Golf Definitions: The Tee Sheet
The tee sheet is what golf courses use to track and manage tee time reservations, calls to the first tee, and flow around the golf course. If you want to make a tee time at Course X, you must contact that course and reserve the time. Assuming your desired time is available, of course. How do the employees know if your desired time is available? They check the tee sheet, where all previously claimed tee times are written down, and where any remaining open slots are shown.
And if you do get a tee time, your name, or the name of your group, along with the number of golfers in your group, is added to the tee sheet.
Tee sheets have been part of golf for as long as golf courses have offered (or required) tee time reservations. And that is a very long time.
Back in the day, tee sheets were actual sheets of paper, formatted for the pro shop's use in recording times, group names, and number of golfers in the group. And there are probably still courses that use paper tee sheets and make entries manually. (That means, at those locations, golfers still have to call the pro shop: "Hey, I have a group of four, we're looking for a tee time on Saturday around noon, do you have a spot available?")
Most tee sheets today, though, are kept electronically. And in many cases today, golfers now can visit a course or club website, check for tee time openings, and register online. Tee sheet software can also be purchased for the use of golf associations and other groups that need to manage tournament groups and start times.
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