182 public courses around Australia run with no online tee sheet (14 in WA, 62 in NSW, 8 in TAS, 46 in QLD, 34 in VIC, 13 in SA, 2 in NT, 3 in ACT). You turn up, pay, and play. Here is how walk-up golf works and where to find it.
There is a whole tier of Australian golf that never shows up on booking apps, because there is nothing to book. 182 public courses we track run first in, first served. No tee sheet, no booking window, no planning the round four days out. For a spontaneous nine after work or a Saturday morning where the group chat only got its act together at 8am, walk-up golf is the answer.
You rock up, pay at the counter or the honesty box, and join the flow of play. Weekday mornings and early afternoons are usually quiet. Saturday mornings can queue, especially at the good cheap ones, and a few courses run club competitions at set times where visitors wait. The counter staff will tell you straight, and so will Divot: ask it when a course is usually quietest and it will give you an honest answer instead of a booking link that does not exist.
| Course | From | State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pickering Brook Golf Course · Perth | $5.00 | WA |
| 2 | Werris Creek Golf Course Werris Creek · Central West NSW | $5.00 | NSW |
| 3 | Bagdad Public Golf Course Bagdad · Hobart | $8.00 | TAS |
| 4 | Karumba Golf Club Karumba · Cairns & Far North | $10.00 | QLD |
| 5 | Ravenshoe Golf Club Ravenshoe · Cairns & Far North | $10.00 | QLD |
| 6 | Altone Park Golf Course Beechboro · Perth | $10.00 | WA |
| 7 | Darlington Beach Holiday Park Golf Course Arrawarra · Mid North Coast | $10.00 | NSW |
| 8 | Dandenong Workers Social Club Golf Course Dandenong · Melbourne | $10.00 | VIC |
| 9 | Isle of Coochie Golf Club Coochiemudlo Island · Gold Coast | $10.00 | QLD |
| 10 | Melville Golf Centre Leeming · Perth | $10.00 | WA |
| 11 | Mundaring Golf Course Mundaring · Perth | $10.00 | WA |
| 12 | Wallacia Panthers Golf Course Wallacia · Sydney | $10.00 | NSW |
| 13 | Yanchep National Park Golf Course Yanchep · Perth | $11.00 | WA |
| 14 | Studley Park Golf Course Kew · Melbourne | $12.60 | VIC |
| 15 | Waverly Pitch & Putt Mulgrave · Melbourne | $13.00 | VIC |
The full list, filterable by market: every walk-up course we track.
Walk-up courses are usually councils and community clubs, and they are where a lot of people fall in love with the game: cheap, unfussy, nobody judging your swing. They are also invisible to every booking platform, which is exactly why we track them. A course does not stop existing because it has no tee sheet.
Yes. 182 public courses we track across Australia have no online tee sheet at all: first in, first served. Pay at the counter and play.
Weekday mornings and early afternoons are generally quiet. Saturday mornings can queue at the popular cheap courses, and some clubs run competitions at set times. Ask the pro shop, or ask Divot when a specific course is usually quietest.
The cheapest walk-up round we track is currently $5.00. Most sit well under a typical booked weekend rate.
Divot lives in your group chat, watches the tee sheets, and gets the round booked. No app.