The 6th Hole

Last night, we launched “Project Hogan” (we love code names). Other than a few Internet Explorer issues (if you’re using IE, please try Firefox), we think we’ve hit this one right down the fairway. With this update, Hole in 6 users can save their favorite golf courses and see their profile photos via Gravatar. A little about each below.

Golf Course Favorites
Golf Course Favorites are a great enhancement that makes the site much more useful. Why add golf course favorites?

First, favorites make navigating the site much easier. If you’re like us, you have a group of courses you like to see over and over again. Before favorites, you’d have to either conduct a course search or browse through the state and city before you can view the course you’re looking for. Now, under Browse, there is a convenient link to your favorite courses. This makes it easy as ever to see all your favorite courses at once.

The second reason to have golf course favorites is golf tournament searching. We’ve added a ton of extra power to tournament searches by integrating your golf course favorites right into the search page. If you’re logged in and have setup some golf course favorites, you can check one box and the golf tournament search will search all of your favorite golf courses. No more having to manually add all the courses you like into the “where” list unless you’d like to. This great new feature makes repeatedly searching your favorite local courses a snap.

Gravatar
Gravatar is an online service (free) that stores user profile photos. Why use a third party service instead of just building a photo upload ourselves? If you’re like us, you already have a million profile photos out there. I have a profile photo on Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, Plaxo, etc. It seems that every time you sign up for a new service, you need another profile photo. There has to be a better way. Gravatar has been around for a number of years and is widely used on blogs and forums around the internet. It seems like a perfect fit. If you’d like to see a profile photo and don’t yet have a gravatar, just visit their site and signup.

I hope all our users find these enhancements useful. I’ve been using favorites for the last week and it’s completely changed how I navigate the site. As always, let us know what you think.