Golf courses by state
Connecticut Golf Courses & Tee Times
Connecticut claims the oldest state golf association in the country: the CSGA, founded in 1899, the same year the first Connecticut Amateur was played at Brooklawn. Yale student Thomas L. Cheney won it. The state's PGA Tour stop started in 1952 as the Insurance City Open and has been the Travelers at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell since 1984, though that club is private.
Tee times in Connecticut are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 66 public golf courses here, grouped into 4 markets: Connecticut, Southern New England, New England, Hudson Valley. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Connecticut golf markets
Who runs public golf in Connecticut
Public golf here is run mostly by cities and towns. Bridgeport's Fairchild Wheeler, built by WPA crews in 1932, was New England's first 36-hole muni. Hartford has Keney Park and Goodwin Park, Norwalk has Oak Hills, Stamford has Sterling Farms, and Fairfield has H. Smith Richardson. Each sells its own resident card. For juniors, Youth on Course costs $60 a year in Connecticut and gets $5 rounds at participating courses, with a CSGA handicap included.
Public courses worth knowing in Connecticut
- Wintonbury Hills Golf Course: Pete Dye design in Bloomfield; GolfPass Golfers' Choice 2025 #1 public course in Connecticut.
- Keney Park Golf Course: Hartford muni with a 1927 Devereux Emmet nine, restored and reopened in 2016.
- Fairchild Wheeler Golf - Black Course: Part of Bridgeport's 36-hole WPA-era muni, the first in New England.
- Oak Hills Park Golf Course: Alfred Tull design from 1967 in Norwalk.
- Tashua Knolls Golf Course: Hosted the 2017 Connecticut Amateur.
- Fox Hopyard Golf Club - Fox Hopyard: Hosted the 2019 Connecticut Amateur.
Booking tee times in Connecticut: the local rules
Booking is set course by course. Most munis give resident-card holders seven days, with the sheet opening early in the morning: 5 AM at Stamford and Fairfield. Oak Hills in Norwalk gives passholders nine days and the public eight. Rules as posted for 2026.
Yoink
The window opens once. Cancellations happen all week.
Booking windows decide who gets first pick. After that, times come back one at a time as plans change. Yoink watches all 66 courses in Connecticut and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Fairfield · 4
- Hartford · 3
- Middlefield · 3
- Farmington · 3
- Waterbury · 2
- Portland · 2
- Coventry · 2
- Hamden · 2
- New Haven · 1
- Stratford · 1
- New Milford · 1
- East Lyme · 1
- Colchester · 1
- Monroe · 1
- East Hartford · 1
- Wolcott · 1
- East Haddam · 1
- North Haven · 1
- Winsted · 1
- Southington · 1
- Naugatuck · 1
- Westport · 1
- Glastonbury · 1
- Norwich · 1
Getting a tee time in Connecticut
Golf in Connecticut follows the seasons: spring openers and fall weekends are the busiest stretches, and summer mornings fill before afternoons.
Most public courses open their tee sheet a set number of days ahead, often 7 to 14, and many municipal courses give residents or card holders an earlier window. The best weekend-morning times usually go the day they're released. Leagues and outings take blocks of the sheet before the public ever sees them.
A full tee sheet rarely stays full. Many courses let you cancel without a fee up to 24 or 48 hours before your time, so spots tend to reappear in the last couple of days. A bad forecast shakes more loose, and a foursome that drops to three opens a single. None of it is announced. The time just shows up again on the booking page, and whoever looks first gets it.
Yoink
All 66 courses in Connecticut, watched for you around the clock
Yoink watches all 66 courses in Connecticut for you. The open tee times sit in one place instead of a dozen booking pages, and your phone buzzes the moment one fits your day, time window and group, cancellations included.
Tee times in Connecticut: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Connecticut?
Pick your courses in Yoink (66 in Connecticut), set the days, time window and group size you want, and Yoink sends a notification when a matching time opens up. You book directly with the course.
When is golf season busiest in Connecticut?
Demand peaks on spring and fall weekends. Weekend mornings are the hardest tee times to get.
When do tee time cancellations usually show up?
Mostly in the 24 to 48 hours before the tee time, as golfers cancel ahead of the course's cancellation deadline, and whenever the forecast turns.
Sources
Facts on this page come from these pages, checked 2026-09-28. Rates and booking rules change, so confirm with the course.
- ctgolfer.com · media
- youthoncourse.org · association
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- fairfieldmuseum.omeka.net · media
- keneyparkgolfcourse.com · official
- wintonburyhillsgolf.com · official
- oakhillsgc.com · official
- sterlingfarmsgc.com · official
The best tee times in Connecticut open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.