TeeBooked › Guides › Tee-time service vs ticket bot
No. Ticket touting works by mass-buying inventory with many accounts and reselling it at a markup to people who were never in the queue. A members' tee-time assistant books one game, for one member, on that member's own account, and nothing is resold. The slot goes to the same person it always would have: a member of the club, playing their own golf.
| Ticket-tout model | Members' assistant (TeeBooked) | |
|---|---|---|
| Accounts used | Many, often fake, per event | One: yours, that you already hold |
| What is taken | As much inventory as possible | One slot, for one game, in your window |
| Who ends up with it | Whoever pays the markup | You. The person the membership belongs to |
| Money model | Profit per resold unit | Flat monthly service fee, no per-slot markup |
| Effect on everyone else | Inventory removed from the real queue | The queue is unchanged; one member booked one slot |
Some public and municipal courses, particularly in the United States, have genuinely suffered broker-style reselling of tee times, and the backlash against that is deserved. But the thing being condemned there is resale of public inventory by people with no intention of playing. A member at a private members' club asking an assistant to secure their own regular Saturday game shares no mechanic with it: no extra accounts, no hoarding, no resale, no stranger on the tee.
Ask one question of any booking service: who plays the golf? If the answer is "whoever pays the markup", it is touting. If the answer is "the same member who was always going to play, now without refreshing a screen at 7pm", it is an assistant. TeeBooked is built, priced and contractually bound as the second thing: our terms ban resale and multi-account use outright.
Set up your gameBecause both involve software acting at a release moment, and because some US public courses have genuinely suffered from broker-style reselling of municipal tee times. That practice deserves the backlash it gets. It has nothing in common with a member using an assistant to book their own slot at their own club.
Never. TeeBooked books your game on your account for your play, charges a flat monthly subscription for the service, and takes no payment per slot and no markup. Reselling and multi-account use are banned in our terms and get accounts closed.