Golf courses by state
Indiana Golf Courses & Tee Times
Indiana's golf association is older than most. Francis Herd of the Country Club of Indianapolis called the meeting in 1900 that formed the Indiana Golf Association, and it held the first State Amateur that October at his club. Harry Miller of Terre Haute won. The state's golf name, though, is Pete Dye. He lived in Indianapolis, and the state promotes a seven-course Pete Dye Golf Trail that runs from Brickyard Crossing, with four holes inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, to French Lick in the southern hills. Indianapolis also opened the country's fourth municipal course, Riverside, in 1900.
Tee times in Indiana are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 176 public golf courses here, grouped into 8 markets: Indianapolis, Southern Indiana, Fort Wayne & NE Indiana, South Bend & Michiana and more. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Indiana golf markets
Indianapolis
Bluff Creek Golf Course, Brickyard Crossing, Coffin Golf Club…
Southern Indiana
Buffalo Trace Golf Course - Indiana, Christmas Lake Golf Club, Country Oaks Golf Club…
Fort Wayne & NE Indiana
Donald Ross Golf Club by Indiana Tech, Maple Grove Golf Course, Zollner Golf Course at Trine University…
South Bend & Michiana
Blackthorn Golf Club, Eberhart-Petro Municipal Golf Course, Elbel Park Golf Course…
Chicago
Lost Marsh Golf Course, Palmira Golf & Country Club, The Course at Aberdeen…
Louisville & Lexington
Chariot Run Golf Club, Sunrise Golf Course, Champions Pointe Golf Club…
Lafayette & West Central Indiana
Benton County Golf Course, Harrison Hills Golf Club, Logansport Golf Club…
Cincinnati
The Links At Rising Star Casino, Belterra Casino Golf Club, Brook Hill Golf Course…
Who runs public golf in Indiana
Indiana Golf, in Lawrence, is the headquarters for five nonprofits, including the IGA, the Indiana Section PGA and the Indiana Golf Foundation. The IGA and the Indiana Section PGA joined forces in 1972 as the IGA-PGA, one of the few joint amateur and pro bodies in the country. For juniors, the foundation backs First Tee-Indiana, and the association runs a Prep Tour for ages 8 to 12 and the Howard Bailey Junior Tour for 13 to 19. Public golf in the cities is run by parks departments; in Indianapolis, Indy Parks owns courses including Eagle Creek, Coffin and Sahm. We found no statewide golf pass or state parks golf system.
Public courses worth knowing in Indiana
- The Pete Dye Course at French Lick: Par 72 and 8,102 yards, and Dye called it his favorite inland design. Golfweek's No. 1 course you can play in Indiana every year from 2010 to 2026, and No. 18 on Golf Digest's 2025 list of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses. Host of the 2015 Senior PGA and the 2024 and 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
- The Donald Ross Course at French Lick: Par-70 Ross course from the late 1910s, restored in 2006. Walter Hagen won the 1924 PGA Championship here.
- Brickyard Crossing: Pete Dye's 1992 redesign of the Speedway's old course, reopened in 1993 with four holes in the infield. Hosted the PGA Tour's 500 Festival Open in the 1960s, the Champions Tour and the LPGA.
- Eagle Creek Golf Club: 36 Pete Dye holes owned by Indy Parks. Hosted the 1982 USGA Public Links, Indianapolis's fourth.
- Coffin Golf Club: Indianapolis city course on the White River that hosted the Public Links in 1935, 1955 and 1972.
Booking tee times in Indiana: the local rules
French Lick gives hotel guests first access to the Dye, Ross and Valley Links courses; everyone else calls the resort at (844) 489-0529. City courses book individually. In Indianapolis, Eagle Creek requires tee times on weekends.
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 176 courses in Indiana and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Fort Wayne · 7
- Fishers · 5
- Evansville · 3
- French Lick · 3
- South Bend · 3
- Anderson · 2
- West Lafayette · 2
- Frankfort · 2
- Kokomo · 2
- Greensburg · 2
- Franklin · 2
- Peru · 2
- Boonville · 2
- Bloomington · 2
- Angola · 2
- La Porte · 2
- Valparaiso · 2
- Hobart · 2
- Crown Point · 2
- Albany · 1
- Rossville · 1
- Shelbyville · 1
- Greenwood · 1
- Crawfordsville · 1
Getting a tee time in Indiana
Golf in Indiana follows the seasons: spring openers and fall weekends are the busiest stretches, and summer mornings fill before afternoons.
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.
Booked-up doesn't mean gone. Plans change: groups cancel ahead of the course's cancellation deadline (often 24 to 48 hours out), players drop when the forecast turns, and a group that shrinks leaves an open spot. Those times quietly come back on the booking page, usually for minutes, not hours.
Yoink
Watch all 176 courses in Indiana. Hear the moment one opens.
Pick the courses you'd play and Yoink keeps an eye on all 176 courses in Indiana. 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 Indiana: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Indiana?
Pick your courses in Yoink (176 in Indiana), 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 Indiana?
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.
- indianagolf.org · association
- indyencyclopedia.org · media
- indianagolf.org · association
- indianagolf.org · association
- petedyegolftrail.com · official
- frenchlick.com · official
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- brickyardcrossing.com · official
- parks.indy.gov · official
- en.wikipedia.org · media
The best tee times in Indiana open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.