Where Opened Tee Times Are

The table below is the post. Every distinct opened course-date in our golf log, grouped by the area our scanners assign to its course, with the course count, the entry-price median where the sample supports one, and the same-day share.

Scanned area	Distinct opened course-dates	Courses	Median entry price	Same-day share
Scottsdale / Phoenix, AZ	41	7	$69	63.4%
Las Vegas, NV	29	6	$130	65.5%
Ponte Vedra / Jacksonville, FL	23	4	$99	34.8%
Tampa, FL	12	2	$62	58.3%
Orlando, FL	10	2	$134.50	70.0%
Palm Springs, CA	5	1	withheld (n < 10)	80.0%
Tacoma, WA	5	1	withheld (n < 10)	20.0%
San Antonio, TX	3	1	withheld (n < 10)	66.7%

Read it as a footprint first and a market second. Scottsdale / Phoenix at 41 is not merely the largest area in the table — it is larger than the bottom five areas combined, on seven watched courses, with a median entry price of $69 that sits well below Las Vegas's $130. That price gap is real within the log and unsurprising in context: Scottsdale's watched courses include municipal-priced inventory alongside resort courses, while the Las Vegas set leans resort. But the ranking itself is partly a watch-depth statement, and the honest version of this post says so in the same paragraph as the ranking: we watch more courses in Scottsdale / Phoenix (seven) than in San Antonio (one), and a course we do not watch cannot open in our log no matter how often its sheet turns over. The table is therefore a guide to where our coverage is deep and where opened inventory has actually appeared inside it — the two things a reader choosing a watch needs — and not a claim that Scottsdale golfers cancel more than golfers elsewhere. A national ranking would need a national footprint; we have eight areas, and we name them.

What the small areas are for

The bottom of the table — Palm Springs (5 distinct course-dates, one course), Tacoma (5, one course), San Antonio (3, one course) — is the part of a data post most sites would quietly drop. We keep it for two reasons. First, a count of five is still a fact: five opened course-dates at one watched course in a six-day window is a standing watch worth having if that course is the one you play, and the same-day shares in the table show several of those openings were day-of. Second, the withholding rule is the point of the exercise: with samples that small, a median entry price would be a single opening wearing a statistic's clothes, so the table says so and prints nothing. The discipline is the same one the consolidated golf post applies to per-course rankings and golf survival — unpublished is better than unreliable — and the table's credibility at the top depends on its restraint at the bottom. When any of these areas reaches ten distinct course-dates, its median appears in the next rebuild of this post's source data; until then, counts only.

Desert golf, in November, is the story the footprint tells

Set the caveat aside for one paragraph and read the geography on its face: the top of the table is desert golf in shoulder season. Scottsdale / Phoenix and Las Vegas together hold the majority of distinct opened course-dates, and their same-day shares show a market that turns over close to the day of play — the pattern the consolidated post established for the log as a whole (57.8% same-day across all areas). November in the desert is peak-arrival season with full sheets, booked early and then re-planned as trips firm up; that is the demand story that fits a same-day-heavy, desert-heavy table. The Florida areas tell the quieter version: Ponte Vedra / Jacksonville and Tampa and Orlando together hold fewer distinct course-dates than Scottsdale alone, with lower same-day shares in the Jacksonville set — a market that, in this window, reopens further out. Neither reading is a claim about golfers in general. Both are readings of one log, in one window, over eight areas — and both are useful to exactly one person: the golfer deciding which area's watch to set first. Set it where the flow is deepest and the entry price fits, which in this log means Scottsdale / Phoenix first — the most-alerted single course in the log, the Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale, has already appeared 14 times across 9 play dates — and keep a second watch where you actually play, even if its table row is small. The live golf counts are tracked alongside the campsite log on the cancellation index; the counting method is on the methodology page.

The limits, plainly

This is a six-day window (Oct 30, 08:50 AM ET – Nov 04, 03:58 AM ET) over eight scanned areas and 24 courses; it is not a market census, and area counts are floors set by watch depth, not totals of all reopened tee times. Detection days so far cover Friday through Wednesday with Thursday still unobserved as a detection day (see the weekend-and-morning post for the detection-window caveat on day-of-play shares) — area totals are less sensitive to that gap than day-of-play shares, but the window is still young. Entry prices are the cheapest bookable time inside each opening, not the price any golfer paid, and medians are withheld below ten distinct course-dates. What survives the caveats is the footprint's shape: within the areas we watch, opened tee-time flow concentrates in the desert, turns over mostly same-day, and is deep enough in Scottsdale / Phoenix to build a watch around today.

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Last updated 2026-11-04.