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Why Golf Planning Broken and How We Fixed It.

Every year, 12 million U.S. golfers travel to play in tournaments, yet the experience of planning for the trip is the opposite of enjoyable. With more than 100,000 golf events held annually and no central platform to search them all, players and families spend an average of 4.7 hours researching and planning every single tournament.

The result: 65% of tournament golfers report dissatisfaction with current planning resources—leading to frustration, wasted money, wasted time, and missed deadlines.

Hubble.GOLF solves all of these challenges. Launching today, the new all-in-one platform unites tournament discovery, travel booking, budgeting, and team coordination into a single, seamless experience.

Hubble Makes Golf Planning Easier for Everyone Involved in Competitive Golf.

  1. Parents of Junior Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps parents of junior golfers create itineraries, organize travel, build a smart budget, and track their child’s development all in one place.
  2. Adult Amateur Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps adult amateur golfers locate events that fit their schedule, score the best deals on tournament hotels, and stay on budget.
  3. Golf Coaches and Instructors
    Hubble.GOLF helps golf coaches and instructors coordinate team schedules and logistics with ease, communicate with players and parents, search for tournaments, and track player development.
  4. Tournament Directors and Organizers
    Hubble.GOLF helps tournament directors and organizers do away with outdated planning methods, ensure smooth registration, and gain access to a larger, more connected community of players and fans.

Everything You Need, All in One Place

1. Comprehensive Tournament Discovery

Gone are the days of bookmarking dozens of different tournament websites. Our database contains thousands of tournaments nationwide, from local junior golf events to major amateur championships. Search by location, date, age group, or skill level and find exactly what you’re looking for in seconds.

For junior golf families, this means no more missing registration deadlines or overlooking perfect developmental opportunities. For competitive amateurs, it means discovering events you never knew existed. Our golf tournament platform centralizes what used to be scattered across countless websites, email lists, and word-of-mouth recommendations.

2. Intelligent Itinerary Planning

Building a tournament schedule used to mean juggling spreadsheets, calendars, and sticky notes. Now, you can create comprehensive itineraries that include tournaments, travel time, and family commitments. Everything syncs seamlessly across your devices, so you’re never double-booked again.

Parents managing multiple junior golf schedules will especially appreciate having all tournament information centralized in one place. Share schedules with coaches, family members, or carpool partners with ease. You can view travel time between events, helping you plan realistic schedules that don’t leave players exhausted before they even reach the first tee.

3. Integrated Travel & Booking

Why visit multiple websites to plan one tournament trip? Book hotels directly through Hubble, often with exclusive discounts negotiated specifically for our golf community. We’ve partnered with major travel providers to make tournament travel simpler.

As we continue to expand our travel integration features, we’re working to add flight and rental car booking capabilities, along with enhanced preference tracking to make your tournament travel planning even more seamless.

4. Cash Caddie: Your Financial Command Center

Tournament golf can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be mysterious. Our Cash Caddie feature helps you track expenses, monitor budgets, and even calculate mileage for tax purposes. Finally, you’ll have clear visibility into the true cost of competitive golf.

For junior golf families making significant investments in their young athlete’s development, this transparency is invaluable. Track everything from entry fees and travel costs to equipment expenses and coaching investments. Generate reports for tax preparation, college scholarship applications, or simply understanding where your tournament budget actually goes. Set spending limits by category and receive alerts before you exceed them.

5. A Community That Gets It

Connect with other golfers, parents, and coaches who understand the unique challenges of tournament life. Share course-specific insights, get advice on navigating college golf recruitment, compare notes on training approaches, and build relationships that extend far beyond the 18th hole.

Our community features include tournament-specific discussion threads where players share local knowledge about courses, lodging recommendations from families who’ve been there before, and even carpooling coordination for regional events. For junior golf development, parents can connect with others at similar stages of the journey, sharing both the victories and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Built by Golfers, for Golfers

Our team includes competitive players, tournament parents, and coaches who’ve experienced every scenario you can imagine. We’ve missed registration deadlines, booked hotels in the wrong city, and showed up to tournaments unprepared. Those painful lessons became the foundation for every feature in Hubble.

We didn’t just build software – we solved problems we’ve actually lived. Every feature exists because someone on our team has a story about needing exactly that tool at exactly the wrong moment. That lived experience shapes not just what our golf tournament platform does, but how it works and what it prioritizes.

What's Coming Next?

This launch is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you’ll see expanded tournament coverage, enhanced community features, and tools that make competitive golf even more accessible. We’re exploring partnerships with golf academies, junior golf organizations, club manufacturers, and tournament organizers to create an even richer ecosystem.

Features in development include performance tracking tools that help players identify strengths and improvement areas across multiple tournaments, enhanced coach collaboration tools for team management, and integration with popular golf GPS and stat-tracking apps. We’re also working on scholarship resource centers specifically for families navigating the junior golf to college golf pathway.

Most importantly, we’re listening. Your feedback drives our roadmap, and every feature request gets serious consideration from our development team. As competitive golfers and tournament parents ourselves, we know the platform is never truly “finished” – it evolves as the needs of the competitive golf community evolve.

Join the Revolution

Competitive golf has been stuck in the past for too long. Scattered information, manual processes, and disconnected systems have made tournament golf harder than it needs to be. Hubble changes that equation.

Whether you’re a junior golfer chasing college scholarships, a parent managing multiple kids’ tournament schedules, or a coach working with an entire team, our golf tournament platform was built with your specific challenges in mind. We understand the unique demands of competitive golf because we live them alongside you.

Ready to Simplify Your Golf Life?

Creating your Hubble account takes less than two minutes, and you can start exploring tournaments immediately. No long learning curves, no complicated setup processes – just powerful tools that work the way you think.

Welcome to Hubble.GOLF. Welcome to the future of competitive golf.

Ready to get started? Sign up for your free Hubble account today and discover what organized tournament golf feels like.

Have questions about Hubble or ideas for future features? We’d love to hear from you. Connect with our team through the community section or reach out directly – we read every message and we’re genuinely excited to hear how we can make this golf tournament platform even better for you.

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Putting. It’s arguably the most critical part of every golfers’ game. What’s the line? Should I try and hit it harder to take the break out …

27 Comments

  1. @arnoldvongvirath1088

    John Daily commented is kind of unprofessional, you are playing for the big pay-check and you are top world ranking suck it up and finish your jobs, faire or unfair who cares?

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  2. @taylormit

    They also make 99% inside 6 feet.

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  3. @zsommers1

    LOVE Golf digest giving away all the secrets!!!

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  4. @blakephillips8688

    Is it just me or does the 10 min video not really tell us much. Except for “over reading putt” which doesn’t even tell us how to over read putts”. They are like yeah they have to put good and only miss it by 2 ft so they don’t miss by 6ft because that’s their strategy. Ohhh I get it their strategy is to play good golf ?? Dangggg I wish I would’ve thought of that. I’m going to start magically reading putts now. And they didn’t really even really tell us what was Payne Stewart’s strategy. All they said was get close to the hole. Like duhh okay don’t we all

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  5. @DrMaccers

    "Harman at the European Championship" You mean The Open?!

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  6. @shortexposureastrophotogra4988

    They didn't mention the rainsuit Payne Stewart was wearing when he won the 1999 US Open. He cut the sleeves off so it didn't interfere with his swing.

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  7. @slurma

    Who's here after seeing Bryson win for Payne

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  8. @12mmratchet84

    Avoiding a 3 putt is easy if you just do it in 5

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  9. @RanceMcManus

    Have hours per week to practice putting.

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  10. @JD-ev1uj

    You practice. That's how.

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  11. @nothingtoseehere293

    Bryson didn't cry last year and won. Pinehurst is hard. You're a pro. That's why you play there😅 Pinehurst exposes players time and time again.

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  12. @LeroyYue

    "High and soft" – took me a while to figure out what it means.
    Miss on the high side. In order to do that, must hit softer.
    Correct?

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  13. @touristguy87

    Wow and to think that I have never played Pinehurst and knew already how to play it

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  14. @andy.robinson

    How can a course be setup "unfairly"? It's difficult for everyone, so what am I missing?

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  15. @dickyhoey

    That’s ok in theory. Pinehurst isn’t normal. There is a landing area where the hole may or may not be. Any other area on the green makes your ball roll off. It’s like an irregular plate upside down. Anything outside the landing area of the green will roll off the green.

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  16. @TheCajunAsian

    LMAO because they are better than you, it's pretty simple… And amateurs some take enough putting lessons because they disrespect the concept over say hitting a driver 300 yards

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  17. @goffadventure

    I’ve never understood why some players think it’s 'unfair' if they don’t play well on a certain course. I mean, everyone in the field has to play the same course.

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  18. @Whatujustsay

    Nah my chip game on the green gets me closer then my putter ever can

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  19. @douglasolsson7768

    All my friends under read putts. I tend to over read but it ends up close.

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  20. @JimEngland-i9b

    Wouldn’t you prefer to be below the hole for uphill putt vs downhill?

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