Golf courses by state
Delaware Golf Courses & Tee Times
Delaware golf has been organized since January 1952, when club representatives met at DuPont Country Club to form the Delaware State Golf Association. The DSGA has since merged into the Golf Association of Philadelphia, which now runs Delaware's state events, handicapping and course rating. The state's big events have been at private clubs: the McDonald's LPGA event at DuPont from 1987 to 2004, and the 2022 BMW Championship at Wilmington Country Club, the first PGA Tour event held in Delaware.
Tee times in Delaware are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 22 public golf courses here, grouped into 2 markets: Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth, Philadelphia. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Delaware golf markets
Who runs public golf in Delaware
There is no state parks golf system. Public golf around Wilmington comes down to a few daily-fee courses. Ed Oliver Golf Club, a par 70, sits on Wilmington Country Club's original site and is named for Ed "Porky" Oliver, the Wilmington caddie who won on the PGA Tour and finished second in the PGA, the Masters and the U.S. Open. Delcastle is an Ed Ault design from 1971. Rock Manor, where Blaise Giroso learned the game, was lengthened by Lester George to 6,405 yards. Down at the beaches, Bear Trap Dunes is near Bethany Beach. For juniors, the DSGA scholarship fund has awarded more than $1 million since 1986, and GAP runs Team Delaware.
Public courses worth knowing in Delaware
- Ed Oliver Golf Club: Named for Wilmington's Ed "Porky" Oliver, on the original Wilmington Country Club site. Wilfred Reid's layout was reworked by Alfred Tull and refined by Edmund Ault in 1971.
- Delcastle Golf Club: Ed Ault design, opened in 1971, par 72.
- Rock Manor Golf Course: One of the DSGA's founding clubs in 1952, since lengthened from 5,779 to 6,405 yards by Lester George. The clubhouse is a restored building from about 1921.
- Bear Trap Dunes Golf Club: Rick Jacobson design on dune terrain three miles west of Bethany Beach.
Towns with the most courses
- Wilmington · 4
- Middletown · 2
- Lewes · 1
- Long Neck · 1
- Ocean View · 1
- Bridgeville · 1
- Bethany Beach · 1
Getting a tee time in Delaware
The season in Delaware runs roughly from spring to late fall. The first warm weekends in spring and the cool, dry weekends of fall are the hardest to book.
Each course releases its tee times on its own schedule, commonly a week or two out, with residents of town and county courses often booking first. Leagues, outings and members claim chunks of the sheet in advance, and whatever prime weekend times are left tend to go on release day.
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
Every course in Delaware on one watchlist: all 22 of them
Pick the courses you'd play and Yoink keeps an eye on all 22 courses in Delaware. You see what's open in one place, and you hear about it the moment a time that fits your day, window and group turns up, cancellations included.
Tee times in Delaware: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Delaware?
Pick your courses in Yoink (22 in Delaware), 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 Delaware?
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.
- gapgolf.org · association
- gapgolf.org · association
- delcastlegc.com · course
- rockmanorgolf.com · course
- edolivergolfclub.com · course
- edolivergolfclub.com · course
- beartrapdunes.com · course
The best tee times in Delaware open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.