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Three days of golf for dads bringing a kid into the game. You play a full round every day. Your kid gets a lesson, a practice round, and a father-son competition to finish.
Apply for the first tripTakes a minute. Nothing to pay, nothing to commit to.
Most dads we talk to get stuck in the same place. They want to take their kid on a golf trip. They don't want that kid's first real round to be five hours of holding up the group behind, and they don't want to give up their own golf to make it work. So it stays a someday trip.
This is our attempt at the version that actually works, which meant giving the two of you separate days that meet in the middle. Dads play real golf — a full round every day, on a course worth flying for. Kids get their own track with a teaching pro, pitched at a kid who can already swing a club but hasn't played much golf, and paced so that nothing about it feels like being tested. Then everyone eats dinner together and lies about how it went.
Planning a trip like this is the reason Golf Trip Index exists in the first place. Picking a good course is the easy part; the tee time order, the lodging, the drive from the airport, and what a nine-year-old does between four and six o'clock are the parts that decide whether anyone wants to come back. We do that work for other people's trips. This one we're running ourselves.
Day one
You play your round. Your kid spends the time with a teaching pro — tidying up the swing they already have, working through a few clubs, and enough short game to be useful tomorrow. Not a first lesson, and not swing theory. No video.
Day two
The kids go out on a golf course, most of them for the first time. Forward tees, a handful of holes, no card and no score. It exists so that day three isn't anyone's first time walking onto a tee. You play your own round again.
Day three
A short father-son competition, set up so a new golfer can contribute and a bad hole can't sink you. It's the reason the kids take days one and two seriously. It is not the reason to come.
Tee times, the exact competition format, and how long the kids' sessions run all depend on the host resort, so we're not going to pretend to know them yet. The shape of the three days doesn't change.
The name says father-son. If your family doesn't line up with that exactly, apply anyway and tell us in the form.
One cohort is being planned. This is a waitlist, not a booking — there's nothing to pay and no date to choose, because there isn't one yet. Tell us who's coming and where you'd be flying from, and we'll come back to you as the details firm up.
Not announced yet. We're in conversation with a short list of resorts and we're not going to name one before it's signed. Applying now puts you first in line to hear, and commits you to nothing.
We don't have a number yet, because we don't have a venue yet. What we can tell you is the shape of it: this is a paid trip. Nothing here is comped and nobody is being hosted for free, so the price will look like a real golf trip for two. You'll see the full cost, itemised, before we ask you for anything.
They need to be able to swing a club and make contact reasonably often. A season of range trips, or a few holes with you on a summer evening, is exactly the level this is built around. What they don't need is rounds of golf behind them — day two exists precisely so that day three isn't their first time on a course. At the other end: if your kid is already playing junior tournaments and chasing a scoring average, they'll be bored here.
Bring them if you have them. If you don't, say so in the form. Sorting out a cut-down set for a week is a normal thing to arrange with a host resort, and we'd rather know the count up front than have you buy a set you'll outgrow in a season. We'll confirm what's available once the venue is set.
Most likely, yes. Fill the form in for one of them and tell us about the others in the last box. The number of kids is the thing that decides how the lessons get staffed, so it genuinely changes the planning — we need the real count, not the tidy one.
No, and that's the point. Dads play their own golf; kids have their own track with a pro. You're together at the start and end of each day, and on the course together on day three.
