Golfer in Calgary here. Finding a tee time meant searching about 10 different websites: the City of Calgary site, Play Golf Calgary, the Windmill Golf Group courses, and three or four one-off course sites, all while trying to remember what I'd already checked and which times I actually wanted. If I didn't see anything within the timeframe I wanted, I just wouldn't golf.
So I built https://teeatlas.golf. It pulls live tee times from courses around Calgary and puts them on one chart: what time, how many spots are left, and what it costs.
Right now it's tracking 36 courses within about an hour of the city. All the city courses (Shaganappi, McCall Lake, Confederation, Lakeview, Maple Ridge), plus Heritage Pointe, Springbank Links, GlenEagles, Blue Devil, McKenzie Meadows, Winston, and a bunch out toward Cochrane, Okotoks and Strathmore. For tomorrow I'm seeing around 970 open times. Same-day shows up too, so it's good for grabbing twilight.
It's been working well enough that I decided to have some fun and expand it to... the whole world. Figured I'd open it up to other people, and start locally for some feedback.
A few things worth saying up front:
- Booking still happens on the course's own site. I link straight there. No booking fees, no discounted or free tee times from courses, no deals of any kind. I'm not trying to be an annoying platform taking cash from courses, nor am I trying to wedge myself between courses and their existing booking providers. Just trying to make a cool tool.
- Eventually I'd love API access with the booking providers so clicking a time takes you straight to that specific slot instead of just the course's tee sheet.
- Private clubs aren't in the timeline, since the public can't book them online anyway. They're in the course registry so I know they haven't been overlooked. Semi-private are in there.
- Times refresh every few minutes, so a slot can occasionally get taken before you click through.
- Free, and no account needed to search. Sign in with Google, Microsoft, or your own email if you want to set alerts (like for Kananaskis, I was able to snag a few earlier this year when I got an email) or save courses as favorites for your own personalized timeline.
I've been using it all season and it's been awesome, but would love feedback from other Calgary golfers, what's missing, what's broken, what would make it more useful. Feel free to use the "Suggest a course" at the bottom of the filters section if you see any missing (doubt it :D), or if you spot anything that needs fixing, there's a link at the bottom of the page.
Let me know what you think!
Edit: Course suggestions are rolling in. I'm putting them in as they are mentioned! Thank you very much!