Golf Course Flyovers

What Golf Course Flyovers does

Golf Course Flyovers is a Chicago-based drone videography firm that produces aerial content exclusively for golf courses. Its core deliverable is a hole-by-hole drone flyover — a narrated aerial tour of every hole on a course — packaged with custom QR codes that link physical course signage to the hosted video. All pilots hold FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification, which is the regulatory requirement for commercial small-unmanned-aircraft operations in the United States.

The company extends its offering beyond flyovers into adjacent creative services: on-ground photography, promotional commercials, and social media asset packages. Distribution occurs through Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn, where the portfolio of completed flyovers functions as prospecting material. The product architecture is operationally simple — aerial capture, post-production editing, and QR-code-integrated hosting — and the firm operates across the continental United States from a single Chicago base, suggesting a travel-intensive delivery model.

Commercially, Golf Course Flyovers is a private, self-funded professional services business with no disclosed investors, parent company, or funding history. Revenue is project-based, with engagements sold directly to golf clubs and resorts. Named public clients include Grand Geneva Resort & Spa, Ivanhoe Club, Legacy Hills Golf Club, Hawk's View Golf Club, The Royal Fox Country Club, and Willow Hill Golf Course. The go-to-market is sales-led, relying on portfolio demonstration and direct outreach rather than self-serve channels.

Name

Golf Course Flyovers

Legal name

Golf Course Flyovers

Website

https://golfcourseflyovers.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Golf Course Flyovers is a Chicago-based FAA Part 107 certified drone videography firm that produces hole-by-hole aerial flyovers, photography, and social media content for golf courses and resorts across the continental United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aerial Videography Services

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Golf Courses & Golf Facilities (MPAKAEAD)

Keywords

• Drone videography services
• Aerial course marketing
• Golf course filming
• Drone aerial photography
• Video marketing content

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Drone Videography Services: One-time project-based services for golf courses including hole-by-hole drone flyovers, photography packages, and commercial video production. Quoted as flat rates that include on-site crew time (4+ hours), flight expenses, and one round of revisions. Additional add-ons include professional voiceovers, animated motion graphics, photo packages, and social media assets.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Golf Course Flyovers is a drone videography service that captures hole-by-hole aerial flyovers of golf courses using FAA Part 107 certified pilots and delivers finished marketing videos to golf course operators. The core offering combines on-site drone filming with post-production editing, optional voiceovers, 3D motion graphics, yardages, and logo animations, and is paired with a QR code system that links a branded mobile webpage to the videos for on-course viewing.

Product overview

Golf Course Flyovers is a drone-based video marketing service for golf courses, offering a core flyover product with optional add-on modules. The flagship product is "The Flyover" — hole-by-hole drone tours accessible via a QR code integration system. Additional add-ons include Photography (aerial/ground photos), Commercials (2-3 minute promotional videos), and Social Media Assets. The workflow involves four steps: gathering course details, selecting add-ons, scheduling an on-site drone shoot, and receiving finished videos within two weeks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Flyover Hole-by-hole drone flyover videos of a golf course, captured on-site by FAA Part 107 certified pilots, finished with optional professional voiceovers, 3D motion graphics, yardages, and logo animations, and delivered within 1–2 weeks for use in course marketing and on-course QR code viewing.
• Photography High-resolution aerial and ground photography packages that capture a golf course in optimal lighting conditions for marketing collateral, websites, and print materials.
• Commercials A 2–3 minute promotional video showcasing a golf course and its amenities, produced with licensed background music for use in marketing campaigns and digital channels.
• QR Code Integration A mobile-friendly branded webpage linked to QR codes that golfers can scan on carts or scorecards to view hole-by-hole drone flyovers during their round at the course.
• Social Media Assets Social media content packages derived from drone footage, provided to golf courses for promoting their flyover content across digital channels.

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Matterport: A digital twin and 3D virtual tour platform widely used in real estate, hospitality, and commercial property marketing. Comparable as an adjacent player offering branded, mobile-accessible, code-scannable visual experiences for physical venues — a category philosophy similar to Golf Course Flyovers' QR-code integration, though applied to indoor/ground spaces rather than aerial golf.
• Arccos Golf: A golf technology company offering GPS rangefinder, shot tracking, and AI-powered golf performance tools. Comparable as an emerging golf-tech player building digital, mobile-first experiences layered on top of the on-course golfer journey — a closely adjacent category to Golf Course Flyovers' QR-coded on-course content.

Broad incumbents

• Skyward (a Verizon company): A drone operations management and airspace platform for enterprise and commercial drone programs. Comparable as a broad-based incumbent serving the same Part 107 commercial drone services ecosystem in which Golf Course Flyovers operates.
• DJI: The dominant global drone hardware manufacturer whose prosumer and enterprise platforms are the de facto equipment used by virtually every FAA Part 107 commercial drone operator. Comparable as the upstream incumbent whose technology stack Golf Course Flyovers is built upon.
• DroneDeploy: A leading drone data platform providing flight planning, capture, mapping, and processing software for commercial drone operators. Comparable as adjacent infrastructure used by professional drone service providers to run and scale aerial data capture projects.
• PrecisionHawk: A commercial drone services and analytics company serving industries such as energy, agriculture, and infrastructure. Comparable as a broad-based drone services incumbent that uses Part 107 certified pilots and vertical-specialized aerial capture workflows, though at much larger scale and across different verticals.
• Pix4D: A drone photogrammetry and mapping software suite used by commercial drone operators to process aerial imagery into measurable, shareable outputs. Comparable as an incumbent enabling layer in the drone videography/marketing services value chain.
• Golf Channel / NBC Sports: The dominant golf-focused media brand producing video content, tournament coverage, and course features. Comparable as a broad incumbent in golf video content whose editorial drone footage of golf courses overlaps thematically with Golf Course Flyovers' course marketing content, though at a vastly different scale and audience.

Others

• Houses.com: A residential real estate marketing and listing platform that increasingly bundles aerial and 3D visual assets into property listings. Comparable as a downstream ecosystem participant consuming drone videography services for property marketing, representing an adjacent commercial customer category for the same underlying capability Golf Course Flyovers provides.

Direct peers

• FlyGuys (formerly DroneBase): A national drone service marketplace and operator network providing on-demand aerial videography and photography across multiple verticals. Comparable to Golf Course Flyovers as a directly competing drone-as-a-service provider delivering project-based aerial content to commercial customers, though operating across broader verticals rather than specializing in golf.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC8x6ZMsXgQT_pysQESI4S5A
• Facebookfacebook.com/golfcourseflyovers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/golf-course-flyovers
• Instagraminstagram.com/golfcourseflyovers

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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