About Golf Weather Intelligence
Golf Weather Intelligence (GWI) is a free site built to answer one question: when is the best time to play golf?
Why we built it
Most golfers check the same weather app they use for everything else. Those apps are built for the whole day, not for four hours on an open course. They'll tell you there's a 30% chance of rain and 15 mph wind. They won't tell you whether that rain arrives on the 4th hole or after you're back in the parking lot, or whether the wind picks up just as you make the turn.
GWI started in Dallas–Fort Worth, where a beautiful spring morning can turn into an afternoon thunderstorm and summer heat can make a 1:00 p.m. round miserable. We wanted one place that scores the weather for an actual round of golf and then shows which tee times are open in that window.
What GWI does
- Scores every tee time. Each possible start time gets a 0–100 score based on rain, wind, temperature, thunder risk and cloud cover over the full four-hour round. Read how the GWI score works for the details.
- Finds the best window. GWI highlights the stretch of tee times with the best conditions for the day, so you can plan around the weather instead of guessing.
- Flags what matters for golf. Lightning risk, strong gusts, extreme heat or cold, and rounds that would run past sunset are called out clearly. Minor details are not.
- Shows live tee times. In Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta, GWI pulls available tee times from course booking systems and sorts them so you can compare weather and price in one place. Booking happens directly with the course or its booking partner.
- Covers the local golf scene. We also keep a list of golf events around Dallas–Fort Worth and a regularly updated page of golf equipment deals.
How we keep it honest
Forecasts come from Open-Meteo, which draws on models from national weather services. Course maps use OpenStreetMap data. The GWI score is calculated the same way for every course, and no course pays to rank higher.
Some links on the Golf Deals page are affiliate links, and the site may show ads. These help keep GWI free, and they never affect weather scores or which deals we list. Our privacy policy and affiliate disclosure explains this in full.
A forecast is never a guarantee. GWI is a planning tool. Always check conditions on the day you play, follow your course's alerts, and get off the course if you hear thunder.
Contact
Questions, a course we're missing, or a forecast that looked wrong? Email wballztrading1@gmail.com. We read every message.