Green Bay & Door County Golf Courses & Tee Times

Who runs public golf in Green Bay & Door County

Public golf here is a mix of government land and private owners. Peninsula State Park Golf Course is on state land and has been run since 1982 by Peninsula Golf Associates, a nonprofit that leases it from Wisconsin; the DNR lists it open from late April through late October. Brown County owns Brown County Golf Course in Hobart, a Lawrence Packard layout that opened in 1958 and hosted the 2005 Wisconsin State Amateur. Thornberry Creek is owned by the Oneida Nation. We found no resident discount card for Green Bay or Brown County golf.

Public courses worth knowing in Green Bay & Door County

• Peninsula State Park Golf Course: Inside Peninsula State Park, 18 holes since 1931, run by a nonprofit on state land. One hole plays 69 yards down a 50-foot cliff, and there is a six-hole short course.
• The Orchards at Egg Harbor: William Newcomb design from 2000 on 200 acres of orchards and hardwoods, closing around a five-acre lake.
• Thornberry Creek at Oneida: Oneida Nation course from 1994 that hosted the LPGA's Thornberry Creek Classic from 2017 to 2019, including Kim Sei-young's record 257 in 2018.
• Brown County Golf Course: County-owned Lawrence Packard design from 1958. Golf Digest rated it a Top 50 Public course in 1990, and it hosted the 2005 Wisconsin State Amateur.
• Mid Vallee Golf Course: 27 holes in De Pere that rotate daily, and home to First Tee of Northeast Wisconsin.
• Alpine Resort And Golf Course: Egg Harbor resort course whose ninth hole drops off a bluff toward the bay. The Legacy Nine is set to fully reopen for 2027.

Booking tee times in Green Bay & Door County: the local rules

Brown County runs a seven-day window: phone bookings open a week ahead at 6:00 pm Central and online at 6:30. Cancel at least two days out or you pay for the whole group. Thornberry Creek takes tee times up to 14 days ahead. At Peninsula, you can't book a same-day time online, so call the clubhouse, and a missed reservation costs $25 a player. Its rates move with demand, and online is cheaper than a phone quote.

Why tee times in Green Bay & Door County are hard to get

Golfers in Green Bay & Door County get maybe six months of good weather, and they all want the same weekend mornings. Demand bunches up from May to September.

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.

When tee time cancellations happen

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.

How to get a tee time in Green Bay & Door County

Doing it by hand? Here's what works.

1. Know the booking window. Find out how many days ahead each course releases times, and whether residents get an earlier window. Be ready the morning it opens.
2. Look again 24 to 48 hours out. That's when most cancellation deadlines pass and spots come back.
3. Be flexible on group size. Singles and twosomes fit into gaps a foursome can't.
4. Try twilight and weekday afternoons. They're the last to fill and often cheaper.
5. Keep a quicker course in your back pocket. Nine-hole and executive courses are easier to get on and play faster. Around here that includes Alpine Resort And Golf Course and Pine Acres Golf Course.

Read the full guide to getting a tee time when everything's booked