Golf Travel

Golf Worth
Traveling For

Bucket-list courses on five continents. Historic links, mountain settings, and fairways carved from coastline. Schwan Travel Group plans the kind of golf trips people talk about for decades.

All Journeys
The Idea

Some Courses Are Worth the Flight

Every serious golfer has a list. The Old Course at St. Andrews. Royal County Down in a morning mist. Pebble Beach at sunset. Courses that don't just test your game, they change how you think about it.

Schwan Travel Group builds golf trips around those places, for groups of any size. Whether you're organizing an annual club trip, planning a milestone buddy trip, or looking to bring your country club's golf committee somewhere unforgettable, we handle every detail from tee sheet to return flight.

Two golfers on a clifftop coastal course
Bucket List Destinations

Where the Game Takes You

Golf travel at its best means courses you've watched on television, walked in your imagination, and always meant to play. These are those places.

Historic Irish castle framed by golf course greenery
Ireland & Scotland
The Birthplace of the Game

Links golf at its most authentic: blind shots over fescue, greens that run at the mercy of the Atlantic wind, and a tradition that predates the rules of the game as we know them. Ireland and Scotland don't just have great golf, they have centuries of it built into the landscape.

Royal County Down, Ballybunion, Lahinch, Old Head of Kinsale, Waterville, St. Andrews (Old Course), Carnoustie, Royal Troon, Kingsbarns, Turnberry

Golf course carved into the forested Japanese mountains
Japan
Where Golf Meets Precision

Japan's golf culture is unlike anywhere else in the world: immaculate conditioning, unhurried rounds among playing partners who take the game seriously, and courses tucked into mountain valleys that feel removed from time. An unforgettable trip even when you're not on the course.

Hirono Golf Club, Kawana Hotel Golf Course (Fuji), Naruo Golf Club, Phoenix Country Club, Tokyo Golf Club

Golf course green with Canadian Rocky Mountain backdrop
Canadian Rockies
Golf at Elevation

Snow-capped peaks, pine forests dropping to manicured greens, and air clean enough to add 10 yards to every club. The Rockies offer world-class resort golf in settings so visually overwhelming that a topped drive is almost forgivable. Almost.

Banff Springs Golf Course, Silvertip Resort, Kananaskis Country Golf Course, Stewart Creek Golf Club

Lush golf course with water features and mountain backdrop in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Green Everywhere You Look

Thailand, Vietnam, and China have spent two decades building some of the most dramatic courses in the world. Warm weather year-round, world-class design at a fraction of the cost of equivalent courses elsewhere, and a travel experience rich enough to justify the flight on its own.

Black Mountain Golf Club (Thailand), Laguna Lang Co (Vietnam), Mission Hills (China), Bali National Golf Club, Springfield Royal Country Club

Desert golf course with palm trees reflecting in a calm lake
Desert Southwest

365 Days of Perfect Golf Weather

Palm Springs, Scottsdale, and Las Vegas offer a different kind of bucket-list golf: resort courses at their absolute finest, with warm mornings, dramatic high-desert terrain, and an ease of travel that makes a long weekend feel like a full trip. Perfect for groups who want world-class golf without crossing an ocean.

PGA West, Shadow Creek, TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), Troon North, Wolf Creek, Paiute Golf Resort, Westin Kierland Golf Club

Who Goes on Golf Trips

Built for Groups Who Take the Game Seriously

Golf trips work best when the logistics are invisible and the playing partners already know each other. We plan them for groups like these.

Country Club Members

Annual Club Trips

Many clubs host annual golf trips as a member benefit or social tradition. Schwan Travel Group can build a repeatable framework that makes your club trip something members look forward to booking every year: consistent quality, fresh destinations, straightforward sign-up. We've worked with clubs from 8 to 80 travelers.

Golf Organizations

Men's Club, Ladies' Club, Tournament Travel

Golf organizations have specific needs around structure, competition format, and group dynamics. We coordinate tee sheets for large groups, help manage scoring and event formats, and build itineraries that work for a range of skill levels without anyone feeling rushed or left out.

Buddy Trips & Milestone Trips

The Group That Plays Together

Four friends or twenty who all want to play the same course at the same time. We handle the accommodations, transfers, tee times, and every logistical detail that turns a great idea into a trip that actually happens, without anyone spending a month in a group chat planning it.

Group of golfers celebrating a great round together
What We Handle

All You Need to Worry About Is Your Handicap

Organizing golf travel for a group is genuinely complicated. Tee time logistics, pace-of-play coordination, mixed skill levels, travel delays, companions who don't golf. We've done this before, and we do it well.

  • Tee time reservations across multiple courses and days
  • Group accommodations at or near the courses
  • Ground transportation, airport transfers, and cart coordination
  • Competition formats, scoring, and event structure
  • Dining reservations and clubhouse access arrangements
  • Itinerary planning for non-golfers traveling with the group
  • Flights, arrival logistics, and on-trip support

Ready to Tee It Up Somewhere New?

Tell us where you've always wanted to play, how many are in your group, and what kind of trip you have in mind. We'll handle everything else.