Posted 3/19/2024, 4:18:10 PM
Golfers Outraged Over Black Market Reselling Los Angeles Public Golf Tee Times for High Fees
- Golfers expressed outrage at a black market for Los Angeles city golf course tee times, where brokers buy up slots and resell them for a fee
- The practice makes public course tee times impossible to get without paying brokers up to $40 extra per slot
- Within the Korean community, it's common knowledge that brokers use senior memberships to book morning and afternoon times to resell
- Golfers and advisory board members pushed for changes like randomly releasing canceled tee times to guard against brokering
- After a golf influencer with 200k Instagram followers spotlighted the issue, dozens packed a meeting demanding officials address the problem