Bots, software programs that quickly perform automated tasks, are a “serious issue” in securing tee times at Bethpage State Park’s five golf courses, according to a report published by the Offices of the State Inspector General on Friday.

While the report revealed that manipulating the park’s online reservation system to secure tee times — especially at the famed Black course, which was increasingly relevant this year as the site of September’s Ryder Cup — is a “serious threat to the integrity of the booking systems of high demand public golf courses” like Bethpage, it said that “little evidence of the reselling of tee times by individuals or in online marketplaces was uncovered.”

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation already has taken measures to i

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