Where to plan next

The home of golf — links, history, and the world's most pilgrimaged courses.

Half the price of Scotland, every bit the links. Plus the pubs.

Europe's best-value golf coast — top-100 layouts, year-round sun, and sardines on the boardwalk.

Cypress Point, Pebble, Spyglass — the most concentrated stretch of bucket-list golf in North America.

Six top-100 walking-only links courses on the wild Oregon coast — golf's most ambitious modern pilgrimage.

Ten courses, three US Opens, and the small Carolina town that calls itself the home of American golf.

300 sunny days a year, 200 golf courses, and the most reliable winter golf trip in the United States.

Three top-30 modern courses on reclaimed Florida phosphate mines — the southeast's bucket-list resort.

Sand Valley + Whistling Straits — the Midwest answer to Bandon, three hours apart on the same road trip.

Harbour Town's lighthouse, Spanish moss over fairways, and the most family-friendly golf trip in the south.

The Ocean Course — Pete Dye's coastal monster, with four more resort tracks and a Charleston nightlife base 45 minutes away.

Three Davis Love-redesigned courses, the Cloister hotel, and the most-curated luxury golf experience in the southeast.

120 courses, 300 sun days, mid-century cool — Southern California's reliable winter golf trip.

America's golf-packages capital — 80 courses, the lowest green fees on the East Coast, and the best 4-buddy trip in the country.

TPC Sawgrass, Reunion, and the Disney-adjacent resort circuit — Florida's most family-flexible winter golf.

Royal Birkdale, Royal St George's, Sunningdale — England's links + heathland circuit, an hour from London.

Valderrama, Real Sotogrande, Finca Cortesin — Andalucía's Ryder Cup coast and Europe's warmest winter golf.

Cabot Links + Cliffs — North America's most ambitious modern links resort, on the Cape Breton coast.

Desert-meets-Dubai-Marina — winter golf with Tour-quality venues and the most polished resort logistics on earth.

Midnight-sun golf on lava-field links — the most unusual bucket-list trip in the world.

Red rock desert golf an hour from Las Vegas — the cheap-flights-and-cliffs answer to the bucket-list deserts of Scottsdale.

The most-flown-into golf city in America — cheap airfare, no rental car needed for some rounds, and a 1h45m drive to the desert masterpieces.

Oitavos, Penha Longa, West Cliffs — the European coastal-golf alternative an hour from Lisbon, with the city itself as a base.