Most clubs do not lack facilities.
They lack new players who continue after the first year — and it is not their fault.
Golf is a sport that requires patience and perseverance before it truly becomes enjoyable.
Without structured guidance, 80% of beginners quit within the first year.
With the support of a golf instructor, 80% are still playing after 5 years. Our survey confirms it.
The main challenge is therefore convincing hesitant people to start with the help of a good guide in order to quadruple their retention rate.
This is where Presto Golf comes in.
Your club does not need to change its current operations
What we take care of
- promotion and participant registration
- training and supervision of assistants
- group supervision
- communication with participants
- respecting agreed areas and schedules
What is not required from your club
- no promotion required
- no client management
- no group organization
- no administrative follow-up
Our participants become your customers and fill your available tee times
We train players able to play without affecting course pace.
Where slow play really comes from
On a golf course, pace of play is not mainly related to skill level.
It is related to hesitation.
A player can hit imperfect shots and remain fluid.
Conversely, a decent player can slow the group if they do not know exactly what to do between shots.
Most delays observed on a course do not come from supervised beginners.
They generally come from occasional players who never learned how to move and behave on a course.
In other words: it is not the guided beginner who causes pace-of-play issues.
It is the player left on their own.
A measurable impact from the first season
A standard teaching facility can offer about 20 to 40 beginner groups per season.
With 6 students per group, that represents between 120 and 240 new golfers introduced to your environment in a single year.
These are people who, without guidance, would almost never have joined a golf club and would have quit during the first season.
What this means for your course
Concretely, these new players fill the driving range during weekdays.
They return regularly.
They discover the course progressively.
They purchase on site.
They come back the following year.
They feed future leagues when applicable.
You are not just getting new customers the first year.
You are building your next generation of players.
Without disrupting your operations
The program is designed to integrate into a club’s reality.
Activities mostly take place during off-peak hours.
Students are guided and prepared before their first rounds.
They learn pace of play and etiquette fundamentals.
They do not enter the course unprepared.
The objective is not to occupy your course.
The objective is to prepare future autonomous players who will not slow play.
Why it works
Most new golfers quit because they remain alone with fragmented advice.
They hit balls but do not know how to play.
They try but do not understand what is happening.
They hesitate to go on the course.
The program fills precisely the gap between initiation and real play.
We are not only teaching a swing.
Estimate for your course
This simple estimate helps visualize the potential impact of a structured beginner onboarding program.
Let’s talk
If you simply want to offer lessons, a golf professional can do that.
If you want to sustainably create new players for your club, the structure must be different.
That is precisely what we implement.
If you are wondering whether this could work at your course, let’s speak for a few minutes and you will quickly have your answer.
Pierre Duchesne, CEO of Presto Golf
514-909-0152