Muirfield Booking Buddy

MUIRFIELD BOOKING Buddy Service

Muirfield in Scotland warmly welcomes visitors, but only takes bookings for 4 balls.

ARE YOU A SINGLE GOLFER OR PART OF A 2 OR 3 BALL AND WANT A 2024 MUIRFIELD TEE TIME?

Here’s how I can help…

– Register your dates on my Muirfield Booking Buddy service.
– Specify your preference for 1 or 2 rounds and your group size.
– If your preferences match with another group (or groups) to make up a combined 4 ball I will hook you up so you can make a booking together.
– Book your 2024 Muirfield tee time online in March 2023 (tbc).

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1Contact details

2Dates

3Group size

4Review & submit

1. Your contact details

Please make sure these details are correct - I will use them to notify you of a potential Muirfield Booking date match.

Your name:(Required)

Are you a travel trade professional registering on behalf of a client?(Required)

Yes

Your company name:(Required)

Name of your client / lead golfer:(Required)

Your email:(Required)

Country dialling code:(Required)

Cell / mobile number:(Required)

Your back up cell / mobile number will be used where it has not been possible to make contact via email. It will only be shared with your Muirfield Booking Buddy

2. Your preferred dates to play at Muirfield (dd/mm/yyyy)

Before entering your available dates:
1. Check the Current Date Requests table below for current Muirfield booking requests.
2. Check the Muirfield Visitors page and the Muirfield Visitors Notes of Guidance page .
3. Note: This is for 2024 and beyond; 2023 being almost at capacity.
4. Note: Visitor days are Tuesdays & Thursdays (excl. public holidays).
5. Decide whether you wish to play 18 or 36 holes or either.

Enter up to 5 dates (please enter at least 1 date):

Date 1:(Required)

Date 2:

Date 3:

Date 4:

Date 5:

Do you wish to play 18 or 36 holes:(Required)

18 holes

36 holes

Would you agree to play 36 holes instead if it created a match allowing you to make a tee time booking?(Required)

Yes, I would be prepared to play 36 holes

No, I only wish to play 18 holes

Would you agree to play 18 holes instead if it created a match allowing you to make a tee time booking?(Required)

Yes, I would be prepared to play 18 holes

No, I only wish to play 36 holes

3. Your group size

Before entering your group size please note group bookings are restricted to no more than 12 players.

Number of golfers in your group:(Required)

Please tell us how you heard about Muirfield Buddy:(Required)

4. Your consent

Consent(Required)

I accept the following terms:

The success of the Muirfield Booking Buddy scheme relies 100% on your goodwill and honest intentions.  
So please tick the box to accept the following terms and conditions:

- I grant Ginger Beer Golf Travel permission to share my available dates and preferences above on its own website or other marketing channels for the purposes of soliciting other participants in the Muirfield Booking Buddy scheme and, ultimately, to find me a Muirfield Booking Buddy. Please note this excludes sharing personal information.  

- I grant Ginger Beer Golf Travel permission to share my contact details with my Muirfield Booking Buddy. My Muirfield Booking Buddy is any other participant(s) in the Muirfield Booking Buddy scheme where there is a date match, i.e. where a) at least one of their available dates matches at least one of my available dates above, b) their preference to play either 18 or 36 holes matches mine, and c) the combined number of players is 4, 8 or 12, such that collectively we are eligible to make a Muirfield booking.

- I accept that if and when Ginger Beer Golf Travel finds me a Muirfield Booking Buddy, my available dates and preferences will cease to be active on the Muirfield Booking Buddy system.

- I submit my details to join the Muirfield Booking Buddy scheme in good faith and with best intentions that should I find a Muirfield Booking Buddy, I will make a booking with them to play Muirfield.

- If my available dates or preferences change and I DON’T yet have a Muirfield Booking Buddy I will make Ginger Beer Golf Travel aware immediately.

- If my available dates or preferences change and I DO have a Muirfield Booking Buddy I will make both my Muirfield Booking Buddy and Ginger Beer Golf Travel aware immediately.

- In case of any dispute, common sense and the majority view should prevail. Ginger Beer will not be obliged to intervene in dispute resolution.

- Upon completion of my registration, I agree to share news of my Muirfield Booking Buddy registration on my social media accounts and more generally with my friends, family and colleagues.  

- I understand:  
i. This service does not guarantee that Ginger Beer Golf Travel will find me a Muirfield Booking Buddy.
ii. Even if Ginger Beer Golf Travel finds me a Muirfield Booking Buddy, the responsibility to book a tee time at Muirfield, including payment arrangements, rests solely and jointly between me and my Muirfield Booking Buddy. Ginger Beer Golf Travel will be in no way responsible for any issues arising during or after the process of booking a Muirfield tee time.
  iii. This service does not guarantee Muirfield tee time booking success.
iv. I hold neither Ginger Beer Golf Travel nor my Muirfield Booking Buddy in any way responsible in the event that my Muirfield Booking Buddy withdraws from the scheme or changes their available dates or preferences, rendering invalid my eligibility to book a Muirfield tee time.

Do you have any questions for me?

5. Review & submit

Please be sure to check these details carefully before submitting your application.
If any information is wrong, use the page links (above) or previous button (below) to correct your input. You will receive a copy by email for your records.

1. Your contact details:
{User name(A) (First):4.3} {User name(A) (Last):4.6} {EMAIL(A):5}
Cell/mobile - {Country dialling code::9} {Phone number::10}
Are you a travel trade professional registering on behalf of a client? - {Are you a travel trade professional registering on behalf of a client?:55}
{Your company name::56} | {Name of your client / lead golfer: (First):57.3} {Name of your client / lead golfer: (Last):57.6}

2. The dates you wish to register:
{DATE 1(A):15:l F jS Y} | {DATE 2(A):17:l F jS Y} | {DATE 3(A):21:l F jS Y} | {DATE 4(A):24:l F jS Y} | {DATE 5(A):27:l F jS Y}
Do you wish to play 18 or 36 holes? {Do you wish to play 18 or 36 holes::61}
{Would you agree to play 36 holes instead if it created a match allowing you to make a tee time booking?:60} | {Would you agree to play 18 holes instead if it created a match allowing you to make a tee time booking?:59}

3. Your group size: {Number of golfers in your group::65}
How did you hear about Muirfield Booking Buddy? {how did you hear about BB(A):35}
{other(A):36}
4. You consented to the terms and conditions of Muirfield Booking Buddy
Your questions:

Ref. number

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Current Muirfield Booking Buddy date match requests – view here:

Sample data only

**** Service just launched, hence sample data only. Live data updated here soon.****

How to read the table

Tuesday 25th April 2023 : a group of 3 golfers wishes to play 18 holes. So, 1 more 18 hole golfer is required to make up a 4 ball to book a Muirfield tee time together. Group is flexible to play 18 or 36 holes, so it is also happy to make up a 36 hole 4 ball with 1 other golfer who only wishes to play 36 holes.

Tuesday 2nd May 2023 : a group of 2 golfers wishes to play 36 holes. So, 2 more 36 hole golfers are required to make up a 4 ball to book a Muirfield tee time together. Group is not flexible to play 18 or 36 holes, so it does not wish to make up a 18 hole 4 ball with 2 other golfers who only wish to play 18 holes.

How MUirfield Booking Buddy Works

Decide when in 2024 you would like a Muirfield tee time.
Check out my booking summary below.
Register for my Muirfield Booking Buddy Service (free for a limited period).

Submit up to 5 dates, whether you want to play one or two rounds and your group size.
I will add you to a database of other Booking Buddy golfers looking to team up and make a Muirfield tee time booking.

If your preferences match and you make up a 4 ball I will hook you up.
You are now eligible as a combined 4 ball to book a Muirfield tee time together.

Questions?

Do I need Muirfield Booking Buddy?

YES if you are a 3 ball, 2 ball or single golfer.
WHY? Because Muirfield only takes visitor bookings from 4 balls.

What if I score a match?

If you get a match with another group (or groups) and make up a 4 ball I will connect you to your Muirfield Booking Buddy via email introduction.

What happens then?

It’s down to you and your Booking Buddy from this point on to make arrangements.
Book your 2024 Muirfield tee time online in March 2023 immediately it opens for bookings (date and time tbc).

More than 4 golfers with a match?

The first golfers by registration date who make up a 4 ball will be grouped together. Then the next 4 and so on.

More than 4 golfers in your group?

Say you are a group of 5 then register on Muirfield Booking Buddy all the same.
If you match with another group (or groups) to make 8 players in total, you can make your Muirfield tee time booking as two 4 balls. The maximum group size is 12 or 3 tee times.

Booking a Muirfield tee time – summary of what you need to know

Information taken from Muirfield’s web site (https://www.muirfield.org.uk/visitors-new/ ) and summarised below:

Availability

A Muirfield tee time is a hot ticket.

Visitors are welcome on Tuesday and Thursdays (except Public Holidays).
For the peak golfing season May through September tee times are limited.
In fact, Muirfield is pretty much sold out for 2022 and 2023.
Visitor tee times bookings for 2024 will open in mid-March 2023. Tee times will sell out quickly on a first come, first served basis. All peak season times for 2023 sold out in a matter of hours.

So you need to plan NOW and book as soon as the booking window opens.

Number of Muirfield tee times available

There are 22 weeks in the peak season of May to September 2024

Each week, Muirfield visitor tee times are available on 2 days, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Excluding Bank Holidays that is 44 days of visitor tee times.
Each day there are 20 tee times available for visitors, made up of 8 tee times for visitors wishing to play 18 holes and 12 tee times for visitors wishing to play 36 holes.

That’s around just 880 tee times available to book for the whole of the peak season (352 tee times for 18 holes and 532 for 36).

Golfer profile

Age
Visitors must have a minimum age of 16.
Handicap
Visitors must have a recognised handicap of 18 or less and should bring their certified handicap certificates with them to present prior to play.
Bookings
Names and handicaps of all players is required, together with full payment of green fees (£325 for one round and £460 for two rounds on the day in 2023). Most credit cards (with the exception of Diners Card) are accepted.
Group size
Bookings will not be taken for three balls, two balls or singles. The maximum group size is 12.

So the minimum group size accepted for booking is FOUR

Format of play

You can book to play one or two rounds on the day

If you book 18 holes:
Play is in fourballs in the morning (tee time availability from 10:50 to 12:00 incl)
If you book 36 holes:
Play is in fourballs in the morning (tee time availability from 08:20 to 10:10 incl) and foursomes (alternate shot) in the afternoon (tee time confirmed at time of booking).

Facilities & dress code

Practice facilities
Driving range, chipping area and putting green are available prior to play. Complimentary practice balls are provided.
Lunch
Lunch is served between 12:30 and 15:00 and is available only to those playing golf.
Jacket and tie required for gentlemen, smart / casual (not golf clothing) for ladies.
£35 in 2023. 2024 tbc

Booking conditions & guidance notes

Please ensure you read all Muirfield’s booking information prior to booking your tee time:

Visitor Booking

Visitors Notes of Guidance

Buggy Safety Policy

“For singles, two and three balls, my unique simple-to-use Muirfield Booking Buddy service helps you find playing partners so you and your fellow golfers are eligible to book a 2024 Muirfield tee time together.
chris Toll, ginger beer golf travel

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