Gimmelab is a credit-based golf membership built for the player who loves the game without needing to perform it. No country clubs. No phone calls. No rack-rate anxiety. Just the game.
A "gimme" is a putt your playing partners concede because it's close enough. It's a small kindness at the end of a hole — a tiny moment of the game being generous to you instead of the other way around.
Golf doesn't feel that way most of the time. Rack rates climb every year. Booking a weekend round means twenty minutes on hold with the pro shop. Discount platforms train courses to dump inventory at a loss while golfers get bartered-off tee times at 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. The whole system rewards the people who already have memberships somewhere else.
We built Gimmelab for everyone else. One monthly subscription. Credits that refresh every month. Any partner course. Zero booking fees. Book in the app, show a QR at check-in, go play.
If you play more, you should save more. Flat-discount passes top out because nobody has any reason to go deeper. We fixed that with a subscription that rewards courses for offering better rates, not worse ones.
Every booking on Gimmelab pays the course in cash, not in exchange for free tee times. No Hot Deals. No discount races to the bottom. Course operators keep control of their inventory and their pricing.
Nobody should feel judged for what they shoot, what they wear, or how often they play. The best version of golf is the one where you just show up and tee it up. That's the only version we're building for.
We're launching in Philly. Not every metro at once, not a nationwide SaaS land grab. We want a course network that feels like your course network — the places you'd actually drive to on a Saturday morning.
We're a small team building something we believe in. If you want to partner a course, join the waitlist, write about us, or tell us we got something wrong, we want to hear about it.