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As a golfer who markets for a living, I have a couple of thoughts:
The overall concept is clear to me, solves for a genuine pain point, and is well explained.
However:
* It’s going to take a while to build organic search volume: things like “Pebble Beach tee times” are kinda competitive, while the lesser courses won’t have a ton of volume. Are you doing anything else to promote it?
* I ran the site through SEMRush, and found that you’re really only showing up for a handful of course names. (None in the top 50 positions, but that’s to be expected given that the site seems pretty new–you’re not starting out with any domain authority.) FWIW, I was initially confused by that b/c it didn’t look like there are any courses listed, until…see the next couple of points…
* The 3 boxes in the hero section (pick a course, set the details, wait for a ping) look like buttons that should be clickable, but aren’t.
* The scroll of states looks clean, but it’s not immediately obvious (even with the “click below” copy) that you should click those to learn more/check out your coverage, which at this point is your main proof point to get people to take a trial. As a Michigan resident, it took me almost 20 seconds from reloading the page to get my state to scroll by so I could check out what courses you have that I might have heard of/be interested in. Most people aren’t gonna stick around that long, and your drop-off rates will be higher for states that are further back in the alphabet.
* Putting the last 2 points together, I’d recommend rethinking that part of the page experience. As someone who sometimes crosses the border to other states for golf, I’d probably prefer a page with a view of all the courses available that I can just filter myself, rather than having to go back and select a different state to see what’s available there.
Hope that’s helpful – again, I think the idea has potential, and the golf booking space is both highly fragmented and massively infuriating to navigate, so I wish you luck in trying to improve it!
