MajorCompanion
A live second-screen companion for the four majors — pick the players you actually care about and get push alerts only when they birdie, bogey, or chase a record, plus a private chat for your fantasy squad.
Die-hard golf fans who follow a specific set of players across all four majors
- Pick your 5-10 watched players — push notifications fire only on birdies, bogeys, eagles, or milestones
- Wind-adjusted 'expected score' overlay so a leaderboard move is contextualized against conditions
- Private fantasy group chat with friends, auto-scored by AI from real-time play-by-play feeds
- End-of-round AI recap that contextualizes each player's score (e.g. 'Herbert's 28 was 2.3 strokes better than the field given morning calm')
Lucas Herbert's record-tying 28 made The Open the top search in golf; fans are refreshing generic leaderboards when what they want is a personalized, narrative-rich feed.
Die-hard golf fans clearly want per-player live updates — ShotAlert ships this exact feature set and the PGA Tour app offers personal alerts — but demand is gated to ~16 days/year of major play, making the addressable market narrow.ShotAlert - PGA Tour SMS Alerts ↗PGA TOUR Mobile App - PGATOUR.COM ↗
ShotAlert already delivers hole-by-hole birdie/bogey/streak alerts for individual players at $4.99–$14.99/mo; PGA Tour app has personal alerts; Better Than Most, PGA TOUR Fantasy, Masters Fantasy and The Open Fantasy cover the squad-chat/fantasy angle — MajorCompanion is a feature subset, not a category.ShotAlert - PGA Tour SMS Alerts ↗Better Than Most - Fantasy Golf App for PGA Tour Picks ↗
Willingness to pay is proven (ShotAlert Plus $4.99/mo, Pro $9.99/mo, Max $14.99/mo with paying users), but restricting to four majors caps subscription utility to a few weeks per year — meaningful churn risk.ShotAlert - PGA Tour SMS Alerts ↗
The four majors are a durable, century-old tentpole property with recurring emotional spikes (Herbert-type records, Tiger comebacks) and predictable four-times-a-year engagement cadence.The Open Fantasy | The 154th Open Fantasy Game | Royal Birkdale ↗
SMS/alert plumbing is commodity and shot-data feeds (PGA Tour ShotLink / Datagolf) exist, but licensing real-time per-shot data, H2H probability models, and a polished fantasy chat all together is a multi-month build, not trivial.ShotAlert - PGA Tour SMS Alerts ↗