play_sport

Where to PLAY a sport on the East End: public and club courts, school fields, golf, beach volleyball, surf breaks, mountain-bike and trail-running routes, the skate park, the disc golf course, sailing, riding stables — and the recurring basketball pickup runs. Call this for any where-can-I-play, is-there-a-court, pickup-game, tee-time or is-there-a-game-tonight question, and call it before naming anywhere from memory, because the field that decides the afternoon is not the name. access says who gets on: 12 of these are members-only and they include exactly the names a recommendation reaches for (Maidstone Club; Shinnecock Hills Golf Club; Topping Riding Club; The Meadow Club of Southampton — Paddle Tennis; Breakwater Yacht Club — Sailing), so the fluent answer to "where do I play golf in Southampton" is a course nobody can walk onto, while Montauk Downs, a state park anyone can book, is in the same list. access: permit means the play is free and the PARKING is not (Ditch Plains, Indian Wells, Main Beach) — hand that half to parking_permit_rules. access: not-published is a real third answer: the record shows open play and the guide holds no rate, so do not round it up to free. Never derive a price from access — it is a tag with no figure behind it; the only rates here are the ones already written into notes, which are the operator's own published figures as an editor read them, so quote those in place and invent nothing around them. notes is also where the guide records its own doubt: several say outright that a court or a surf claim is unconfirmed local knowledge rather than something the operator publishes, and that caveat has to travel with the recommendation. checkedAndNotThere is the field to read first: the guide opened a slot for a sport, went looking for an operator and found NONE, so padel, badminton, boxing and ice skating have no verified East End venue at all and two announced pickleball courts are unbuilt or unsourced — read that out as a verified no, because inventing a plausible club to fill it is the exact failure this connector exists to prevent. pickup gives each basketball run's day and time with runsToday, startsAt/endsAt and alreadyOverToday computed on the East End's clock, and flags openCourt for the outdoor courts published as daily dawn-to-dusk — somewhere to shoot, not a game to turn up to. Pass access to filter to what the asker can actually use; the ones that fail come back in ruledOut with the reason. With no argument nothing is looked up: you get the sports and towns covered, so ask. Returns up to 8.