This partnership connects live tee time distribution across global trade channels with an AI layer that manages bookings, answers phones, and presents each course as a complete, intelligent travel proposition — from the inside out.
Zest Golf Technologies, the global API-driven golf distribution and DMC platform, and CourseRev.ai, the first and leading Voice AI and Agentic platform built specifically for golf operations, today announced a strategic commercial partnership that extends what both platforms do individually into something neither could offer alone.
The announcement marks a significant step in how golf courses and resorts can operate and distribute in an era where the expectations of golfers — and increasingly, the AI agents acting on their behalf — are outpacing the infrastructure most clubs have in place to meet them.
The Problem Both Companies Were Built to Solve
Running a golf course has always meant managing two things simultaneously: getting golfers through the door, and handling everything that happens when they try to get there. Enquiries, bookings, cancellations, rate questions, availability checks, no-show management — the administrative load on Pro Shop staff is constant, and the cost of missing a call or responding too slowly is a booking that goes elsewhere.
At the same time, the channels through which golf travel is bought are multiplying. Tour operators, OTAs, hotel partners, and now AI-powered travel platforms are all moving inventory — but only for the courses whose tee sheets they can actually reach. Most golf courses remain difficult to connect to at scale, with inventory scattered across systems that don’t talk to each other and commercial conditions that never make it cleanly into the channels doing the selling.
Zest was built to solve the distribution half of that problem. CourseRev.ai was built to solve the operational half. The partnership brings both solutions together, connected at the inventory layer, working from a single source of truth.
One API. Everything It Carries.
Zest operates as a single-API distribution hub connecting golf courses and resorts to global travel trade channels — tour operators, online travel agencies, and destination management companies — across more than 20 tee sheet integrations. Its platform delivers live availability and net rates to the professional travel trade, removing the fragmentation that has historically made golf travel inventory difficult to sell at scale.
But the Zest API carries more than tee times. It passes the full commercial and operational context of each course into every channel it connects — pricing rules, booking conditions, availability windows, distances to local hotels, transfer logistics, and the surrounding information a traveller needs not just to book, but to plan. Every club’s specific conditions travel with the inventory. What flows through the API is not a generic data feed. It is each course’s tee sheet as that club actually runs it, wrapped in the contextual intelligence that turns availability into a complete, bookable golf trip.
CourseRev.ai plugs into that layer directly. Because the integration with Zest is already built, a course connecting to CourseRev.ai does not need to rebuild its tech stack or re-enter its commercial conditions. Everything Zest already holds about that course — rates, rules, availability, context — flows automatically into the CourseRev.ai environment from day one.
What CourseRev.ai Does Inside Your Operation
For the course operator, CourseRev.ai functions as a full-time, always-on presence in the Pro Shop — one that never calls in sick, never puts a golfer on hold, and never misses an inbound call at eight o’clock on a Sunday morning.
Its Voice AI and Agentic platform handles the full range of operational communications: answering inbound calls and booking tee times directly into the tee sheet; responding instantly to website and chat enquiries about rates, availability, and events; sending automated reminders to reduce no-shows; managing waitlists; and handling cancellations and rebookings without involving staff. It operates in multiple languages — a material advantage for any course that draws international visitor traffic.
What Zest distributes externally, CourseRev.ai manages internally. The two systems share the same live inventory, the same pricing rules, and the same commercial conditions. A tour operator booking through a Zest-connected OTA and a golfer calling the Pro Shop directly are both working from the same tee sheet, in real time, with no risk of conflict or double-booking.
Built for the Golfer Who Never Lifts a Finger
The timing of this partnership reflects something broader happening across travel. The next generation of golfers will increasingly delegate the planning and booking of their trips to AI assistants — systems that research destinations, compare courses, check hotel distances, arrange transfers, and confirm bookings without the golfer opening a single app or making a single call. The golfer simply says what they want. The agent handles the rest.
For a course to appear in that process, it needs to be more than listed. It needs to be queryable, responsive, and contextually complete — able to answer not just whether a tee time is available on Saturday morning, but whether the hotel down the road is twenty minutes away, whether the transfer is included, and whether the package makes sense for a group of four.
The combination of Zest’s distribution infrastructure and CourseRev.ai’s operational intelligence is designed precisely for that standard. Courses connected through this partnership are not just reachable by today’s booking channels. They are structured, contextual, and AI-ready for whatever comes next.
Teemeup.AI: An Additional Demand Channel
CourseRev.ai’s golfer-facing platform — Teemeup.AI — extends the partnership’s reach directly to end consumers. A discovery and booking concierge that connects golfers with courses near them, Teemeup.AI offers courses on the Zest network priority listing as an additional demand channel at no extra distribution cost.
Voices from the Partnership
“We built Zest to make it effortless for courses to reach golfers across every channel. One connection, and the distribution takes care of itself. This partnership with CourseRev.ai extends that logic inward — so the same intelligence that powers a course’s external distribution is also managing what happens when a golfer picks up the phone or lands on the website. For operators, it means one source of truth, no conflicts, and a course that’s genuinely ready for the way golf travel is about to be bought.”
Jo Maes, Co-Founder, Zest Golf Technologies
“With a significant team based in Europe and growing interest in CourseRev.ai’s products and solutions in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, it was key to partner with established companies that have market presence. Courserev has already been working with Zest for the past year, and it was time to take this partnership to the next level, where Zest will represent Courserev in the European market.”
Manna Justin, CEO and Founder, CourseRev.ai
Partnership Terms and Scope
The initial partnership operates across the EMEA region, with a focus on European golf destinations currently within or being onboarded to the Zest distribution network. The two companies will collaborate on joint operator outreach, co-marketed distribution packages, and the development of integrated product features designed to serve both existing and prospective golf course partners.
Golf courses and resorts interested in joining the distribution network or learning more about the partnership are invited to contact either company directly.
About Zest Golf Technologies
Zest Golf Technologies is a global API-driven DMC and golf distribution platform connecting golf courses and resorts to global travel trade channels — tour operators, OTAs, and DMCs — through a single integration. With more than 20 tee sheet integrations and a growing accommodation layer, Zest enables operators to distribute live inventory to the professional travel trade at scale. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Zest operates across Europe and beyond. Learn more at zest.golf
About CourseRev.ai
CourseRev.ai is the leading AI Solution provider in the Golf industry providing golf courses and operators with solutions such as Voice AI, Chat Agents, Waitlist, Confirmations,Reminders, Advanced Web Booking and Revenue management solutions.