Weekend Golf Getaways

Golf Travel, Written From Experience

Not every golf trip needs to be a marathon of tee times. The best escapes balance great courses with memorable meals, places to stay that enhance the experience, and destinations that linger long after the final round.

Weekend Golf Getaways is built to help you find those places. Each featured destination is explored through the full rhythm of a trip — the setting, the atmosphere, the food, the downtime, and the history and character that give a place its identity. And the discoveries that wait beyond the fairways.

Every story here is written to help you picture the trip before you take it — not just the course, but the experience waiting around it.

The perspective behind these stories comes from more than two decades as a full-time golf travel writer and editor — most of them as managing editor of Golf Odyssey, the niche print and digital publication that in its later years became Golf Channel's most exclusive golf travel outlet.

For most of those years I traveled anonymously — experiencing resorts and courses as any traveling golfer would, without special treatment, curated itineraries, or the polished version properties reserve for press visits. Even when travel was hosted, the goal remained the same: to understand what truly defines a trip beyond the planned experience. That habit shaped everything: what I noticed, what I trusted, and what I ultimately wrote.

The stories here draw on those firsthand experiences, refreshed with current research and perspective — to give you a clear and honest sense of how a getaway actually comes together, even as destinations evolve over time.

Because the goal isn’t simply to play great golf.

It’s to take great trips.

Weekend Golf Getaways launches in June 2026 with features on Enchantment in Sedona, Forest Dunes in Northern Michigan, The Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, and The Abaco Club in the Bahamas — with more destinations to follow.