Golf courses by state
North Dakota Golf Courses & Tee Times
In Fargo, Bismarck and Grand Forks the park districts run city golf, and two of the state's best-known courses sit on open prairie: Hawktree north of Bismarck, where Burnt Creek and the wind decide your round, and The Links of North Dakota on the bluffs above Lake Sakakawea. The North Dakota Golf Association runs 11 state championships, handles handicaps and course rating for the USGA, and funds junior golf. The North Dakota Open dates to 1964. Mike Podolak, winner of numerous North Dakota amateur titles, won the 1984 U.S. Mid-Amateur and played on the 1985 Walker Cup team.
Tee times in North Dakota are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 22 public golf courses here, grouped into 2 markets: Bismarck & Western North Dakota, Minnesota Lakes Country. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
North Dakota golf markets
Who runs public golf in North Dakota
Park districts run city golf. Fargo's has five courses under the Fargo Golf name: Edgewood and Rose Creek plus three nines, with season passes good at all five. Bismarck Parks and Recreation runs Pebble Creek, Riverwood and Tom O'Leary, a junior links and an indoor dome. Its season passes go half-price on July 15, and juniors 17 and under play free on set summer mornings and with a paying adult. Grand Forks runs its golf through King's Walk, an Arnold Palmer design, and Lincoln Golf Course.
Public courses worth knowing in North Dakota
- Hawktree Golf Club: Jim Engh design north of Bismarck with black coal slag in the bunkers and Burnt Creek in play on eight holes. Golf Digest's best course in North Dakota in 2001, and No. 71 on Golfweek's 2001 100 Best Modern Courses.
- The Links of North Dakota: Stephen Kay links on the bluffs above Lake Sakakawea, east of Williston. Par 72 with 82 bunkers and no water in play; the wind does the rest.
- Riverwood Golf Course: Bismarck Parks course dedicated in 1969 and picked for Golfweek's 2016 Best Courses You Can Play.
- Edgewood Public Golf Course: Fargo Park District 18 on the Red River in north Fargo, with tight fairways, sloped greens and plenty of bunkers.
- King's Walk Golf Course: Grand Forks Park District course designed by Arnold Palmer in a prairie links setting.
Booking tee times in North Dakota: the local rules
City courses book close in. Fargo opens tee times online at 6:00 am three days ahead, and Bismarck lets you reserve up to three days out with a credit card. Both track no-shows: two in a season shuts off online booking in Fargo, and a third in Bismarck brings a full green fee charge and a seven-day booking hold.
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 22 courses in North Dakota and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Fargo · 4
- Dickinson · 1
- Bismarck · 1
- South Heart · 1
- Mandan · 1
- New Salem · 1
- Casselton · 1
- Leonard · 1
- Mapleton · 1
- Devils Lake · 1
- Williston · 1
- Jamestown · 1
- Jericho · 1
- Grand Forks · 1
- Minot · 1
Getting a tee time in North Dakota
Golfers in North Dakota get maybe six months of good weather, and they all want the same weekend mornings. Demand bunches up from May to September.
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.
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
All 22 courses in North Dakota, watched for you around the clock
Yoink watches all 22 courses in North Dakota 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 North Dakota: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in North Dakota?
Pick your courses in Yoink (22 in North Dakota), 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 North Dakota?
Demand peaks from late spring through early fall. 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.
- ndgolf.org · association
- en.wikipedia.org · wikipedia
- pine2palmgolf.com · official
- fargogolf.net · government
- fargogolf.net · government
- bisparks.org · government
- bisparks.org · government
- bisparks.org · government
- bisparks.org · government
- ndgolf.org · association
- ndgolf.org · association
- gfparks.org · government
- kingswalk.org · official
The best tee times in North Dakota open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.