Golf courses by state
Pennsylvania Golf Courses & Tee Times
Pennsylvania has three golf associations and some of the oldest in the country. The Golf Association of Philadelphia dates to February 5, 1897, and the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association to 1899. The statewide body, the Pennsylvania Golf Association, was formed on February 19, 1909, at Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Club by six men from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Its first state Amateur, at Huntingdon Valley, ended with Harold McFarland beating A.W. Tillinghast. On the public side, the story starts at Cobbs Creek in Philadelphia, a 1916 Hugh Wilson course that hosted the 1928 U.S. Public Links.
Tee times in Pennsylvania are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 228 public golf courses here, grouped into 10 markets: Poconos & Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg & Central PA and more. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Pennsylvania golf markets
Poconos & Lehigh Valley
Allentown Municipal Golf Course, Berkleigh Golf Club, Blue Mountain Golf Club…
Philadelphia
Bella Vista Golf Course, Bensalem Township Country Club, Broad Run Golfer's Club…
Pittsburgh
Avalon Field Club at New Castle, Duck Hollow Golf Club, Glengarry Golf Links…
Harrisburg & Central PA
Armitage Golf Club, Caledonia Golf Club, Dauphin Highlands Golf Course…
State College & Altoona
Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa, Park Hills Golf Club, Penn State Golf Courses…
Erie & Northwest PA
Avalon at Buhl Park, Cross Creek Resort, North Hills Municipal Golf Course…
North Central PA
Bucknell Golf Club, Corey Creek Golf Club, River Valley Country Club…
Washington DC & Baltimore
Carroll Valley Resort Golf Course, Gettysburg National Golf Club, South Hills Golf Club…
Upstate NY — Capital & Central
Tall Pines Players Club
Western NY — Buffalo & Rochester
The Pennhills Club
Who runs public golf in Pennsylvania
There is no big state-park golf system here. DCNR lists two courses in state parks, both run by the clubs themselves: Caledonia, a par-68 course from the late 1920s next to Caledonia State Park, and Skippack, a par-70 layout inside Evansburg State Park. Most public golf is local. Allegheny County runs two 18-hole, par-72 courses at North Park and South Park, with lower rates for county residents: in 2026, $25 to walk 18 on a weekday versus $31 for non-residents. Philadelphia's courses sit on Fairmount Park land, and townships such as Lower Makefield and West Norriton own well-known public courses in the suburbs. For juniors 6 to 18, Youth on Course gets $5 walking rounds at participating courses, run through the WPGA in the west and GAP in the east.
Public courses worth knowing in Pennsylvania
- Cobbs Creek: Hugh Wilson's 1916 Philadelphia muni, host of the 1928 U.S. Public Links and two PGA Tour events in the 1950s. The restored Olde Course is slated for summer 2027.
- Jeffersonville Golf Club: Township-owned Donald Ross course near Norristown; in May 2026 the first public course to host a GAP major.
- Makefield Highlands Golf Club: Lower Makefield Township's links-style course, named Golfweek's #9 course you can play in Pennsylvania in 2013.
- Skippack Golf Club: 18 holes, par 70, inside Evansburg State Park.
- Caledonia Golf Club: Late-1920s par-68 course next to Caledonia State Park, which DCNR calls the oldest in southcentral Pennsylvania.
- Walnut Lane Golf Club: Alex Findlay's par-62 Philadelphia course, built with WPA labor and opened in 1940.
Booking tee times in Pennsylvania: the local rules
Booking is set course by course. Allegheny County takes reservations up to seven days out, online for up to four players or by phone and in person for up to six foursomes. Its regular season runs April to early October, with limited hours December through March.
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 228 courses in Pennsylvania and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Reading · 4
- Allentown · 3
- Lancaster · 3
- Easton · 3
- Butler · 3
- Elizabeth · 3
- Fayetteville · 3
- Douglassville · 2
- Barnesville · 2
- Gilbertsville · 2
- Jamison · 2
- Phoenixville · 2
- Freeport · 2
- Beaver Falls · 2
- Wexford · 2
- Mechanicsburg · 2
- Altoona · 2
- State College · 2
- Russell · 2
- Waterford · 2
- Mountain Top · 1
- Palmerton · 1
- Milford · 1
- Drums · 1
Getting a tee time in Pennsylvania
The season in Pennsylvania 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.
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 228 courses in Pennsylvania, watched for you around the clock
Pick the courses you'd play and Yoink keeps an eye on all 228 courses in Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Pennsylvania?
Pick your courses in Yoink (228 in Pennsylvania), 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 Pennsylvania?
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.
- pagolf.org · association
- gapgolf.org · association
- gapgolf.org · association
- wpga.org · association
- pa.gov · government
- alleghenycounty.us · government
- phila.gov · government
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- cobbscreekgolf.org · official
- lmt.org · government
- youthoncourse.org · association
- youthoncourse.org · association
- gapgolf.org · association
- pprarchives.libraryhost.com · government
The best tee times in Pennsylvania open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.