Golf courses by state
Washington Golf Courses & Tee Times
Golf came to Washington in 1894, when a dozen British expats in Tacoma founded the Tacoma Golf Club and built the state's first course. Public golf followed in 1915 with Jefferson Park in Seattle, then Meadow Park in Tacoma and Downriver in Spokane. Spokane had the big early events: the 1941 U.S. Public Links at Indian Canyon, the 1944 PGA at Manito and the first U.S. Women's Open in 1946. The state's biggest public-course moment came in 2015, when Jordan Spieth won the U.S. Open at Pierce County's Chambers Bay.
Tee times in Washington are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 114 public golf courses here, grouped into 6 markets: Seattle, Wenatchee, Chelan & Central Washington, Portland, Spokane & Eastern Washington and more. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Washington golf markets
Seattle
Allenmore Golf Course, Auburn Golf Course, Blue Boy West Golf Course…
Wenatchee, Chelan & Central Washington
Bear Mountain Ranch, Desert Canyon Golf Resort, Lake Chelan Golf Course…
Portland
Beacon Rock Golf Course, Camas Meadows Golf Club, Mint Valley Golf Course…
Spokane & Eastern Washington
Red Wolf Golf Club, The Plains, Deer Park Golf Club…
Bellingham & Skagit Valley
Avalon Golf Links, Lake Padden Golf Course, Loomis Trail Golf Course…
Tri-Cities & Walla Walla
Canyon Lakes Golf Course, Sage Hills Golf and RV Resort, Wine Valley Golf Club…
Who runs public golf in Washington
Public golf in Washington is mostly run city by city and county by county; there is no state parks golf system in the sources read. Seattle Parks owns four facilities, run by a private operator under city contract. Pierce County owns Chambers Bay and prices it in tiers, with lower rates for county residents and for Washington and PNGA golfers than for visitors. Washington Golf, the state association since 1922 and a USGA allied association, runs the state amateur championships and USGA qualifiers and handles handicaps for Washington and Northern Idaho. Its foundation backs Youth on Course for junior golfers.
Public courses worth knowing in Washington
- Chambers Bay: Pierce County links on a former gravel quarry, opened 2007, walking only. Hosted the 2010 U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open, the first in the Pacific Northwest; the U.S. Amateur returns in 2033.
- Jefferson Park Golf Course: The state's first municipal course, 1915, where Bill Wright and Fred Couples learned. Renamed the Bill Wright Golf Complex in 2024.
- Indian Canyon Golf Course: Spokane muni that hosted the 1941 U.S. Public Links and PGA Tour events in 1945 and 1947.
- Downriver Golf Course: Opened in Spokane in 1916, one of the state's first three municipal courses.
- West Seattle Golf Course: H. Chandler Egan design, one of four Washington courses built by the WPA.
- Wine Valley Golf Club: Links-style course in the wheat fields near Walla Walla, opened 2009.
Booking tee times in Washington: the local rules
There is no statewide booking rule; each operator sets its own. At Chambers Bay, resident-rate tee times open up to three months out on the 1st of each month, and non-resident advance times for the 2026 season opened on January 1. Bring a photo ID if you are claiming a resident rate.
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 114 courses in Washington and tells you when a time that fits comes back, so you're not refreshing the page all week.
Towns with the most courses
- Tacoma · 7
- Olympia · 4
- Port Townsend · 3
- Port Orchard · 3
- Auburn · 2
- Oak Harbor · 2
- Snohomish · 2
- Bremerton · 2
- Everett · 2
- Chehalis · 2
- Chelan · 2
- Spokane · 2
- Clarkston · 2
- Deming · 2
- Bellingham · 2
- Monroe · 1
- Camano Island · 1
- Marysville · 1
- Covington · 1
- Dupont · 1
- Enumclaw · 1
- Tukwila · 1
- Arlington · 1
- Mukilteo · 1
Getting a tee time in Washington
Golf in Washington 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
Every course in Washington on one watchlist: all 114 of them
Yoink checks all 114 courses in Washington 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 Washington: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Washington?
Pick your courses in Yoink (114 in Washington), 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 Washington?
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.
- wagolf.org · association
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- historylink.org · media
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- chambersbaygolf.com · official
- chambersbaygolf.com · official
- wagolf.org · association
- seattle.gov · official
The best tee times in Washington open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.