Golf courses by state
New Jersey Golf Courses & Tee Times
New Jersey's state golf association is one of the oldest in the country. Ten clubs, Baltusrol and Morris County among them, formed the New Jersey State Golf Association over dinner at Essex County Country Club on June 1, 1900, and held the first State Amateur that September. NJ Golf, as it now calls itself, says it is the second oldest state association in the U.S. The State Open followed in 1921. Since 2013 the association has worked out of Galloping Hill, a Union County course in Kenilworth, and in 2016 Galloping Hill became the first county-owned course to host the State Open.
Tee times in New Jersey are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 137 public golf courses here, grouped into 8 markets: Northern & Central New Jersey, South Jersey & the Shore, Philadelphia, Westchester & Hudson Valley and more. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
New Jersey golf markets
Northern & Central New Jersey
Ash Brook Golf Course, Ballyowen Golf Club, Bel-Aire Golf Course…
South Jersey & the Shore
Atlantis Golf Course, Avalon Golf Club, Big Little 9…
Philadelphia
Gambler Ridge Golf Club, Heron Glen Golf Course, Indian Spring Golf Course…
Westchester & Hudson Valley
Darlington Golf Course, Overpeck Golf Course
Hudson Valley
1Club at The Great Gorge
Poconos & Lehigh Valley
High Point Golf Club
Upstate NY — Capital & Central
LBI National Golf & Resort
Western NY — Buffalo & Rochester
Latona Country Club
Who runs public golf in New Jersey
New Jersey public golf is mostly county golf. Each county park system sells its own card for lower rates and earlier booking: Bergen's registration, Morris's Registration Card, Monmouth's Golf Pass, Somerset's Golf ID Card and Union's Player's Card. Monmouth's six courses alone see more than 200,000 rounds a year. The history runs deep. Essex County's Weequahic in Newark opened in 1914, and the county calls it the oldest public course in the state. Essex also owns two Charles Banks courses, Francis Byrne and Hendricks Field. For juniors, NJ Golf runs Youth on Course: $60 a year gets ages 6 to 18 rounds for $5 or less at 33 New Jersey courses, plus a GHIN handicap.
Public courses worth knowing in New Jersey
- Hominy Hill Golf Course: Robert Trent Jones course in Colts Neck, built in 1965 as a private club and now Monmouth County's. It has hosted two USGA Amateur Public Links.
- Galloping Hill Golf Course: Willard Wilkinson's 1928 design in Kenilworth, home of NJ Golf's headquarters and the first county-owned course to host the State Open, in 2016.
- Weequahic Golf Course: Opened in 1914 in Newark's Weequahic Park; Essex County calls it the oldest public course in New Jersey.
- Francis A. Byrne Golf Course: A 1928 Seth Raynor design built by Charles Banks, with Road, Biarritz, Short and Eden template holes restored by Stephen Kay.
- Hendricks Field Golf Course: The only course Charles Banks designed for public use, opened in 1929 in Belleville.
- Neshanic Valley Golf Course: Somerset County's 27 holes in three par-36 nines, stretching to 7,108 yards, with a 9-hole Academy Course.
Booking tee times in New Jersey: the local rules
Booking rules are set county by county, and the card is what gets you the longer window. Bergen gives registered golfers seven days and everyone else three. Morris gives card holders ten days and others seven. Monmouth pass holders get a week, opening at 8:00 p.m.; without a pass it is two days. Somerset ID card holders get seven days; others book three days out by phone.
Yoink
Know the rules. Let Yoink do the waiting.
Booking windows decide who gets first pick. After that, times come back one at a time as plans change. Yoink watches all 137 courses in New Jersey and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Hamburg · 4
- Cape May Court House · 3
- Mount Laurel · 3
- Blackwood · 3
- Oak Ridge · 2
- West Orange · 2
- Vernon · 2
- Colts Neck · 2
- Plainsboro · 2
- Neshanic Station · 2
- Wayne · 2
- Somerset · 2
- Piscataway · 2
- River Vale · 2
- East Brunswick · 2
- Mount Holly · 2
- West Deptford · 2
- Marlton · 2
- Wall Township · 1
- Franklin · 1
- Princeton · 1
- Millstone · 1
- Monroe Township · 1
- Short Hills · 1
Getting a tee time in New Jersey
Golf in New Jersey 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.
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 New Jersey on one watchlist: all 137 of them
Yoink checks all 137 courses in New Jersey every few minutes, so every open time is in one place and you're the first to know when one that fits your day, window and group appears, cancellations included.
Tee times in New Jersey: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in New Jersey?
Pick your courses in Yoink (137 in New Jersey), 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 New Jersey?
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.
- njgolf.org · association
- njgolf.org · association
- njgolf.org · association
- njgolf.org · association
- youthoncourse.org · official
- essexcountyparks.org · government
- monmouthcountyparks.com · government
- monmouthcountyparksystem.blogspot.com · official
- essexcountyparks.org · government
- essexcountyparks.org · government
- monmouthcountyparks.com · government
- monmouthcountyparks.com · government
- golfbergencounty.com · official
- morriscountygolfcourses.com · official
- somersetcountygolf.us · official
- gallopinghillgolfcourse.com · official
- somersetcountygolf.us · official
The best tee times in New Jersey open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.