2026 Muirfield Tee Times - Now On Sale

Muirfield tee times went live this morning.

Significant why? This starts a domino effect with many of the leading golf courses following. Royal Troon are already taking requests before going live at the end of April while Carnoustie are doing the same, opening May 1. Your 2026 Scottish golf trip planning really starts now.

I spoke to Muirfield about their booking system - here’s what I learnt.

Rounds can only be booked directly via the Club website for visitor days Tuesday & Thursdays. The booking process is very easy.

Format of Play for 36 Holes: Morning Fourballs with availability from 08.20am to 10.10am inclusive / Afternoon Foursomes (alternate shot) tee time will be confirmed at the time of booking.

Format of Play for 18 Holes: Morning Fourballs with availability from 10.50am to 12.00pm inclusive.

You increase your chances booking as a four-ball however you do require all names at the point of booking. You can book outwith a four-ball but do reduce your chances.

There’s essentially 25% more tee times available to those booking a 36 hole green fee. The Club explained that approximately 60-70% of visiting golfers book the 36 day ticket which includes lunch. This will cost £605.

If you go 18 holes only, lunch is an additional £36. Worth it by all accounts!

Hurry. Despite some technical issues this morning I have been informed that tee times will sell out for the busy months (April-October) by the end of the week.

No luck. Join the waiting list.

The club do hold your name on days they are oversubscribed and it does work…

Last chance - Greywalls

There is a historical arrangement between the Club and the neighbouring hotel, Greywalls which grants them access to tee times on member days - 20 golfers on Monday and 12 golfers on Friday, May through to September.

Note that this doesn’t include access to the clubhouse and is just one single round. If it wasn’t such a good option, I wouldn’t be sharing. They even have tee times left for sale this summer!

Despite numerous attempts to reach out to the hotel and management (great guest service to be expected…) I failed to learn much more from the hotel directly but I did enjoy just how bad the marketing of these packages were. Don’t worry, one of the world’s best links golf courses won’t look anything like this…

P.S if anyone can contact the hotel better than I can, please send them this rant.

A gate and private driveway to an elite golf course is a rarity in Scotland however once navigated, the links golf experience waiting at Muirfield is the equal to anything you’d play in Scotland.

I should finish up by saying how warm and welcoming the club’s booking team were and appear to be. The image of them being closed off may be true on non-visitor days however even at that, they are now letting golfers into their pro shop on those days. Contact the Club and they’ll endeavour to do all they can to help.

April 1744, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers drew up the first written rules for the game of golf. A competition was played for the prize of the Silver Club, according to 13 Rules of Play, on a five-hole course at Leith Links. The first winner of the trophy, John Rattray, only just escaped beheading for becoming Bonnie Prince Charlie's personal surgeon during the Jacobite Uprising the following year - a statue of him can be seen at Leith Links.

As the popularity of the game grew, Leith Links became overcrowded and the club moved first to Musselburgh, and then further down the East Lothian coast to Muirfield at the end of the nineteenth century to the Tom Morris designed course where they remain today.