Better Tee Times
The practical details of how alerts and availability work. For what Birdie Alerts is — and why we never send you through an aggregator — see the About page.
Pick a course, date, time window, and player count, and give us the phone number to text. We check that course's tee sheet roughly every ten minutes, directly against its booking system. The first time a tee time matching your criteria appears — a cancellation, a released sheet, a group shrinking — we text you the times, prices, and a direct booking link. Each alert fires once, then retires, so you'll never get spammed.
Go to the My Alerts page and enter your phone number — we'll text you a 6-digit verification code. Enter it once and that browser stays signed in for 30 days, so only you can see or delete alerts for your number. Each device verifies separately (your phone and laptop each get their own code), and if you clear your cookies or switch browsers, just request a new code.
Not directly — delete it from the My Alerts page and create a new one with the criteria you want. It takes a few seconds and the new alert starts watching immediately. Alerts whose date has passed clean themselves up automatically.
Because you don't need one — if times matching your criteria are open right now, the fastest path is to book one before it's gone. Alerts are for when nothing's available: sold-out mornings, dates the course hasn't released yet, busy weekends. Adjust to a date or time window with nothing open and the alert will save.
Searching tee times is free forever — no account, no login. SMS alerts are free too: the free plan covers one active alert at a time. Premium is $4.99/month and unlocks unlimited simultaneous alerts. You can cancel Premium anytime from the My Alerts page, and you keep unlimited alerts through the end of the billing period you've already paid for.
Most tee times you see are seconds to a few minutes old; a few booking systems we have to check less frequently can be a little older. Golf inventory moves fast — a slot can be booked between the moment we display it and the moment you click. The booking page always shows the live truth, which is exactly why we send you there directly.
Reply STOP to any Birdie Alerts text and everything shuts off: your alerts are cancelled and we can't text you again. Changed your mind? Text START to the same number and you're re-subscribed — then set up a fresh alert on the site. (If you previously texted STOP, the site will remind you to text START first, since carriers block our texts to you until you do.)
Public, municipal, daily-fee, and semi-private courses that accept public play — 3,800+ of them across 100 metros. We don't list private clubs, because you can't book them. If your local muni is missing, email support@birdiealerts.com and we'll look at adding it.
Someone beat you to it — cancellations at popular courses can get rebooked in minutes. That's the exact problem alerts solve: we text you the moment the slot appears, so you hear about it as early as anyone can. If it still slips away, keep the alert running for the next opening by setting a new one.