We’ve all been there. You book a tee time for 4 people and either a.) someone backs out and you can’t find anyone or b.) you think that you can fill the slots and they don’t materialize. Either way, it sort of sucks.
In comes the BayAreaGolf Twitter bot that I mentioned in the previous post. The bot is designed to help people with an opening or two in their booking.
Setting up the BayAreaGolf bot is easy.
1.) If you don’t have a Twitter account, go get one.
2.) In your status field, type ‘follow bayareagolf’
3.) When you have an opening in your group, send a message to @bayareagolf – Include the course, number of openings, date and time
For example:
@bayareagolf Cinnabar Hills, 1 slot, 4/26, 7:20
4.) When you see something that works for you, send a direct message to the original sender.
Once an hour, the bot will compile all of the messages sent in and send them out.
What is the Bay Area? Great question. I kind of assumed that it would be San Francisco Bay but that is a bit vague. Pre-kids, I was willing to drive pretty far for golf. If I’m in San Jose, I’d drive to San Francisco to play at Presidio or to Monterrey to play any of those courses. I drive to Livermore and Pleasanton now, so I guess it should be anywhere in that triangle, but I don’t want to exclude Marin, which has some great courses too. I suppose if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and are willing to drive to a course, it is in the Bay Area.
