Golf courses by state
Nebraska Golf Courses & Tee Times
Nebraska golf goes back at least to a six-hole round in 1887, and the Nebraska Amateur has been played since 1905. The state's best-known golfer is Johnny Goodman of South Omaha, who won five straight Nebraska Amateurs starting in 1929 and in 1933 became the last amateur to win the U.S. Open. A municipal course in Omaha carries his name. The modern chapter started in the Sandhills: Sand Hills Golf Club in Mullen, a private Coore and Crenshaw design established in 1994, was named No. 1 on Golfweek's 2022 list of modern courses.
Tee times in Nebraska are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 79 public golf courses here, grouped into 5 markets: Omaha, Lincoln & Des Moines, Kearney & Central Nebraska, Norfolk & Northeast Nebraska, North Platte & Western Nebraska and more. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Nebraska golf markets
Omaha, Lincoln & Des Moines
Bay Hills Golf Club., Benson Park Golf Course, Elmwood Golf Course…
Kearney & Central Nebraska
Buffalo Ridge Golf Course, Heritage Hills Golf Course, Jackrabbit Run Golf Course…
Norfolk & Northeast Nebraska
Eldorado Hills Golf Course, Landmand Golf Club, Quail Run Golf Course…
North Platte & Western Nebraska
Four Winds Golf Course, Hillside Golf Course, Legend Buttes Golf Course…
Sioux Falls & Eastern South Dakota
Highland Oaks Golf Course
Who runs public golf in Nebraska
Public golf in Nebraska's cities is run mostly by city parks departments. Lincoln runs five courses, including Holmes, which hosted the first Nebraska Junior Amateur in 1968, and Pioneers, which the city calls the oldest public course in Lincoln. Omaha's municipal courses include Elmwood Park, open since August 5, 1916. The Nebraska Golf Association (NebGolf), founded in 1966 at Lincoln Country Club, is the USGA allied association: it handles handicaps and course rating for more than 160 member clubs and 33,000 members, and runs 14 state championships and seven USGA qualifiers. Its FORE! program, started in 2012, let juniors play for $4 a round as of 2016, and it runs the Nebraska Junior Golf Tour with the Nebraska PGA Section.
Public courses worth knowing in Nebraska
- Johnny Goodman Golf Course: Omaha municipal course named for the 1933 U.S. Open champion, the last amateur to win it.
- Elmwood Golf Course: Opened August 5, 1916; the World-Herald called it Omaha's oldest 18-hole city course at its centennial.
- Holmes Golf Course: Lincoln city 18 from the early 1960s near Holmes Lake; site of the first Nebraska Junior Amateur in 1968.
- Pioneers Golf Course: The City of Lincoln calls it the oldest public course in Lincoln and the surrounding states.
Towns with the most courses
- Omaha · 14
- Lincoln · 8
- Kearney · 4
- Ashland · 3
- Beatrice · 2
- Papillion · 2
- Nebraska City · 2
- Columbus · 2
- Norfolk · 2
- North Platte · 2
- Hooper · 1
- Tekamah · 1
- Oakland · 1
- Tecumseh · 1
- Milford · 1
- Bellevue · 1
- Eagle · 1
- Cairo · 1
- Clay Center · 1
- Cambridge · 1
- Sutton · 1
- Grand Island · 1
- Axtell · 1
- Saint Paul · 1
Getting a tee time in Nebraska
Golf in Nebraska 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
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Tee times in Nebraska: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Nebraska?
Pick your courses in Yoink (79 in Nebraska), 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 Nebraska?
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.
- nebgolf.org · association
- nebgolf.org · association
- nebgolf.org · association
- en.wikipedia.org · wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org · wikipedia
- omaha.com · media
- lincoln.ne.gov · official
The best tee times in Nebraska open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.