Two of the courses our members played most in 2026 share a zip code. Quail Valley and Flatbush both sit in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, a short drive apart. So if you’ve ever wondered where an Adams County foursome goes once the group chat finally commits, now you know.
Every fall we look at where TeeTime Golf Pass members actually played. Not a vote and not a panel: these are the 25 courses where members redeemed the most deals in the TeeTime Golf Pass app during the 2026 season. No Northeast course made the 25, so we’ve added the three Northeast courses members played most. If you read our Friday newsletter, you’ve already met a few of these in the Featured Course series.
They’re in no particular order. We’ve grouped them by pass, so you can find the ones near you, and listed them alphabetically inside each one. A course marked Not on the 2027 pass was a partner in 2026 and earned its place on the list. And 2027 deals can differ from 2026 deals, so each course name links to its page with the current line-up.
Mid-Atlantic
Armitage, Mechanicsburg, PA
Armitage has narrow fairways, so this is a day to leave the driver’s ego in the trunk. It’s a par 70 in Hampden Township, a short drive from Harrisburg. If you like to study before you play, the course’s own tour page has a drone flyover of every one of the 18 holes.
The ladies go out on Tuesday mornings, the men and the seniors each have their own league, and a PGA Professional gives private lessons if the narrow fairways start winning. The Caddy Shack restaurant takes care of everyone afterward.
Bridges, Abbottstown, PA
Bridges was the Bross family’s horse farm before Charles and Fred Altland laid out this par 72. Wooden bridges carry you over the wetlands, No. 2 has a covered bridge, and the day ends with a climb: No. 9 runs uphill to the clubhouse, then No. 18, a 540-yard par 5, climbs right alongside it. Seniors found this one, too: its Senior Special was a 2026 favorite.
Deer Valley, Hummelstown, PA
Ask at the pro shop at Deer Valley and they’ll lend you a cooler filled with ice for the round. Honestly, that could be the whole write-up. (Fine, a little more.) The shop has historic beams and stonework, it stocks beer, seltzers and premixed cocktails, and its covered porch looks out over No. 1.
From the course you can see past the farmland to Hershey and Blue Mountain, and the greens are big and elevated. Behind the shop there’s a practice green and a chipping area with target flags. Deer Valley is family-run and only takes a few outings a year.
Flatbush, Littlestown, PA
Flatbush has been open to public golfers since July 1989, out in the farmland between Hanover and Gettysburg. Its two nines ask different things of you: the front is longer, with room to settle in, and the back is shorter and all about putting the ball in the right spot. Expect sand around the fairways and greens on this par 71, then lunch with your group at the restaurant.
Flatbush quick drone flyover. Video: GreatLIFE Golf.
Quail Valley, Littlestown, PA
Quail Valley sits 5 miles east of Gettysburg and has been open since 1993. Its owners, Scott and Colyn Keller, are grandsons of Yankees great Charlie Keller. The two nines play nothing alike: the front threads through old trees, then the back opens up and brings water into play on seven of its nine holes. No. 13 is the one people talk about on the drive home, a par 3 to an island green.
Members kept coming back for the Weekday Deal. Afterward, the Loft Clubhouse Bar & Grill pours eight drafts in a restored barn with woodwork from the 1860s.
Range End, Dillsburg, PA
For about 40 years, Range End was private. In 1995 a group of local businessmen bought it and let everyone in, and golfers have been making up for lost time ever since. It’s a mature par 71 with the mountains behind it, small greens with open fronts, and a lit range for an after-work bucket. Harrisburg, York, Carlisle and Gettysburg are all within 30 minutes.
Range End, holes 1-18 by drone. Video: Hipp Golf.
Rich Valley, Mechanicsburg, PA
Rich Valley opened in 2003 as a public par 71 with bentgrass tee to green. What sets it apart is a walking-only, three-hole beginners loop, kept to the same standard as the main course, where families are encouraged to start their kids. Leagues play Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, plus a senior league, so there’s a decent chance your Tuesday group already knows the way.
Royal Manchester, Mount Wolf, PA
Royal Manchester was imagined in the spirit of the Old Course at St Andrews, minutes from York. It’s a walkable par 72 by a lake, with greens where most putts lean toward the river. No. 18 comes home downhill for 433 yards with the waterfall, the patio and the clubhouse in view, and the pub over the 18th is open to non-golfers too, in case someone in the car isn’t playing.
Royal Manchester full course flyover. Video: the course’s own YouTube channel.
Sly Fox, Middletown, VA
Sly Fox is a family owned 18 in the Shenandoah Valley, and Cooley Lake is one of several water hazards standing between you and a good number. The ground rolls, the greens move, the bunkers wait for a loose swing, and the Blue Ridge Mountains fill the view the whole way round. The Blue tees stretch it to 6,513 yards; the Reds play 4,369.
The Men’s Senior League plays every week, and once a month the ladies get together for Divots and Divas, a nine-hole league. Afterward, the Bar & Grill cuts its fries to order and pours Helles Golden Lager from Sly Fox Brewing Co. Take it out to the deck above the 9th green and replay the back nine.
Midwest
Coppertop, Valley City, OH
Look for the copper roof. You can pick out Coppertop‘s clubhouse from the road, about twenty-five minutes south of Cleveland on rolling Medina County land, and it’s been open to the public since 1963.
Mature trees do most of the defending here. They line tight fairways and reward a straight ball, and water only gets involved on a few holes. On several tees you’re standing up high, looking down at the fairway you need to find. Walkers are welcome, but the hills will make you earn it. No. 5 is home to the Up the Hill challenge, the hole outings build a contest around, and the Golfers Pub keeps a full bar for settling who won. Its Promo Round was a 2026 favorite.
Fox Den, Stow, OH
Fred Schmeidel designed Fox Den, and the first rounds went off in 1967. Then in 2006 the City of Stow bought its roughly 130 acres so they’d stay a golf course. Good call, Stow.
It’s a public par 71, run by the city’s Service Department, with a range, two big putting greens and a few spots to work on chipping and pitching. The Fox Den Grille handles the sandwiches and the draft beer, which is the right order of operations after 18.
Fox Run, Beaver Falls, PA
Fox Run comes with a pedigree. Max Mesing won the West Penn Open, qualified for the 1999 US Senior Open and went into the Tri-State PGA Hall of Fame. In 1984 he bought the old Palisades Golf Course on River Road, renamed it Fox Run and opened it to the public, then ran it for more than thirty years. PGA Junior Championships have often been held here. The Stroupes, another local family, took over in 2024.
You can play 9 or 18, walking or riding, or try FlingGolf: one FlingStick, and you throw the ball instead of hitting it. We can’t promise it’ll lower your score. We can promise a new excuse.
Pheasant Ridge, Gibsonia, PA
Pheasant Ridge gives its course advice in plain English, and we love it for that. No. 4 and No. 15 are both 199-yard par 3s. On the first, the course says a 4 is a great score. On the 15th, its tip is one more club so you don’t come up short. No. 17 stretches to 212 yards, and the advice there is blunt: don’t go right.
Your birdie look is No. 7, a 501-yard par 5, where the course suggests clubbing down from the fairway and using the bounce. The 18th closes at 401 yards, a par 4 with out of bounds left and an elevated green. PGA professional Joe DeCroo gives lessons, and inside you’ll find sandwiches, hot dogs, draft beer and a cigar humidor. Its Promo Round was another 2026 favorite.
Punderson Manor Resort, Newbury, OH
Punderson Manor is a state park lodge in Newbury, beside Ohio’s largest natural kettle lake, and the golf course is a short trip from your room. Jack Kidwell designed it in 1969: a par 72 of more than 6,800 yards over rolling ground, bentgrass on the fairways and greens, 45 sand traps and 4 ponds.
The back side is where the par 3s and par 5s stretch out. No. 8 is the signature hole, a narrow, wooded fairway that runs downhill and doglegs over a pond. Stay the night in a Tudor style manor room or a cabin, have dinner at the Cherry Dining Room by the lake, and you’ve turned a round into a trip.
Sable Creek, Hartville, OH
Sable Creek comes in three nines, the Black, the Maroon and the Gold. The ground rolls gently, the fairways are bentgrass, and there’s water and sand waiting for the loose shots. No. 2 on the Black, a 395-yard par 4, is the one to get through.
Bringing a crowd? They’ll help with contests and catering, and once a group reaches 100 golfers it can go off in a shotgun start. Just the four of you? The koi pond and waterfall by the patio work just as well for a sandwich and a drink afterward.
St. Albans, Alexandria, OH
St. Albans opened in 1988 and rolls with the land, with Lobdell Creek and plenty of ponds, and it’s an easy course to walk. The back nine opens on the hardest hole on the course, No. 10, a 451-yard par 4 off the blues. Welcome back from the turn.
It’s a par 71 at 6,723 yards from the back, the par 5s at No. 7 and No. 17 both stretch to 585 yards, and four sets of tees let a mixed group play the same round. The Men’s Association keeps a schedule of best-ball games, and there’s a covered patio for afterward. Its Promo Round was a 2026 favorite, and Columbus and Newark are both close by.
Turkeyfoot Lake, Akron, OH
Golfers have been teeing it up at Turkeyfoot Lake since 1925, in the Portage Lakes part of Akron, with trees lining the fairways. Its leagues run 18 weeks with two extra weeks built in for rainouts, which may be the most honest scheduling in golf.
The pavilion holds up to 144 people, so a company or family outing fits with room to spare, and PGA professionals give private and group lessons. Coming from out of town? The course pairs a round with a night at one of three partner hotels near Canton. Its Promo Round was a 2026 favorite. The 2027 deals are a little different, so check the course page before you go.
Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links flyover. Video: RevTechPlus.
Lower Midwest
Boone Links, Florence, KY
Boone Links is 27 public holes in Florence, just off I-75: Brookview, Lakeview and Ridgeview. Von Hagge and Devlin designed the first two, which opened in August 1979 on the old Boone Aire Country Club, and Dr. Michael Hurdzan added Ridgeview in 1989. PGA pro Jeff Kruempelman holds the course record with a 64, in case anyone in your group needs a target.
Rained out? Two 4K simulators inside let you play Pebble Beach or the Old Course at St Andrews, and out back of the clubhouse there’s an 18-hole mini golf course with water features. It’s Lassing Pointe’s sister course, and both belong to Boone County Golf.
Fairfield Greens – South Trace, Fairfield, OH
South Trace has a story behind it. Jack Kidwell designed it, and it opened in 1969 as Pleasant Run Country Club. The City of Fairfield bought it in late 1978, when Bugs Phalen was mayor, and reopened it the next year as Fairfield Golf Club. The clubhouse’s Phalen Center is named in his honor.
Today it’s a par 70 with a lot of water and tree-framed fairways. And Michael Hurdzan’s nine-hole North Trace executive course sits right beside the 13th hole, for the days when nine is plenty.
Lassing Pointe, Union, KY
Lassing Pointe opened in 1994 on a Dr. Michael Hurdzan Design Group layout, minutes from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. Boone County Golf runs the concession itself, so the menu has mettwurst, bratwurst, pub burgers and draft beer. We’ve written about Lassing Pointe before, and its sister course, Boone Links, is on this list too.
Lassing Pointe flyover. Video: GolfFrontier.
Upper Midwest
Bedford Hills, Temperance, MI
Bedford Hills sits in Temperance, just across the Ohio line, and its three nines are the Rocket, the Wolverine and the Buckeye. So everybody gets a nine they can cheer for.
Each one plays its own way. The Rocket has the reputation as the stiffest, with big oaks framing every hole and a need to move the ball both ways. The Wolverine feels more like a links, with rolling fairways, well guarded greens and water on several holes. The Buckeye mixes scoring chances with holes that ask for accuracy. Leagues rotate across all three, four sets of tees keep it friendly for newer golfers, and there’s a big range, Bedrock Mini Golf and a picnic area for the family.
Carrington, Monroe, MI
Carrington is a course you can walk. Brian Huntley designed it, it opened in Monroe in 1998, and the club calls the layout traditional and strategic.
Get there early. On the range you hit off bentgrass tees at target greens and sand bunkers. Afterward, River’s Edge, the bar and restaurant, leans Italian-American, with specialty pizzas on the menu. Its Senior Special was a 2026 favorite, so the weekday morning crowd may already have found the pizza.
Maumee Bay Resort, Oregon, OH
Maumee Bay is a Scottish links layout on Ohio’s north coast, laid across protected wetlands inside the state park. Arthur Hills designed it in 1991, and he left 59 sand traps out there for you. The 14th is the hardest hole, with a fairway that twists and water to get past.
Stay over in a Maumee Bay Lodge room or a cabin and you’ve got yourself a golf trip, no airport required.
Maumee Bay State Park Golf Course. Video: Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Stone Ridge, Bowling Green, OH
The man who designed Stone Ridge kept coming back to play it. In a 2015 letter the club shares, Arthur Hills wrote that he’d played it several times a year for several years running. Hard to beat that for a review.
His layout is in the Scottish links style, over woods and rolling ground in Bowling Green, two miles off I-75. It’s a public par 72, and the Traditions Grille’s patio tables look over the 9th and 18th greens, which makes for good seats when your group is finishing up.
Valleywood, Swanton, OH (Not on the 2027 pass)
Valleywood was a 2026 partner and isn’t part of the 2027 pass. It earned its place, so it stays on the list.
24 of these 25 courses are on the 2027 pass.
Northeast: the top three
The Northeast pass is our smallest, so none of its courses cracked the overall 25. These are the three Northeast courses members played most in 2026, and all three are on the 2027 pass.
Beekman, Hopewell Junction, NY
Beekman was pasture land until 1963. Today it’s 27 public holes in the Hudson Valley hills, split into three nines, the Highland, the Valley and the Taconic, and many of the holes look out to the mountains.
Upstairs, The Grill at Beekman has a bar and its own view across the valley. PGA-rated instructors run weekly clinics, and kids get junior camps in the summer.
Rip Van Winkle, Palenville, NY
The Rip is a nine-hole Donald Ross design in Palenville, and the Smith family has owned and run it for more than three generations. It plays with alternating tees, so the second time around isn’t the first nine over again.
The fairways roll but they’re easy to walk, the views come along with them, and the club’s tavern serves dinner. Catskill, Hunter, Saugerties and Woodstock are each about 10 minutes away. Nobody here is sleeping for 20 years, though after dinner at the tavern you might be tempted.
Swan Golf & Country Club, Saugerties, NY
The Catskill Mountains are in view all day at The Swan, five minutes off the New York State Thruway in Saugerties. Barry Jordan designed the par 70, and the round takes you past cascading ponds, rock outcroppings and an alpine garden.
The elevation changes are dramatic, yet it’s an easy course to walk, which feels a little like cheating. The Swan Bar has two outdoor levels that look out at the same mountains, so nobody has to rush the drive home.
The deals golfers used most in 2026
Two deal types tied for the top spot: Weekday deals and Promo Rounds, about a third of all the deals members used, each. Then came the seniors. One deal in five was a Senior Special. Seniors figured out the Tuesday morning tee time a long time ago, and good for them.
- Weekday: 32%
- Promo Round: 32%
- Senior Special: 20%
- Weekend: 8%
- Combo days (weekday or weekend): 6%
Some of the single deals members came back to again and again in 2026, in no particular order:
- Senior Special at Bridges, Abbottstown, PA
- Senior Special at Carrington, Monroe, MI
- Promo Round at Coppertop, Valley City, OH
- Weekday Deal at Indian Ridge, Oxford, OH
- Promo Round at Pheasant Ridge, Gibsonia, PA
- Weekday Deal at Quail Valley, Littlestown, PA
- Promo Round at South Hills, Hanover, PA
- Promo Round at St. Albans, Alexandria, OH
- Promo Round at Turkeyfoot Lake, Akron, OH
Deals change from year to year, so the 2027 line-up for each course is on its course page.
New for 2027: courses that could make next year’s list
These courses are new to the pass for 2027 (or back after a year away). Lots of golfers live near some of them; others are worth the drive. Any of them could make next year’s list. 2027 deals start January 1.
Cypress Creek Golfers’ Club, Smithfield, VA (Mid-Atlantic). A Curtis Strange Signature design cut from hardwood forest and old peanut fields, with an island green at No. 9 and its own “amen corner” from the 15th.
Cypress Creek, hole 1 flyover. Video: the course’s own YouTube channel.
Hollenback, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Mid-Atlantic). A municipal executive nine with no par 5, for the days you’ve got two hours, not five.
Pleasant Valley, Medina, OH (Midwest). The Ostmann family has run it since 1970: a Jack Kidwell design over 165 acres with six lakes, fast greens and indoor simulators for when the snow starts.
Rocky Lakes and Windy Knoll, Springfield, OH (Lower Midwest). Two Springfield courses. Windy Knoll is back after a year away: it’s built on an old horse farm, with holes named The Pasture and Stallion Row.
Vandergrift, Vandergrift, PA (Midwest). Weekday and weekend deals, cart included.
Whispering Pines, Pinckney, MI (Upper Midwest). A public 18 from 1991 by Don Moon, bentgrass from the fairways to the greens.
Your 2027 list starts here
Every course on this page got there the same way: a group of golfers kept picking it. The 2027 pass is here, with 1,000+ courses and tee time deals where golfers can save up to 50% every round. Pick a new one, get it on the calendar, and bring your group.
And if one of these turns into your group’s new regular, we’d like to hear about it.
This list is based on deals redeemed in the TeeTime Golf Pass app during the 2026 season (through October 29, 2026). Rounds played with the print edition aren’t recorded, so they aren’t included. Courses marked “not on the 2027 pass” were partners in 2026 but aren’t part of the 2027 pass.
