Club glossary
What Is a Tee Sheet?
The schedule of a course's tee times for a day — who plays, when, from which tee, with guests and carts — plus the rules that decide who can book what.
A tee sheet is the schedule of tee times for a golf course on a given day: every starting time, from which tee, and who is booked into it — members, guests, carts or walkers. At a private club the tee sheet is also the set of booking rules behind that schedule: who may book, how far in advance, which times are reserved for standing games or events, and how the most popular times are shared out.
What a tee sheet holds
- Times and intervals. The first and last tee times and the gap between them — often 8 to 10 minutes, sometimes different in the morning and afternoon.
- Tees. One column per starting tee; a second column for the 10th tee when the club runs a crossover.
- Bookings. Each time's players, guests, transport and any notes for the golf shop.
- Blocks. Times held for events, leagues, maintenance, a shotgun start or the golf professional's lessons.
- Status. Checked in, on the course, finished or no-show, updated by the golf shop and the starter.
The booking rules
The rules are where private-club tee sheets differ most from public ones:
| Rule | Example |
|---|---|
| Booking window | Members book 7 days ahead; social members 2 days |
| Release time | Next Saturday's times open at 7:00 a.m. on Monday |
| Allocation | A lottery for weekend mornings, first-come otherwise |
| Standing times | Six Saturday groups hold their times weekly |
| Guests | No guests before 11:00 on weekends; three per member per round |
| Limits | One weekend-morning booking per member at a time |
| Waitlist | Members queue for a full time and are offered it if one opens |
These rules usually vary by membership category.
Example
On a Saturday in June, a club's sheet runs from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 9-minute intervals in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. The 7:00–8:00 times went to lottery winners on Wednesday, six standing times fill 8:00–8:50, the member-member shotgun blocks 12:30–5:30, and eleven members are waitlisted for morning times.
Why it matters at a private club
The tee sheet is where members experience fairness. Access to prime times is the most sensitive policy question at most golf clubs, and the sheet has to enforce the committee's rules exactly — the same way for every member, every week. It also drives the rest of the operation: guest fees, cart assignments, pace of play, the halfway house's lunch rush and the golf shop's staffing.
Related terms
For policy design, see tee time booking policies.
In Bubs: the tee sheet enforces booking windows, allowed times, daily limits and guest allowances by membership class, and runs lotteries, standing times, waitlists, front- and back-nine starts and event blocks on the same sheet members book from in the club app. See tee sheet.