Golf Trip Articles & Planning Guides

Pacific Dunes books up faster than any other course at Bandon Dunes. Here is how to build a complete, excellent Bandon trip without it.

Streamsong has three elite courses and two and a half days of tee times to fill. The order in which you play them is not arbitrary. Here is the correct sequence.

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.