Golf courses by state
Rhode Island Golf Courses & Tee Times
Rhode Island sits near the start of American golf. Newport Country Club, a private club founded in 1893, hosted the first U.S. Amateur and the first U.S. Open in 1895, then the 1995 U.S. Amateur that Tiger Woods won and the 2006 U.S. Women's Open. The Rhode Island Golf Association followed in 1902 and now counts 49 member clubs. On the public side the anchor is Triggs Memorial in Providence, a 1932 Donald Ross design. Two 9-hole courses opened in 2024, South Shore Village in South Kingstown and Met Links on the old Metacomet grounds in East Providence. RIGA calls South Shore Village the state's first brand-new course in nearly 25 years.
Tee times in Rhode Island are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 19 public golf courses here, grouped into 2 markets: New England, Southern New England. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Rhode Island golf markets
Who runs public golf in Rhode Island
The state doesn't run much golf. Rhode Island's parks department runs one 9-hole, par-36 course at Goddard State Park in Warwick. Providence owns Triggs Memorial and leases it to FCG Associates, which took over in 1990 and restored the course toward Ross's original plans. The Rhode Island Golf Association, merged with the Rhode Island Women's Golf Association in 2013, runs the state championships, conducts USGA local qualifying and handles course rating and handicaps. Its home is Button Hole in Providence, a learning center built on a former gravel pit that turns 25 on August 4, 2026.
Public courses worth knowing in Rhode Island
- Triggs Memorial Golf Course: Donald Ross design that opened in 1932. The course calls itself the only true public Ross in the state, and Providence says Golf Magazine counts it among New England's best munis.
- South Shore Village Golf Club: 9-hole, 3,407-yard par 35 in South Kingstown, open to the public since 2024. RIGA calls it the first new course in the state in nearly 25 years.
- Goddard State Park golf course: The state parks course: 9 holes, par 36, 3,021 yards in Warwick.
- Met Links: 9 holes in East Providence on the site of Metacomet Country Club, reopened to the public in June 2024.
Booking tee times in Rhode Island: the local rules
Goddard State Park takes tee times by phone only, up to two days ahead, per the state tourism listing. Triggs and the privately run daily-fee courses book through their own sites.
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 19 courses in Rhode Island and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Warwick · 3
- North Kingstown · 2
- Hope Valley · 2
- Cranston · 1
- Mapleville · 1
- Portsmouth · 1
- Lincoln · 1
- North Providence · 1
- East Providence · 1
- Foster · 1
- South Kingstown · 1
- Providence · 1
Getting a tee time in Rhode Island
The season in Rhode Island 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.
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 19 courses in Rhode Island, watched for you around the clock
Pick the courses you'd play and Yoink keeps an eye on all 19 courses in Rhode Island. 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 Rhode Island: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Rhode Island?
Pick your courses in Yoink (19 in Rhode Island), 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 Rhode Island?
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.
- rigalinks.org · association
- rigalinks.org · association
- rigalinks.org · association
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- providenceri.gov · government
- triggs.us · course
- visitrhodeisland.com · tourism
- rigalinks.org · association
- rigalinks.org · association
- rigalinks.org · association
The best tee times in Rhode Island open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.