Our 9 picks for amazing golf trips you need to take in 2024

At GOLF.com, we’re right here to enhance your sport on the course. But whereas we will’t assure you break par this 12 months, we will promise you’ll have a blast teeing it up at one among these 9 epic golf places, hand-picked by our well-traveled staffers.

Our 9 picks for amazing golf trips you need to take in 2024

Sean Zak, senior author: Michigan’s higher peninsula is wildly underrated. Not the best to get to, however there are three or 4 top-notch public programs awaiting you in Da U.P. The journey I intend on taking is an English Premier League/English golf hyperlinks crossover occasion. Three matches, 4 rounds, one week. Hopefully Mother Nature performs properly.

Alan Bastable, government editor: Tampa, Fla., isn’t precisely a booming golf city, but when you’re keen to drive a bit across the surrounding space, it has grow to be a sneaky-good buddies-trip spot. And I’m not simply saying that — I’m truly headed there later this month with three buddies! Flights from the Northeast are inexpensive (I paid lower than $200 RT), as are Airbnbs, and the golf is bettering. In city, the headliners embrace the Copperhead course at Innisbrook (dwelling of a PGA Tour occasion) and TPC Tampa. But there are also wonderful choices on the outskirts: An simple hour(ish) drive south of downtown, you’ve received the wealth of imaginative programs at Streamsong, whereas roughly the identical distance north you can spend the day at Citrus Farms, Cabot’s spanking-new remake of the wonderful property previously generally known as World Woods. If you’re a pigskin fanatic, sneak in a Bucs sport, too, and you’ll have your self a pleasant little four-day jaunt.

Ryan Barath, tools editor: Prince Edward Island, up on the East Coast of Canada. I used to be there this previous fall and all the journey was a blast with a ton of programs to select from. If you can catch a flight to Toronto, then you can get to PEI on one other brief direct flight (and I like to remind my American buddies that thanks to the foreign money trade, your greenback goes over 30 p.c additional).

Jack Hirsh, assistant editor: Bend, Ore. Everyone is aware of Bandon, however there’s a ton of nice golf 5 hours east, on the opposite aspect of the Cascades. Not to be confused with North Bend, the placement of the airport half-hour north of the Oregon coast resort. Call me biased since I referred to as Central Oregon dwelling for two years, however these years had been stuffed with excellent climate, stunning nature and world-class golf. There’s just a little one thing for everybody from resort tracks like Sunriver’s Crosswater Course, Brasada Ranch, Tetherow, Pronghorn and Black Butte Ranch to day by day charges like Widgi Creek, Aspen Lakes, Meadow Lakes and Juniper. If you can handle a tee time on the personal Bend Golf Club, do it, as there are few programs extra underneath the radar than the Chandler Eagn design. You additionally not often have to fear about climate impacting your spherical as Bend will get about 300 days of sunshine a 12 months. It’s even potential to get a couple of ski/snowboard runs in earlier than rounds in March-May with Mt. Bachelor simply half-hour away. And in case you are questioning, there isn’t a golf course in the realm that doesn’t have spectacular mountain views.

Josh Sens, senior author: In our courageous new age of high-end vacation spot golf, Myrtle Beach can appear to be yesterday’s information — the sort of place design snobs curl their lips at. But maintain an open thoughts, and you understand the Grand Strand nonetheless has loads going for it past the package deal offers and discount costs. Are you a Tom Doak fan? One of his early works is right here, the Heathland Course at Legends Golf Club, which lives up to its identify in its appear and feel. What in regards to the late Mike Stranz, cult structure figure-turned-Instagram darling? He left behind a pair of positive designs — True Blue and Caledonia — on Pawleys Island, some 40 minutes south of the airport and well worth the drive. With such a excessive focus of programs in the realm, you’ll need to decide your spots (the Dunes Club, by Robert Trent Jones Sr., is one other that deserves your consideration). But that isn’t arduous to do, particularly if you go to in the shoulder seasons, when the summer time crowds have thinned, the temperatures have cooled and the stay-and-play provides come comparatively low-cost in contrast to what you discover at different spots that have a tendency to dominate the headlines these days.

James Colgan, information and options editor: So many good locations on the record right here, so I’ll throw a curveball: Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. I went to Banff on a ski journey a couple of years in the past, and it stays the single-coolest place I’ve ever visited. The considered visiting in the nice and cozy summer time months — when the snow melts and the wildlife emerges — is nothing shy of intoxicating, and the variety of attention-grabbing, scenic golf programs solely provides to the intrigue.

Nick Dimengo, instruction editor: Whistler, B.C. Living in Seattle, many individuals simply assume a three-hour highway journey down to Oregon is the way in which to go, however one shouldn’t overlook our neighbors to the north! With Whistler being solely a few 3.5-hour haul, I extremely counsel crossing the border for a weekend getaway — whether or not for a boys journey or with your loved ones. In addition to having world-class snowboarding, eating and lodging, Whistler additionally occurs to have some fairly unimaginable golf programs, all of that are fairly priced. From Big Sky Golf Club (which runs alongside Mount Currie to supply spectacular views) to Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s design at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club — and many in-between, together with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer designs — Whistler has luxury-level designs for golfers of all ability ranges.

Jessica Marksbury, senior editor: I’m nonetheless buzzing with fond recollections of my few days at Pinehurst from GOLF’s 2021 Top 100 Teacher Summit — and that was in the comparatively chilly month of November! (Still enjoyably playable!) With the resort’s No. 10 course opening this spring, Pinehurst — which is already fabulous and ultra-family-friendly — would be the must-visit vacation spot of the 12 months. The golf, the meals, the setting — it’s simply superior, regardless of the season. But little doubt the warm-weather months are notably epic.

Zephyr Melton, assistant editor: My colleagues have outlined a reasonably nice record above, so I’ll toss out an apparent omission in Scottsdale, Ariz. We’ve trekked out that method the previous two winters for our Top 100 Teachers Retreat, and I’ve come away impressed every time. If you stay in a cold-weather state, there isn’t significantly better for your {golfing} soul in the winter than a couple of days on the golf course in the desert.