Essential ‘must-haves’ for your next golf trip!
Right now, the nights are getting gloomier and the mornings are getting colder. Maybe you’re finding it harder to get yourself onto your local course.
What it sounds like you need is to start planning your next lads’ golf trip. It’s that little treat you try to fit in once a year, where you can escape with your friends to a course and just be yourselves. Whether that be a course in the UK, such as Oulton Hall in the north or Old Thorns in the south of England, or if you are lucky enough to travel abroad, the excitement really does begin when you start the planning.
This is the sign you’ve been waiting for. This is the sign to book your next golf trip with the boys and here is Zeon Golf’s guide outlining some essential elements of a successful golf trip.
Choosing the destination
We’ve already mentioned a couple of destinations in the UK that we’ve visited before, but one of the first decisions you’ll have to make is selecting the destination. What you’re looking for is a hotel large enough that you aren’t the only ones there, a bar and a short journey to the course.
If you’re looking for something abroad, we’ve found you can’t really go wrong with Portugal. A simple Google search and you’ll be inundated with suggestions, but we’ve used yourgolftravel.com to plan one of our trips and it was as easy as slicing your drive!
Matching team wear
No, we aren’t saying dress exactly the same. But splitting your group in two can add a unique touch to your trip away; after all, who doesn’t love a free round in the bar after your team clinched the win as your mate misses a 3ft putt on the 18th?!
Matching polo shirts are a must for any lads’ trips, and you can even get creative by adding names or logos on the back or arms of the shirts. At Zeon Golf, we’ve got you covered, and you can get in touch about how we can support your next lads golf trip, corporate day, or society golf by completing our online form here.
Games to play on the course
Golf is fun. We know it, you know it. But beating your mates whilst playing golf? Priceless. So here are a couple of different games you can try out, above and beyond the usual closest to the pin!
1.Bingo, Bango, Bongo
Bingo is the first player to reach the green, Bango is the first player to get closest to the pin after one putt and Bongo is the first player to hole first. At the end of the hole, if you are either Bingo, Bango or Bongo, you get to give out a drink!
Now we could say you can play this on every hole but your round may go significantly downhill after the 5th hole! So perhaps this is just one for the par threes!
2. The Mulligan
This is one that can start arguments, especially in a team game. Each player has the opportunity to ask their opponents to re-take a shot. It could be a 300-yard drive that split the fairway, it could have been the impossible shot over water or it could even be the match winning putt on the 18th.
Use it to early, you may regret it in the future but use to late, and you may not make the full use of it!
These games not only make your rounds more competitive, but also add a whole lot of laughs! We hope you’ve found this guide helpful. And remember boys, get that lads’ picture of the end of the trip – you never know when your wife will say it’s your last!
Swing easy out there brothers!
Zeon Golf