Royal Troon Tee Times and Booking

How booking Royal Troon works

Visitor tee times on the Old Course are booked directly with the club, through its online tee booking system or by phone and email, and visitor play is generally concentrated on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. As a working members' club and a regular Open venue, Troon protects member access and championship preparation, so the visitor windows are finite and they fill. For a four ball in the summer months you should be planning roughly five to six months ahead; single players and pairs can often find times a little closer in, because they slot into gaps a full group cannot.

The standard visitor product is a day ticket that includes a round on the championship Old Course and a round on the neighbouring Portland Course, which is a fine links in its own right and the perfect way to fill the day around the marquee round. Book the day ticket, take the Old in the morning when the tee sheet and the light are best, and play the Portland after lunch. Confirm the current visitor days and any seasonal restrictions when you reserve, because they shift around Open qualifying and member events.

The 2026 green fee

Royal Troon's day ticket has recently been priced around £495 per golfer for the Old and Portland combination, with PGA members paying a reduced rate of around £405. These figures are indicative, set by the club, and they move with the season, so always confirm the current green fee directly before booking. For a single round or a different package, ask the club what is available on your dates; the day ticket is the headline product but not the only one.

Timing the round and the trip

When to play

May through September gives the firmest links turf, the truest greens and the longest daylight on the Ayrshire coast, which is why it is also the busiest and dearest window. The shoulder months either side can deliver better value and quieter tee sheets, at the cost of more weather and softer ground. Whatever the month, the wind off the Firth of Clyde is the constant, and the outward holes downwind and the brutal inward stretch into it are the whole examination at Troon. Pack for it.

Make it an Ayrshire trip

Troon sits in the richest concentration of championship links in Scotland outside Fife, so very few visitors play it in isolation. Build the trip around it: pair the Old Course with Turnberry's Ailsa down the coast, add Prestwick, the birthplace of the Open, next door, and you have one of the great golf weeks anywhere. Booking the courses in the right order and on the right days is the part worth getting help with, because each club guards its tee sheet differently.

On the day

Arrive in good time for the range and the putting green, consider a caddie for the lines and the local knowledge, and respect a brisk members' pace on a course that does not suffer slow play. The Postage Stamp eighth is the photograph everyone wants, but it is the long par 4s on the way home that decide the round, so club honestly and keep the ball under the wind. Then take an unhurried lunch in a clubhouse steeped in Open history before the Portland in the afternoon.