How to add an interactive course tour to your golf club website.
An interactive course tour goes on a web page the same way a video does: your provider gives you an embed snippet and you paste it in. The decisions that matter are where it goes, what it opens on, and how you will know it is working.
The short answer
Put the tour on the course page, where visitors already go to look at holes. Paste the embed snippet, an iframe, into an HTML or embed block. Make sure it loads only when scrolled to, check it on a phone, and decide what you will measure.
Where to put it
The course page is the natural home. A visitor there has come to see the holes and has time to explore one. If the site has a page per hole, each page can carry that hole. If it has a single course page, one frame on the signature hole does the job.
Think twice about the home page. A tour is something a visitor uses, and the top of a home page is usually read in a few seconds. A strong photograph with a link to the tour often serves the home page better.
It also earns a place wherever a golfer is about to commit: the visitor information page, a stay-and-play package page, a tournament or outing page.
How the embed works
The snippet is an iframe: a frame on your page that shows a page hosted by the tour provider. Your site needs nothing installed, and the tour updates on the provider’s side without you changing anything.
Most website builders have a block for it, usually called custom HTML, embed, or code. WordPress, Squarespace, and Wix all have one. If a club-industry vendor manages your site, send them the snippet and the page it belongs on.
Ask your provider what the snippet can be set to do. With Course Correct, a frame can open on a chosen hole, start with a guided tour and captions, or turn in a slow orbit. See interactive 3D course tours.
Keep the page fast
A 3D tour is heavier than a photograph. Two settings stop it from slowing the page.
Lazy loading
The frame should start loading only when the visitor scrolls near it, so everything above it appears first. The attribute is loading="lazy", and a good snippet already has it.
A fixed shape
Give the frame a set aspect ratio, such as 16:9, so the page does not jump when the tour appears.
Check it on a phone
Open the page on a phone before you announce it. The frame should fill the width of the screen and respond to touch. Make sure a visitor can still scroll past it: a frame that fills the whole screen can trap a thumb.
Write about the holes on the page itself
A search engine reads the page around the frame, not what is inside it. An embedded tour on an otherwise empty page gives a search engine nothing to index.
So write a short description of each hole next to its tour: the par, the yardages, what the tee shot asks for, where the trouble is. That text is what brings a searcher to the page, and the tour is what keeps them there.
Decide what you will measure
Before the tour goes live, pick the numbers you will look at in a month. Your own site analytics show visits to the page. The tour provider should show what happened inside the frame.
Course Correct reports which holes visitors explore, which tours they finish, and where they came from, and it separates visits that arrive through the embed on your site. The data is anonymous and collected without cookies. Our comparison of a flyover video and an interactive 3D tour covers what each format can tell you.
Questions about embedding a course tour.
Usually not. The tour comes as an iframe snippet that you paste into an HTML or embed block, which most website builders provide. If a vendor manages your site, send them the snippet.
If the platform lets you add an iframe or custom HTML to a page, yes. That covers WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and most club website systems.
Not directly. Search engines index the text on your page, not the content inside the frame. Write a description of each hole on the page itself, and let the tour hold the visitor once they arrive.
Not if the frame is lazy-loaded, which means it starts loading only when the visitor scrolls to it. The rest of the page then loads as it did before.
With Course Correct, yes. Each frame is set to open on a chosen hole, and it can start with a guided tour or a slow orbit.
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