After months of building, testing, arguing about button colours, and pretending we understood database migrations, we finally did the thing The Birdie Club was actually built for. We played golf.
Alder Root Golf Course got the honour. A proper little nine-holer tucked away near Warrington with tree-lined fairways, a few water hazards to keep you honest, and enough character to make you want to come back. Exactly the kind of course where you'd take your mates for a midweek knock.
Full Birdie Club polos. Green caps. The lot. If you're going to test your own app in the wild for the first time, you might as well look the part.
We had the GPS tracker running the whole way round, logging every step. The live scoring worked exactly how it should. Tap your strokes, see the leaderboard update, move on to the next hole. No paper scorecards, no arguments about whether it was a 5 or a 6.
The course was in brilliant nick for early April. Blue skies, barely a breath of wind. One of those days where you remember why you put up with all the cold wet ones that came before it.
Not every shot was pretty. There was at least one recovery from the trees that we'll be talking about for a while. But that's golf, isn't it? The bad shots are just as much part of the story as the good ones.
The best bit? It all just worked. The app, the scoring, the GPS. We built this thing to make golf simpler, and out on the course, that's exactly what it did. No faffing about. Just golf.
And then, obviously, the most important part of any round.
The 19th hole. Non-negotiable.
This is what The Birdie Club is about. Three brothers, a mate, and a couple of believers who backed the idea. We're not a tech company that picked golf as a market. We're a group of lads who saw a problem and decided to fix it.
First round done. Many more to come. See you out there.
Want to play with us? Post a game and we might just turn up.
