6 Ways to Save Big on Your Next Golf Trip

Everybody loves a deal

1. Wake up Early and play before 8:00 to save anywhere between $5 and $23 on your golf round, depending on which month and where you play. Courses offering the early-morning deals include Orange Lake, Celebration, Falcon's Fire, Grande Pines, Hawk's Landing, Hunter's Creek, MetroWest, Mystic Dunes, Ridgewood Lakes and Shingle Creek.

2. Sleep In! Many courses drop their rates at 12:00 or 1:00, resulting in great savings for you. Examples include ChampionsGate, Diamondback, Hunter's Creek, Orange Lake and Southern Dunes. Even better, Orange County National and Celebration lower their daily-rate green fees at 11:30.

3. Play for Free even in high season at Harmony Golf Preserve in Orlando where your afternoon 9 holes is completely free of charge with your paid morning 18-hole round booked through Tee Times USA. This offer is valid for play December 26, 2010 through May 9, 2011.

4. Stay for Free at resorts and hotels that offer free night specials. Dozens of Tee Times USA resort and hotel partners are offering free nights at various times of the year. Check out free night specials at Mystic Dunes, Celebrity Resorts, Emerald Greens, Innisbrook Resort, Orange Lake Resort, and Grand Cypress Resort -- to name just a few.

5. Choose your Days carefully. By playing golf at Orange County National in Orlando on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday after 11:30 during peak winter season, you'll save over $30 compared to the courses' morning rate or weekends. Also in Orlando, Orange Lake Resort actually charges less on the weekends than on weekdays.

6. Unlimited Golf Deals abound this year. This means that during certain months and at some very impressive courses, you can play all day for the price of a morning round. Don't miss these unlimited golf deals at courses such Grande Pines, Harmony, ChampionsGate and Bridgewater in Orlando; and Palencia near Jacksonville.