Fastest finger first. Booking tee times

[Springveldt]

Using a script or bot to book for you is absolutely not okay. I'd go so far to say that those that think it is are cheats.

Before you try to justify it to others (or yourself) answer this: would you be happy sharing this scrip with all other members at your club? Would you publicly post it here? Would you walk into the pro shop and tell them that this is how you book your tee time?

It also annoys me that clubs won't do anything about it. It's not that hard. Look at the tee sheet for the last 4 Saturdays 1 minute after signup has opened and phone those members and give them a warning

1 minute? At my club and my old club if you look after 1 minute of tee times opening every tee is booked before 12pm.

I know I book our tee times manually and I've grabbed a tee, stuck our names down and back to the main page with 15 seconds of it opening. Would you think I'm a bot?

 

[WorldHandicapSystem]

We have a regular group of between 16 and 20 of us.....we play every Friday teeing off roughly around 11am, and every Sunday at around 10am.

When the booking becomes live for the following week, four of five of us agree which tee times each of us will book so we get consecutive tees. We just wait for the appointed time and as soon as the booking goes live we book the tees. No tech involved...just being prepared in advance and reasonably quick on the draw....and should the unthinkable happen and some other person quicker on the draw manages to get one of our desired tee times, we just have a quiet word via email, or, on the day, asking if they would be willing to swap with either our first or last slot. i reckon that as a group we get our 5 tees in well under 30 seconds.

Just because tees are booked quickly doesn't mean a script is being used....so you would be wrongly persecuting a group of golfers who choose to organize themselves to get the tee times they want. It’s no different to the old days where folks would stand with pencils at the ready, waiting for a physical tee sheet to be pinned to the noticeboard.

We have a group similar to yours who block book many prime times then slowly cancel once they have decided which they will take. Unfortunately they play at the same time on a Sunday morning I wish to play. They feel that’s their time and get annoyed when someone breaks up their groups. To the point they will try and push in or tee off early to try and fore playing through.

Having access to some of the best agentic AI systems means I don’t have to worry about getting a tee time. I have a lovely assistant that books them for me. I don’t even need to be sat at a PC or interact with it in any way unless I want to book a different time. And there is no way the club would know it wasn’t me doing the booking.

Share the fact that you use a script to book your tee time with your club pro or on your club whatapp group. Post back here with the results. I dare you

I don’t know if my club has one. I certainly wouldn’t want to be part of it if there is. The lads in the pro shop know how I book my times and have no issue with it. Maybe because I’m polite and respectful rather then behaving like I own the place and the staff are servants?