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Golf Openings, Second Readings: The Log Doubled
Two days ago we published our tee-time scanner's first readings and labeled them, repeatedly, as first readings. The log has since roughly doubled: 49 confirmed openings covering 43 distinct course-dates at 22 courses in 7 metro areas. This post republishes the full table at its new size, checks which first-reading observations survived contact with more data — and keeps the same label discipline: readings, sized to their sample, not trends.
Quick answers
- How many tee-time openings has the scanner caught now?
- 49 confirmed alerts covering 43 distinct course-dates at 22 courses in 7 metro areas, between Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET and Nov 01, 03:03 AM ET. The alerts-to-distinct gap is re-openings: a course-date that opens, closes and opens again alerts each time.
- Are most tee-time openings still same-day?
- Yes, at the larger size: 29 of 43 distinct course-dates (67%) were for the day the opening was detected — the same-day tilt from the first readings, holding as the sample roughly doubled.
- Which metro area produces the most openings?
- Scottsdale–Phoenix, with 14 of the 43 distinct course-dates. That is a description of where our watched courses and late-October demand are concentrated, not a claim that Scottsdale sheets recycle fastest — the closure data that could support a ranking is still accumulating.
- What did the openings cost?
- Listed price ranges in the log run from $35 to $350 across all openings — the marketplace's own ranges for the returned inventory, per opening, in the table below.
Watch it with itOpened
TPC Scottsdale's Champions sheet opened, closed and opened again — on the same date.
That flicker is the market: a single check sees one state of a moving sheet. Our scanner reads the TeeOff channel every few minutes and texts you when a sold-out date gains bookable times that survive confirmation.
Proof, from our own scanners: 2161 confirmed openings across 110 campgrounds since Oct 29, 2026 — each one re-verified before logging. See the live cancellation index.
Watch TPC Sawgrass tee timesFree to start. We never book, hold, or resell — you book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. Fees pay for monitoring; openings are first-come and cannot be guaranteed.
Our first golf post made a promise implicit in its label: first readings are a beginning, and beginnings get checked. The scanner has kept polling the GolfNow/TeeOff marketplace for its 26 watched courses — hot courses' near dates roughly every five minutes, the rest of the sheet roughly every fifteen, every candidate opening confirmed on an immediate re-fetch before it counts — and the log it produces has roughly doubled since that post. Second readings are where a young dataset either confirms its first shape or corrects it. Ours, mostly, confirmed — with one honest change in emphasis, on concentration, that the bigger sample makes visible.
The full table, at its new size
49 confirmed alerts, collapsed to 43 distinct course-dates (a course-date that opens, closes and opens again counts once here, and alerts again in the log):
| Course | Date | Listed price range | Tee-time span |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Golf Club at Red Rock | Fri Oct 30 | $111.99–$300 | 07:24–16:58 |
| Bali Hai Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $169–$299 | 07:20–15:50 |
| Kokopelli Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $45–$90 | 11:10–17:01 |
| Longbow Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $54–$149 | 07:12–16:03 |
| Raven Golf Club - Phoenix | Fri Oct 30 | $92–$208 | 06:45–16:30 |
| Rhodes Ranch Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $140–$185 | 11:42–16:03 |
| Shingle Creek Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $130–$175 | 09:00–17:50 |
| SilverRock Golf Course Resort | Fri Oct 30 | $130–$201 | 09:40–14:10 |
| Stonecreek Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $50–$144 | 06:48–16:51 |
| TPC Sawgrass - Dyes Valley Golf Course | Fri Oct 30 | $250–$350 | 11:15–18:05 |
| The Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale | Fri Oct 30 | $149–$229 | 10:06–15:12 |
| Westchase Golf Club | Fri Oct 30 | $60–$115 | 09:45–16:25 |
| Arroyo Golf Club at Red Rock | Sat Oct 31 | $120.99–$293 | 07:08–16:58 |
| Bali Hai Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $169–$299 | 06:20–14:50 |
| ChampionsGate Golf Club - International at Omni Orlando Resort | Sat Oct 31 | $129–$195 | 07:40–15:20 |
| Desert Willow Golf Course | Sat Oct 31 | $35–$49 | 13:30–15:30 |
| Kokopelli Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $45–$85 | 06:49–17:01 |
| Longbow Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $59–$149 | 06:45–16:03 |
| McCormick Ranch Golf Club - Pine Course | Sat Oct 31 | $59–$149 | 06:48–18:00 |
| Raven Golf Club - Phoenix | Sat Oct 31 | $92–$184 | 06:45–16:30 |
| Rhodes Ranch Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $140–$185 | 06:09–15:36 |
| Shingle Creek Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $130–$175 | 08:40–17:50 |
| SilverRock Golf Course Resort | Sat Oct 31 | $132–$138 | 13:40–14:10 |
| Stonecreek Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $50–$91 | 06:39–16:42 |
| TPC Sawgrass - Dyes Valley Golf Course | Sat Oct 31 | $250–$350 | 09:35–18:05 |
| TPC Tampa Bay | Sat Oct 31 | $139–$189 | 08:42–17:37 |
| The Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale | Sat Oct 31 | $149–$209 | 11:27–15:12 |
| The Quarry Golf Course | Sat Oct 31 | $96–$229 | 08:00–16:40 |
| The Revere Golf Club - Concord | Sat Oct 31 | $115.99–$119.99 | 13:23–13:41 |
| Westchase Golf Club | Sat Oct 31 | $60–$108 | 10:05–15:45 |
| World Golf Village - Slammer & Squire Golf Course | Sat Oct 31 | $99–$179 | 07:09–17:04 |
| World Golf Village - King & Bear Golf Course | Sun Nov 01 | $99–$215 | 07:00–17:04 |
| Ocotillo Golf Club | Mon Nov 02 | $71–$86 | 07:04–12:54 |
| The Quarry Golf Course | Mon Nov 02 | $170–$175 | 07:20–07:50 |
| SilverRock Golf Course Resort | Tue Nov 03 | $117–$206 | 06:10–14:10 |
| McCormick Ranch Golf Club - Pine Course | Thu Nov 05 | $69–$99 | 14:00–18:00 |
| OMNI Amelia Island Resort - Little Sandy | Fri Nov 06 | $55–$60 | 08:00–08:40 |
| OMNI Amelia Island Resort - Little Sandy | Sat Nov 07 | $55–$60 | 08:00–08:00 |
| Westchase Golf Club | Tue Nov 10 | $59–$102 | 07:25–16:25 |
| Westchase Golf Club | Wed Nov 11 | $59–$106 | 08:25–15:45 |
| World Golf Village - King & Bear Golf Course | Thu Nov 12 | $99–$209 | 07:26–16:55 |
| TPC Sawgrass - Dyes Valley Golf Course | Fri Nov 13 | $250–$350 | 08:55–17:05 |
| The Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale | Fri Nov 13 | $179–$258 | 08:00–15:03 |
What held: the same-day tilt
The first readings' headline observation was that tee-time recycling is mostly a same-day market: cancelled morning slots and released hot-deal inventory return on the day, not next week. At roughly double the sample, it held — 29 of 43 distinct course-dates, 67%, were detected on the day of play. Two days is still not a season, and late October is still overseed-and-shoulder season in most of the watched metros; but an observation that survives a doubling, unchanged in direction and similar in size, has earned one notch more confidence than it had. We state it now as the scanner's consistent reading to date — still not as a law of golf sheets.
What sharpened: concentration
The larger sample makes the geography plainer. Scottsdale–Phoenix accounts for 14 of the 43 distinct course-dates, and the single most repetitive sheet in the log remains The Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale: 7 alerts across just 3 distinct dates, a sheet that opens, closes and opens again inside the same day. Two cautions ride on that observation. First, concentration partly reflects our own watch list — the courses we chose to watch are famous desert and Florida sheets, so their share of openings is partly a mirror of the registry, not purely of the market. Second, repeat alerts on one course-date measure flicker, not volume of distinct inventory: seven alerts on three dates is a sheet in motion, not seven tee times for the taking at once. Both cautions were true at first-reading size; the bigger sample makes them worth printing again, louder.
What we still will not claim
No course rankings by recycling speed — golf closure data, the completed life cycles that power the campsite survival tables, is still accumulating and has not reached a publishable per-course sample. No opening rates per course-day — the denominator depends on how many watched course-dates were genuinely sold out at each poll, a figure this log does not yet state cleanly, and a rate without an honest denominator is a decoration. No seasonal claims — this window is late October into the first hours of November, in 7 metro areas, at listed prices from $35 to $350. Each of those claims gets its post when, and only when, its sample exists — the same discipline that kept a golf post out of an earlier content wave when the log held five alerts, and that published the campsite tomorrow bucket only when it filled in.
How to use a doubling log
Plan for same-day, watch for future dates. With 67% of distinct openings arriving on the day of play, the winning posture is a standing watch plus a bag that can move today — while the minority of future-date openings rewards the same watch running quietly in the background for weeks. Expect famous sheets to flicker, not open once. A course-date that re-opens repeatedly punishes the single manual check and rewards the persistent watch; checking TPC Scottsdale once at breakfast samples one state of a sheet that changed again by lunch. Set your ceiling before the text. Returned inventory in this log spans $35 to $350, and the cheapest slots inside any opening's range are the first taken — a price decided in advance is a booking; a price debated is a story about a booking.
First readings: a smaller table, one same-day tilt, zero rankings. Second readings: the tilt held, the concentration sharpened, the rankings still withheld. The counting continues in public, and the third readings will be published the same way — with the table, the sample size, and the label the data has earned.
Watch it with itOpened
TPC Scottsdale's Champions sheet opened, closed and opened again — on the same date.
That flicker is the market: a single check sees one state of a moving sheet. Our scanner reads the TeeOff channel every few minutes and texts you when a sold-out date gains bookable times that survive confirmation.
Proof, from our own scanners: 2161 confirmed openings across 110 campgrounds since Oct 29, 2026 — each one re-verified before logging. See the live cancellation index.
Watch TPC Sawgrass tee timesFree to start. We never book, hold, or resell — you book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. Fees pay for monitoring; openings are first-come and cannot be guaranteed.
Frequently asked questions
How does itOpened detect a tee-time opening?
The scanner polls the GolfNow/TeeOff marketplace for each watched course-date (26 courses; hot courses' near dates roughly every 5 minutes, other dates roughly every 15). A no-inventory to has-inventory transition must survive an immediate confirmation re-fetch before an alert is logged.
How many tee-time openings have you found in total?
49 confirmed alerts between Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET and Nov 01, 03:03 AM ET, covering 43 distinct course-dates at 22 courses in 7 metro areas — roughly double the first-readings sample published two days earlier.
Are most tee-time openings really same-day?
In both readings so far, yes: 29 of 43 distinct openings (67%) in the current log were for the day they were detected. That is a consistent reading across a doubling sample in late October — stated as a reading, not yet as a seasonal law.
Why won't you rank courses by how often they reopen?
Because alert counts mix genuine recycling with sheet flicker and with our own watch-list choices, and the golf closure log — completed opening life cycles, the basis of every campsite ranking we publish — has not reached a publishable per-course sample yet. When it does, the ranking gets its own post.
Sources
- itOpened golf scanner alert log (engine/golf/golf_alerts.jsonl), Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET – Nov 01, 03:03 AM ET: 49 confirmed alerts of kind 'opening', 43 distinct course-dates after deduplication by facility and date, 22 courses, 7 metro areas; 29 distinct openings same-day; Scottsdale–Phoenix 14 distinct; listed price ranges $35–$350. Every figure and table row computed from that log at build time.
- itOpened golf scanning service (engine/golf/service.py) and its runbook: 26 watched courses on the GolfNow/TeeOff marketplace; an opening is a no-inventory to has-inventory transition for a course-date, confirmed by an immediate re-fetch; first sight of a course-date is a baseline and never alerts; poll cadence ~5 minutes for hot courses' near dates, ~15 minutes otherwise.
- itOpened, 'First golf openings' (/blog/first-golf-tee-time-openings/): the first-readings table and sample this post republishes at its new, roughly doubled size.
- itOpened methodology (/methodology/): confirmation standard and the first-readings labeling convention.
Every figure in this article traces to one of the sources above. If a number isn't sourced, we don't print it.
Last updated 2026-10-30.