The Best Golf Trips for 2026 and 2027: Where to Play and the Events Worth Building a Trip Around

Golf might be the most underrated group trip there is. The activity plans itself, a tee time is a built-in daily anchor, the foursome is the perfect small-group unit, and nobody spends the trip arguing about what to do next. The next two years are also a genuinely great window to go, because the sport's biggest events are landing in places worth building a whole trip around. Here is where to play in 2026 and 2027, and the tournaments worth flying for.

Where to play in the US. For a first group golf trip, the desert is hard to beat. Scottsdale and the greater Phoenix area pack more highly rated public courses into a short drive than almost anywhere in the country, with reliable sun from October through April and a nightlife scene that fills the non-golf hours. Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley are the California version: more than 100 courses, big-group rental houses with a pool, and easy flights from the West Coast. On the coast, Monterey and Pebble Beach deliver the bucket-list round most golfers want to play at least once, paired with 17-Mile Drive and Carmel for everyone else. In the Southeast, Hilton Head Island is the classic reunion-golf pick, walkable and stacked with courses, while Pinehurst, North Carolina is the American home of the game and runs more affordably midweek.

Going bigger. If your group is serious about the game, Bandon Dunes in Oregon is a pilgrimage: links golf on the Pacific, walking only, phones away. Overseas, Scotland's St Andrews and Ireland's southwest coast are the trips people talk about for the rest of their lives, and 2027 hands you a once-a-century reason to go. More on that below.

The 2026 events worth traveling around. Attending a marquee tournament turns a golf trip into a story, and the 2026 calendar is loaded. The Masters returns to Augusta National in Georgia, April 9 to 12. The PGA Championship heads to Aronimink Golf Club near Philadelphia, May 14 to 17. The US Open goes to storied Shinnecock Hills on Long Island, New York, June 18 to 21. The Open Championship, golf's oldest major, is at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, July 16 to 19, an easy add-on to a UK links trip. And the Presidents Cup brings the US against an International team to Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, September 22 to 27, the kind of team-event atmosphere that is a blast even for casual fans.

2027 is the headliner. Two events make 2027 the year to start planning for now. In June, the US Open returns to Pebble Beach on the California coast, June 14 to 20, the seventh time the championship has been held at arguably the most scenic course in the sport. Then in September, the Ryder Cup comes to Adare Manor in County Limerick, Ireland, September 13 to 19. It is the 100th anniversary of the Ryder Cup and the first time Ireland has hosted since the K Club in 2006. An Ireland golf trip built around it, a few links rounds on the southwest coast plus the matches, is the kind of thing a group remembers forever. Demand will be enormous, so the groups that lock their dates early are the ones who actually go.

How to make the group trip actually happen. The hard part of a golf trip is never the golf. It is getting six or eight people to agree on dates, a destination, and a budget, then getting everyone to actually book. The fix is to decide together and let each person book their own seat and tee time, so nobody is fronting thousands of dollars and chasing repayments for months. That is exactly what Jettova's planning room is built for. Start a room, pick the golf occasion, and the group votes on a shortlist of golf-friendly destinations like Scottsdale, Palm Springs, Hilton Head, and more, settles on dates with a quick poll, and gets a day-by-day plan with real flight and stay estimates from each member's home airport. Everyone books their own flight and room, and the foursomes sort themselves out.

Whether it is a long weekend in Scottsdale or a week in Ireland for the Ryder Cup, start the room, drop in your dates, and let the group vote. The trip that has been a group-chat fantasy for years is a lot closer than it feels.