Fairway Alliance for municipal golf courses — local sponsors fund the technology
Your course sells hole sponsorships to local businesses, sets the price and keeps the sponsor relationships. In return the course gets the Aetheris product line: Cortex, course data, greens books, QR tee signs and a 3D course tour, for a set program fee.
Who is Fairway Alliance for?
New revenue without raising green fees or touching the operating budget. You sell the holes and set the price; the course gets management software, course data and pro-shop books it couldn't budget for.
Built for city-owned courses: one agreement with the course, sponsors from your own community, and a yearly report that shows each sponsor what their hole did.
What the course gets.
Cortex
Work orders, zone schedules, spray and fertilizer records and irrigation records on a 3D model of your course.
Course data
An Atlas base map set, irrigation mapping and a shade analysis from one survey visit.
Greens books for the pro shop
Custom yardage and green-reading books to sell in your pro shop.
QR tee signs
A sign on every tee with the hole layout and a QR code to that hole's fly-through and 3D green. We design it; you choose the sign maker.
Fly-throughs, 3D greens and a course tour
Every hole as an aerial fly-through and a 3D green, plus an online course tour for your website.
What each hole sponsor gets.
Their hole's tee sign panel
The sponsor's panel on the tee sign, seen by every group on that hole.
An ad in the greens book
A printed ad on their hole's page.
A digital ad behind the QR code
Shown when golfers scan the sign or the book.
A spot on the online course tour
Their name on their hole in the course's web tour.
A yearly sponsor report
Scans and clicks for their hole, once a year.
Community recognition
Their name on the local course, supporting the people who play it.
For local sponsors: ask about sponsoring a hole at your course →
How a program comes together.
Agreement
One agreement between the course and Aetheris.
Sponsors
The course recruits local sponsors with our recruiting kit and sets the price.
Survey and build
One visit: survey, irrigation mapping, shade analysis and video. Then we build everything.
Run the program
Signs go up, books go on sale, and sponsors get their yearly report.
Questions about Fairway Alliance
What is Fairway Alliance?
Fairway Alliance is a program that gives municipal golf courses modern tools, data, management systems and marketing tools, paid for through local community sponsorships instead of the operating budget.
Who is it for?
Fairway Alliance is for municipal golf courses, and for the tournaments they run, that want modern course tools without adding a line to the operating budget.
Who pays for it?
Local community sponsors pay for a Fairway Alliance program, under the program terms, instead of the course's operating budget.
Where do sponsors appear?
Fairway Alliance sponsors appear on the web course tour, on QR tee signs, on the 3D holes and in the greens books.
What do sponsors see?
Each Fairway Alliance sponsor gets a report of the QR scans and clicks on their placement.
Who keeps the sponsor revenue?
The course keeps the Fairway Alliance sponsor revenue, under the program terms.
What can the course and its sponsors expect?
Every Fairway Alliance program is scoped with the course, and sponsor terms and revenue are set in the program agreement. Sponsor reports count the QR scans and clicks on each placement; they don't promise a result. Course data comes from the drone survey and is for planning, not a survey of the course.