Why we created Hosted Tours

A lot of the people who call us are not in a golf group. They play with friends who do not want to travel, or partners who have retired from the game, or they want to do something their regular group cannot afford or will not commit to. They have a destination in mind and no one to go with.

We built Hosted Tours for them. And then discovered that people who do have a group often prefer them anyway.

Here is how a Hosted Tour works: we take a destination we know extremely well — Scotland, South Africa, Portugal, Turkey — and build a definitive version of it. The best courses. The right hotels. The routing that makes geographical and logistical sense. Then we open it to eight to twelve golfers, set fixed departure dates, and one of our specialists goes with you.

Not to handle logistics from a distance. Actually comes. Plays every round.

This changes the experience in a way that is hard to convey until you have done it. The specialist knows when the greens at Royal Dornoch are running fast before you tee off. They know which room at the hotel has the view worth requesting. They know the right caddie for the right player. They have done this routing before and can tell you, before the 14th, that the approach plays half a club longer than the yardage suggests because of the wind off the firth.

They also know everyone in the group after the first evening, which means they spend the trip quietly making sure that the 8 handicapper and the 20 handicapper are both having the round of their lives, just in different ways.

For solo golfers, this is simply the best answer to a genuine problem: you can join a group of people who share your interest and your standards, travel with a level of curation you could not arrange yourself, and come home having made friends you will likely go back with in two years.

For existing groups, it means outsourcing the planning entirely to someone who has done it before — and having someone on the ground whose job is to make it excellent.

Our Scotland Hosted Tour departs May 14th. Eight places. Three remain.