Destinations

The desert golf capital that finally has a nightlife scene to match the tee sheet.

The American golf pilgrimage — nine courses, one village, and a Donald Ross sermon in every direction.

The most ambitious golf resort in America, and it earns the trip every time.

The best two-course resort in North America, and your passport stays in the drawer.

The most dramatic golf backdrop on earth. The Rockies don't care about your handicap.

Sand Hills with a major airport — Coore & Crenshaw on 85-foot dunes, 42 miles from Denver.

The most expensive round in American golf, and the one you'll never argue you shouldn't have played.

The most honest golf trip in America — 100 courses, fair prices, and Caledonia waiting at the end of the drive.

The trip that actually gets approved — Harbour Town, a beach, and no connecting flights.

The Ocean Course is a bucket-list beating, and the rest of the island is the cold compress.

The only golf trip where the golf is great and somehow still the third-best thing about the weekend.

Desert golf done right — book the rounds, book the dinners, and leave the parka at home.

An accidental Irish links on the Wisconsin shoreline, and one of the best four-round weekends in American golf.

The quietest great golf resort in America, and the regulars would prefer to keep it that way.

The best golf-only trip in Florida, with zero distractions and three courses that earn the trip on their own.

America's best summer golf hiding in plain sight — Lake Michigan bluffs, empty tee sheets, and a wine country backstop.

A serious mid-Atlantic golf week hiding behind a tricorn hat.

The most visually absurd round of golf you'll play in America, full stop.

A top-shelf Pete Dye and an original Donald Ross, sitting in rural Indiana, priced like neither of those things is true.

The Northeast's best golf trip is the one nobody's bragging about on Instagram.

Gaylord is 36 holes a day, a fireplace at night, and a credit card that still works on Sunday.

Beach trip with a real golf itinerary attached — and a hidden gem at Camp Creek that's better than anything inside the resort gates.

The cheapest way to play Erin Hills, Whistling Straits, and Sand Valley in the same week.

The Myrtle Beach trip for groups who've outgrown Myrtle Beach.

The Monterey Peninsula isn't a Pebble Beach trip — it's five great rounds and Pebble is just one of them.

Tiger Woods. Coore & Crenshaw. Jack Nicklaus. One resort in the Missouri Ozarks — and it's all public.

A US Open venue on public cliffs above the Pacific, priced like a public course should be.

Red rock desert golf between Zion and Las Vegas — the Southwest trip that Scottsdale groups haven't found yet.

The links pilgrimage that converts skeptics into believers — without the full Scottish commitment.

The home of golf, and the only trip where the pub window faces the first tee of the most famous course on earth.

The greatest links circuit on earth, and the 7th at Ballybunion is the hole you'll spend the rest of your life trying to describe.

Two of the five best courses in the world, two hours apart — there is no easier case for an international golf trip.

The links region the rest of the world hasn't found yet — and we'd like to keep it that way.

The longest drive in Scottish golf, and the one nobody regrets making.

The only Scottish golf trip where the non-golfers come back as happy as the golfers.

The original links circuit, played on the ground where championship golf was actually invented.

The end of the road in County Kerry, and one of the purest links experiences in Ireland.

The Fife coast circuit Americans skip because they were too busy chasing a tee time on the Old Course.

Europe's best golf weather, half the price of Spain, and somehow still a secret on this side of the Atlantic.

Ryder Cup pedigree, Mediterranean lunches, and the rare European golf trip your non-golfing friends will want in on.

Real golf, world-class food, and an island that doesn't need the golf to justify the trip.

The Spain trip for groups who want Barcelona, Catalan wine country, and tour-grade golf without the Marbella crowds.

Genuine dune links, a world-class city, and zero crowds — the European golf trip nobody's taking yet.

The Caribbean's best golf course, a legitimate second act on the cliffs, and a resort that earns the price tag.

Cabot's Caribbean play: a Coore-Crenshaw cliffside course on the most dramatic island in the eastern Caribbean.

The unanimous-approval golf trip: real courses, guaranteed sun, and the Caribbean when you're done.

The Caribbean golf trip with no passport, no excuses, and two RTJ courses worth the airfare alone.

One course, one beach, one of the best non-golf golf trips in the Caribbean.

The Riviera Maya for groups who want their tequila neat and their golf course in a jungle, not a brochure.

The longest flight on the list, and the only one where the non-golfers come home as the loudest evangelists.

The two best links courses nobody in your foursome has played, built on a Tasmanian sheep farm at the edge of the world.

One of the ten best courses in the world is sitting on a cliff in Sydney, and the Americans haven't found it yet.

Doak on a New Zealand clifftop, with the Pacific 500 feet below and nothing between you and the horizon.

Greg Norman, Colin Montgomerie, and South China Sea views — at green fees that'll make you double-check the conversion.

The cheapest world-class golf trip you can take with a passport — and almost nobody from your club has been.

World-class golf, serious wine country, and Table Mountain in the background — the bucket-list trip Americans haven't figured out yet.

A Gary Player championship course, a casino palace, and live crocodiles on the 13th — Sun City doesn't do subtle, and that's the point.