Golf travel, examined by region. Each destination covers courses, accommodation, and practical planning.
11 destinations
Pete Dye's Harbour Town, RBC Heritage host since 1969, leads a roster of roughly twenty-four courses across a 12-mile barrier island you can cross by bike.
Roughly 90 courses along 60 miles of coastline, green fees from $30 to $300, inside a packaged-trip economy built around the visiting golfer.
Eighty courses in the shadow of the theme parks, shaped by Palmer, Nicklaus, Watson, Norman, and Faldo.
130 Years of Golf, One Village, Ten Courses, and the Institutional Heart of the American Game
Florida's interior golf corridor. No beach, no parks, just extraordinary courses rising from phosphate mines.
Five courses on a 10-mile barrier island 40 minutes from Charleston, anchored by Pete Dye's Ocean Course — host of the 1991 Ryder Cup and two PGA Championships.
Where golfers retire — and where visiting golfers should steal their courses.
Twenty-six courses across eleven Alabama sites, all public, all under $200, and all part of a road trip that has no equivalent in American golf.
The PGA Tour's backyard, where the island green is the beginning of the conversation rather than the end of it.
Georgia, United States
The Georgia coast where Forbes Five-Star hospitality meets PGA Tour golf, and where discretion is the prevailing currency.
Pete Dye and Tom Fazio at Kingsmill, Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr. at the Golden Horseshoe — five designer courses a short drive from the Colonial Williamsburg historic district.
4 destinations
The golf trip that comes with everything else. Desert courses by day, the Strip by night.
Since 2022, the PGA of America's Texas headquarters — Gil Hanse's Fields Ranch East, Beau Welling's Fields Ranch West, a 10-hole short course, and the Omni resort on 660 acres.
The Sonoran Desert corridor that set the standard for American winter golf, with 18 courses across four tiers and resort infrastructure to match.
Four Tom Fazio layouts at Omni Barton Creek and the Hill Country limestone, with the best live music and barbecue scene in Texas.
4 destinations
Eight courses on twenty miles of Pacific coastline, from a $695 green fee to a $53 municipal.
Forty miles of desert floor, more than 100 courses, and the mountain light that makes the Coachella Valley singular.
Hawaii, United States
Volcanic ridgelines, ancient lava fields, and Pacific panoramas across two islands that justify every mile of the flight and every dollar of the green fee.
Mountain golf at 6,000 feet, where the ball carries long and the season runs short.
2 destinations
Five walking-only links courses on a remote stretch of the Oregon coast, built for the golfer who values design over convenience.
Idaho, United States
The floating green and beyond. Mountain golf in the Idaho panhandle, where five courses span the lakes and forests of a landscape most golfers have never considered.
5 destinations
Wisconsin, United States
America's inland links pilgrimage. Walking-only courses from the game's best modern architects, rising from glacial sand in central Wisconsin.
Missouri, United States
Five courses from five legendary designers on 4,600 acres of Ozarks wilderness, anchored by Tiger Woods' first public-access design.
Where the Ryder Cup came to the Midwest. Pete Dye's lakeside masterpieces.
Michigan, United States
The Great Lakes golf corridor from Traverse City to Petoskey, where summer conditions rival anything in the country and the architecture ranges from Doak reversible routing to Jones Sr. championship design.
Top of the Rock by Jack Nicklaus, the Payne Stewart Golf Club, and Ledgestone — a concentration of design quality hiding inside an Ozarks lakes town.