Golf Trip Articles & Planning Guides

Most groups arriving at Pinehurst make the same mistake: they play No. 2 first. Here is the correct sequence for a five-day trip through the resort's best courses.

Something goes wrong on every trip. The captain who prepared for it in advance recovers faster than the one who encounters it as a surprise. Here is the playbook.

The group text is where golf trips live and die. Here is how to run the pre-trip channel so it moves the trip forward instead of slowing it down.

The two-week cancellation is the one that hurts. Here is the captain's playbook for handling it without losing money, momentum, or the group's trust.

The most common source of post-trip friction in group golf is the collection problem. Here is how to prevent it and what to do when prevention fails.

The four-day golf trip is the default format, and it is one day too long for most groups. Here is the case for the three-day trip as the correct unit of the dedicated golf vacation.

The replay is almost always a mistake. Here is why the second round on the same course is a worse use of the trip than the first round on a different one.

The course with the best backstory is rarely the one that produces the best trip. Here is the case against building an entire itinerary around a single famous layout.

A $5,000 golf trip is not always worth the money. Three trips are. Here is how to identify them and why the premium is justified.