GolfHub announced that it had officially gone mobile.
The site had already been sending me tee-time alerts around Colorado. Now the search was supposed to fit on a phone. The announcement described finding an opening, checking a course, and making a reservation without being at a computer.
The feature was focused on available tee times. A person away from a desktop could check the inventory before the time passed. The email did not say that I had used the mobile site or booked a round.
The announcement itself was a large HTML message. It used table layouts, inline styles, image URLs, navigation links, and support links. Much of the visible copy depended on images loading from GolfHub's servers. The plain-text idea was much shorter: the tee-time service now had a mobile version.
The site had my email because I was receiving Colorado tee-time alerts. Those alerts and the mobile announcement were separate messages from the same service. An alert could say that a time was available. The mobile site was supposed to give somebody a way to act on it away from a computer.
I had not replied to the announcement. There was no receipt, reservation, course name, or tee time attached to it. I also did not have a price for the mobile feature in the text that arrived.
GolfHub had made the feature public and sent the news to its mailing list. That is what reached my inbox: a mobile launch, a pile of HTML, and no round booked.