Players 1st

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Overview

About Players 1st

Players 1st is a sports management solution tailored specifically for golf enthusiasts. Created by golfers, for golfers, the platform provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline player feedback, ensure personalized communication, and deliver actionable insights. Teams can elevate golf management strategy with precision analytics, performance tracking, and a suite of features designed to enhance every golfer's journey.

Players 1st Screenshots

Players 1st Features

Features of Players 1st
Customer Segmentation
Customizable Fields
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Data Visualization
Engagement Tracking
Negative Feedback Management
Real-Time Notifications
Reporting/Analytics
Survey/Poll Management

Players 1st Integrations

Club Caddie logo
Club Caddie
foreUP logo
foreUP
Lightspeed Golf logo
Lightspeed Golf
Golfmanager logo
Golfmanager

Customer Reviews

See why people love Players 1st

5 Star
60%
4 Star
0%
3 Star
40%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%

Jim B.

Verified User

Hospitality · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

University golf course review

Great information and a very helpful staff.

What they liked
  • It opens the door for the conversation on expectations regarding who you are as a facility and why
  • If you can control that narrative, you will have the ability to influence expectations and keep customers happier - even if they aren't going to be your everyday customer
  • They sift through the responses you get on your surveys and help you to prioritize your responses
Room for improvement
  • Nothing - it's an extremely valuable business tool
Why they chose it

"Troon recommendation for our survey solution"

Alex T.

Verified User

Hospitality · 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
Dec 22, 2025

Good product for Clubs

I am quite happy with the format. I believe the system is simple and simplifies processes.

What they liked
  • Format
  • Up to date data and easiness to set up presentations
Room for improvement
  • Log in format and time it takes to understand graphs
Why they chose it

"Troon recommendation and other references"

Tom S.

Verified User

Sports · 51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Not the right survey for public golf?

In general, I believe that Players 1st isn't the right fit for public/daily fee golf. 90%+ of our guests are NOT taking the survey. I think it is dangerous for a business to make business changing decisions based on results from such a small sample of their guests. Quantifying it with an NPS essentially distracts the businesses leadership to focus on the minority, which could be argued is a statistical an outlier. I think quantifying with NPS rated at 9+ places way too much emphasis a fraction of our guests.

What they liked
  • I like the dashboard site
  • To be able to aggregate all the results, dig in to it to see common themes/answers/words over time is helpful
Room for improvement
  • Perhaps Players 1st is an applicable platform for corporate business, but I don't think it is the right fit for public golf
  • 1) Players 1st survey is WAY too long of a survey for golf
  • Guests even comment about it but there isn't a way to shorten the survey to one that is adequate for golf
  • Why can't it be one question with optional follow-up questions
  • 2) It's ridiculous that guests can provide feedback anonymously
  • For this survey I'm taking right now, my contact has been required
  • Why can't that be the case for our guests
  • Requiring that places some responsibility/ownership on the guest for their comment
  • Many times, I would like to address their feedback but without their email, we are just a punching bag
  • Similarly, there are times the guest is actually flat wrong or at least can be recovered or expectations reframed
  • But without the info we just sit and watch our NPS suffer
  • (Ex: player rates us a 5 NPS and they played at 4:30pm on a Saturday in February and are complaining about not finishing in 3hrs
  • That expectation needs reset, and it shouldn't count against us in NPS) 3) There are some people who simply believe that "nothing can be a perfect 10
  • " Similarly, the nature of our property being a public facility brings with it a completely different customer outlook
  • (re: taxpayers are more critical/prone to complain about public workers/parks/roads/etc
  • ) For those reasons I think 9+ is not accurate to identify our true promoters here
  • 4) Only golfers with emails on the tee sheet get the survey link
  • However, golfer behavior globally is one person books the time for all 4 players
  • Thus, only one email is on the tee sheet
  • Collecting the email at the counter for all the players simply doesn't work, clogs up the check-in process for everyone and in fact pisses off the guests more, which will likely lead to a bad survey
  • 5) There is no way to administer the survey in our restaurant
  • When's the last time you gave your email to at a restaurant that doesn't take reservations
  • Our restaurant is open to the public and roughly 85% of our traffic are non-golfers, yet they can't get the survey

Kris S.

Verified User

Hospitality · 10000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Love our Players 1st Usage

Players 1st is a great partner and we are doing more with them then we ever have

What they liked
  • We like the automation Players 1st provides with getting real time customer feedback
  • Many of our operators are digging in to each review to "win their battles" one at a time
  • We do like the benchmarking both within our own company and amongst the industry
Room for improvement
  • I have been told by operators they wish to have a way to reply directly to Anounomous reviews
  • maybe do what UBER does and mask the email somehow
Why they chose it

"Customization. Integration with EZLinks, its at the right pricepoint and has benchmarking to measure against a good population of courses"

Scott A.

Verified User

Hospitality · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Seeing Results

Verified reviewer

What they liked
  • Ease of use
  • The automatic setup to send to our golfers saves us valuable time
  • Not to mention compiling all the results
Room for improvement
  • A suggestion
  • the comment feedback from our golfers is valuable and is best shared with our department heads
  • However, exporting a report with the comments is not possible
  • Or if it is, how to do that is not obvious

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