Top 10 Trip Tips
At the New York Golf Trail, we know a thing or two about planning a great golf outing. From
our experience of setting up our own trips for years, as well as setting up great adventures
for trail-goers, we have come up with this list of our Top 10 Trip Tips. If you have a great
tip that has made all the difference for you, we would love to hear about it. Please don't
hesitate to
contact us to let us know about it.
- Consider planning your golf trip for May, June, September or October when lodging and sometimes even golf rates are lower. There’s no better time for New York Golf than in the fall!
- Play on your first day, before checking into your hotel. It’s nice to get that first round in ASAP.
- Make sure you have a GPS or maps so you know your way from your hotel to the courses.
- For buddy trips, make sure you have the right camaraderie within your group. You want the trip to be fun, without a thought about who’s not getting along with whom.
- Make sure everyone is on the same page before the trip so expectations aren’t all over the place, i.e. 8:00 am vs. 10:00 am tee times.
- Try to stay together at night. Splinter groups going off in different directions take away from the spirit of the trip…it should be about hanging out together.
- The group leader should make the hotel room pairings. Make the assignments based on your own judgment, not everyone’s input.
- Consider a modified stableford scoring system, with points for birdies, pars and bogeys. People won’t worry as much about their score and who shot what, and it adds a fun risk/reward element. Mix up the foursomes each day so you don’t have the same golfers playing together.
- Don’t sweat the small stuff. If everyone’s up too late for breakfast, catch it at the clubhouse. Pool your $ at dinner and split it down the middle. Pick a common meeting place like a mall parking lot for departure. Keep it simple.
- Build tradition. A lame-looking trophy, “steak night,” an outdoor happy hour, or a cash pot that everyone contributes to are all easy ways to build cool memories that have nothing to do with the quality of the golf. And isn’t that the whole point?