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Opened Tee Times Cluster on Weekends and Mornings
Our consolidated golf post established the log's center of gravity in time — most opened tee times are same-day. This post cuts the same log along the two axes that post did not publish: the day of the week being played, and the hour of the day inside the opening. Of 98 distinct course-dates that have opened in our log, 43 (43.9%) are Saturday or Sunday rounds — against the 28.6% of dates a calendar hands to weekends — and 57.1% of openings include at least one bookable tee time before 8:00 a.m. The weekend figure carries the largest measurement caveat we have attached to a golf number, and it is printed in this lede's companion sections rather than footnoted: our detection window so far covers Friday through Tuesday, which mechanically flatters weekend play dates. Both numbers are published with their seams showing.
Quick answers
- What day of the week do opened tee times fall on?
- Weekends, disproportionately: 43 of 98 distinct opened course-dates (43.9%) are Saturday (23) or Sunday (20) rounds, versus the 28.6% of calendar dates that are weekend days. Friday is the busiest weekday. Read the caveat in this post before quoting the share: the detection window (Friday–Tuesday so far) inflates it.
- What time of day are opened tee times?
- Early. 57.1% of distinct openings include a bookable time before 8:00 a.m. and 75.5% include one before 9:00 a.m.; the median opening's window runs 07:32–15:58, and 50.0% of openings reach 4:00 p.m. or later. Reopened inventory is disproportionately the morning sheet.
- Are same-day opened tee times cheaper?
- Not in this log. The median entry price (the cheapest time inside an opening) was $112 for same-day openings (n=61) and $99 for future-date openings (n=37) — no same-day discount, at sample sizes too small to price a strategy on. The overall median entry price was $109.50.
- Why is the weekend number caveated so hard?
- Because the observation window is Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday — the golf scanner has not yet logged a Wednesday or Thursday detection day. Same-day openings inherit their detection day, so play dates for the two missing weekdays can only arrive as future-date openings, a minority of the log. The weekend share will be re-measured when the window covers a full week; the tee-window numbers do not depend on the detection day and stand as printed.
Watch it with itOpened
The reopened sheet is a weekend-morning sheet. Be watching before it moves.
43.9% of distinct opened course-dates in our log are weekend rounds and 57.1% include a time before 8:00 a.m. 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: 5480 confirmed openings across 126 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.
The consolidated record — every confirmed opening, every course, what the log supports and what it refuses to claim — lives in golf tee-time openings, measured, and this post does not repeat it. What follows is one structural cut that page has not published, run on the same log at its current size: 115 confirmed opening alerts resolving to 98 distinct course-dates (a course and a date, counted once no matter how often its sheet flickered), detected Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET – Nov 03, 03:53 AM ET. Two questions, both answerable from fields the log has carried since its first day: what day of the week is the round, and what part of the day does the opening cover?
The day-of-play table
| Day of play | Distinct opened course-dates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 19 | 19.4% |
| Tuesday | 9 | 9.2% |
| Wednesday | 2 | 2.0% |
| Thursday | 4 | 4.1% |
| Friday | 21 | 21.4% |
| Saturday | 23 | 23.5% |
| Sunday | 20 | 20.4% |
The weekend bulge is the headline and the hazard. 43 of 98 distinct openings (43.9%) are Saturday or Sunday rounds; Friday (21) is the largest weekday; Wednesday and Thursday are nearly empty. Two forces produce that shape, and this sample cannot fully separate them. The first is real demand structure: weekend rounds are the inventory golfers book earliest, hold longest, and cancel latest, so the cancellation market should be weekend-heavy — and the split inside the log is consistent with it, since the weekend share among future-date openings (which are not chained to their detection day) is 24.3%, while same-day openings run 55.7% weekend. The second force is the window itself: detections so far span Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. A same-day opening — 61 of the 98 distinct — is necessarily detected on its day of play, so Wednesday and Thursday rounds had almost no same-day path into this log at all; they could only enter as future-date openings detected on the days we have. Some of the weekend bulge is therefore the calendar of the observer, not the market. We publish the table with both forces named because the underlying fact a golfer acts on survives either way: in the log as it exists, the rounds that come back are weekend rounds and Friday rounds, and a watch weighted to those days covers 64 of 98 openings. When the detection window completes a full week, this table will be republished and the two forces priced separately — the same republication promise this blog has kept on the campsite side.
The morning sheet is what reopens
The second cut is cleaner, because it does not depend on the detection day at all. Every opening in the TeeOff channel carries the span of bookable times it contains, from its earliest to its latest tee time. Across the 98 distinct openings, the median span runs 07:32 to 15:58 — and the distribution leans hard toward dawn: 23.5% of openings include a time before 7:00 a.m., 57.1% include one before 8:00 a.m., and 75.5% include one before 9:00 a.m., while exactly 50.0% reach 4:00 p.m. or later. Interpretation, labeled as such: the times that return to the sheet are disproportionately the times committed golfers booked first — the early weekend slots reserved the moment the window opened, held for days, and released when a plan, a foursome, or a forecast broke. Afternoon inventory, booked more casually, churns less dramatically and later in the day (our consolidated post found detections clustering in the early evening, consistent with afternoon rounds being cancelled the day before rather than the morning of). For the hunter, the practical shape of the market is a morning product: the watch that matters is the one standing before the early sheet starts moving, and the round you are likeliest to win is a round that starts before most golfers are awake.
Price: no same-day discount in this log
One more cut, published because golfers will assume the opposite: the entry price of an opening — the cheapest tee time inside it — does not fall as the round approaches, at least not here. Same-day openings (61 distinct) carried a median entry price of $112; future-date openings (37 distinct) carried $99; the overall median is $109.50. The samples are small, the mix of courses differs between the two groups, and no pricing strategy should be built on a $13 median gap at n=37 — we print it to retire the assumption, not to crown a new one. What the prices do support is the consolidated post's standing advice: decide your ceiling before the text arrives, because the cheapest slot inside any opening is taken first, and it is taken at roughly the same price whether the round is today or next week.
The limits, plainly
98 distinct course-dates across 24 courses in 8 metro areas, over a detection window of Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday days in late October and early November: this is a structure sketch, not a season. The weekend share is confounded by the detection window, as detailed above, and will move when the window completes a week. Per-course rankings and opening rates remain withheld — the consolidated post names why, and nothing in this cut changes it. The tee-window and price figures are descriptive of the openings the log caught, not of all tee-time inventory. What this post claims is narrow: the reopened sheet, as measured, is a weekend-and-morning sheet with no same-day discount — and the standing watch, which costs nothing while it waits, is still the only instrument that samples all of it. The campsite-side live counts are on the cancellation index; the golf counting rules are in the consolidated measurement post and the methodology page.
Watch it with itOpened
The reopened sheet is a weekend-morning sheet. Be watching before it moves.
43.9% of distinct opened course-dates in our log are weekend rounds and 57.1% include a time before 8:00 a.m. 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: 5480 confirmed openings across 126 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
Do cancelled tee times usually fall on weekends?
In our log, yes: 43 of 98 distinct opened course-dates (43.9%) are Saturday or Sunday rounds. The figure is confounded by a detection window that has so far covered Friday through Tuesday, which mechanically suppresses Wednesday and Thursday play dates; the post publishes the table with that caveat attached and will republish when the window covers a full week.
What time of day do reopened tee times start?
Early: 57.1% of distinct openings include a bookable time before 8:00 a.m., and the median opening spans 07:32–15:58. The reopened sheet is disproportionately morning golf.
Are last-minute tee times cheaper?
Not in this log: median entry price $112 for same-day openings (n=61) versus $99 for future dates (n=37). Samples are small and course mixes differ; the finding is published to retire the discount assumption, not as a pricing rule.
Why are there so few Wednesday and Thursday openings?
Partly the observer's calendar: the golf scanner's detection window so far spans Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so Wednesday and Thursday rounds could only enter as future-date openings. Whether a real weekday trough exists underneath that artifact is exactly what a full week of detection will settle.
Sources
- itOpened golf scanner log (engine/golf/golf_alerts.jsonl), Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET – Nov 03, 03:53 AM ET: 115 confirmed opening alerts (kind=opening) resolving to 98 distinct (course, date) pairs across 24 courses and 8 metro areas. Day of play: Monday 19; Tuesday 9; Wednesday 2; Thursday 4; Friday 21; Saturday 23; Sunday 20 — weekend 43 (43.9%) vs. the 28.6% calendar share (2 of 7 days). Tee windows over the 98 distinct openings: earliest before 07:00 23.5%, before 08:00 57.1%, before 09:00 75.5%; latest at or after 16:00 50.0%; median window 07:32–15:58. Entry prices (price_min): median $109.50 overall, $112 same-day (n=61), $99 future (n=37); weekend share 55.7% within same-day vs. 24.3% within future-date openings. Detection Eastern weekdays present in the window: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. All figures computed from the log at build time.
- itOpened, 'Golf tee-time openings, measured' (/blog/golf-tee-time-openings-measured/): the consolidated record this post extends — same-day center of gravity, per-course table, evening detection cluster, and the claims still withheld (per-course rankings, opening rates), which remain withheld here.
- itOpened methodology (/methodology/): TeeOff channel watch rules, confirmation re-fetch standard, and the baseline rule (first sight of a course-date never alerts).
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 2026-11-03.