Planning on a golf trip anytime soon? If so, lucky you!
This Golf Week writer has some valuable tips for golfers who are planning on traveling across seas for a playing vacation.
—Don’t go at it alone!
“Find a seasoned, reputable professional to schedule your entire itinerary. And I don’t say that because I just spent 10 days in Scotland with some tour operators,” Golf Week’s Martin Kaufmann wrote. “That’s a lesson I learned years ago. You’ll pay a little more, but it’s worth it. Too many things can go wrong, especially if you’re trying to navigate on unfamiliar roads and scheduling multiple hotels.”
— Play match play instead of keeping score.
“As a golf tourist, you might be playing a course for the first time, and that fact might be reflected in a higher-than-usual score,” Kaufmann wrote. “On top of that, it’s links golf, which is a rare and foreign treat to most of us Americans who don’t have second homes at Bandon Dunes. And then there’s the wind.”
— Other tips: Pack extra socks, don’t stuff your suitcase with golf shirts and think ahead!
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