• 💵 Earn referral revenue from golfers who upgrade to the annual Yards+ plan

• 🔗 Connect easily with no tech cost if using a supported tee sheet

⛳ What Golfers Get

Golfers use Yards because it makes every round more interactive and rewarding:

• 🏌️‍♀️ Play in-app games and earn “Yards” points every time they golf

• 🏆 Enter contests and giveaways with real prizes

• 📍 Use GPS and digital scorecards while playing

• 📅 Book tee times, manage buddy groups, and message friends

• 💳 Upgrade to Yards+ for perks like early booking windows and no booking fees

• ❤️ Support Ohio golf just by playing

🟢 Why It Matters to the Golf Industry

Every Yards subscription purchased in Ohio helps fund OGCOA’s work to support golf businesses across the state—including independent public courses, private clubs, and municipally run facilities.

This model flips the script: instead of charging courses access or participation fees or redirecting golfers to third-party marketplaces, Yards keeps the golfer-course relationship intact—and strengthens it.

OGCOA will reinvest Yards contributions into the advocacy, education, and resources that help our members succeed. That means better-run courses, more informed operators, and a healthier future for golf in Ohio.

🙌 What’s Next

We’re actively onboarding courses now. It takes less than 10 minutes to get started, and there’s no cost to connect if your course is using one of the five supported tee sheets.

If you’re a course operator, now is the time to join. If you’re a business partner or vendor, let’s talk about how Yards can help you reach Ohio’s most engaged golfers.

Together, we’re building something bigger: a platform that puts Ohio golf first.

Want to learn more or get your course listed?
Reach out to OGCOA or the Yards team today.