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The Best Golf Vacation You Will Ever Have
"What If You Could... Have the perfect group golf vacation, save
money and have a sensational time setting it up?" Instead of
buying "the package", design your own optimum, personalized
vacation.
Remember last year?
You waited all year to get together with your friends for your
annual golf vacation. It was supposed to be perfect, but you
bought "the package" and your outing turned out to be simply
adequate. You all had such high hopes, but you had to take what
the package provided.
Sound familiar? Have you been on the receiving side of a less
than perfect golf vacation? In all fairness, most golf packages
are good. Some are great. But they truly are packages designed
for the mass market with little flexibility and no individual
flair.
A standard golf vacation package provides lodging and one round
of golf per day, including a cart. The lodging usually means
motel or hotel accommodations with two people per bedroom. In
most cases, you can choose from several different courses, and
select your advance tee times. They will even throw in a
continental breakfast. The prices are fair, but varying from the
standard package starts adding cost in a hurry.
Again, "the package" will yield a good to great vacation, but
we need to discuss the perfect vacation. Envision this:
-A beautiful vacation house with a separate bed or bedroom for
each person.
-Gourmet dining each evening.
-As much or as little golf as you want, where you want and when
you want.
-Evening entertainment.
-Maximum camaraderie.
I have been setting up this type of annual golf vacation for my
old high school and college friends since 1988. Over those 18
years, we have refined Our Event to what we think is the perfect
annual outing. Our first few years were terrific even though we
had to keep the costs down. Each new year improves on the last.
We have settled on a full seven days, Saturday to Saturday. In
general, we schedule 36 holes per day, and modify that day by
day to wind up with an average of about 27 holes per day. Our
smallest group was five gents one year, and the largest group
was sixteen. The perfect group size is eight, but anywhere from
six to twelve works great.
We buy most of the food and beverages the day of arrival to
support breakfasts, snacks, sandwiches between rounds, and
gourmet evening meals for the entire week.
Your perfect group golf vacation is not going to be identical
to ours, but the general organization will be. There is going to
have to be a "go to guy" that organizes the event. My guess is
that will be you. You will need to:
- Get the ball rolling early.
- Have everyone stay in the same house that has a full kitchen.
- Get the shopping list together ahead of time.
- Have a general schedule and loose assignments.
1. Get the ball rolling. Pick out a window of time and
get the word out to everyone you think might be interested AND
not interested (next year, they may be). I send a fun, whimsical
email about five months ahead of a proposed block of time. It is
written such that the wives enjoy the comedy as much as the
guys. If you are not a writer, there are examples in my upcoming
free Ebook. Additionally, this book will take you through
setting up and conducting the whole event from scratch.
Follow up emails get commitments and
solicit recommendations
and special requests. Armed with all this, you will select the
ideal house, set up tee times, and arrange rental vehicles.
Further emails from you will ask what food, snacks and beverages
they will want for the outing. Here is a good timeline:
-5 months: Announce.
-3 months: Receive all commitments and solicited
recommendations.
-3 months: Let everyone know when to fly in to coordinate
travel.
-2 months: Arrange house, tee times and rental cars.
-1 month: Receive all food, snack, and beverage requests.
-1 month: Confirm house, tee times and rental cars.
-1 week: Finalize food and beverage list.
Zero hour: Have the time of your life.
2. House with a full kitchen. This allows several things:
- Preparing your own evening meal. Every group has at least one
"chef".
- Rehashing the day as a group (yes, this includes an
appropriate amount of trash talk and begging for strokes on
upcoming rounds.)
- Having evening entertainment as a group. We watch a sports
event on TV, watch videos, play cards, tell tales and get caught
up, or all of the above.
- Getting sandwiches, snacks and beverages ready for the next
day.
3. Shopping List. In my free Ebook I provide a sample
shopping list and sample emails to send requesting input. Your
various emails to the group should provide a "fill in the blank"
type of requested reply. You will ask what they want for
breakfast, what they want for sandwich lunch, what they want to
drink for the week, and any snacks they like.
4. General Schedule and Assignments. Your first year
will be a terrific learning experience. Your "chef" will emerge
and others will gravitate to where they are needed. Putting
together a list of what needs to be done and having volunteers
will work just fine. Over the years, you will find what works
best.
Think about bringing a laptop and uploading each day's results
on your website so that the unfortunate people that did not make
the trip can live vicariously by following the daily action. If
you don't have a website, a free blog will work about as well
and will be much easier to update. An idea that our group has
not yet acted on is having a masseuse come in one evening later
in the week to help our aging muscles.
You will have almost as much fun setting up this event as you
will have during your vacation. I set up a little eight page
website with history, photos, schedule, past scores, etc. to
hold everyone's interest and attention throughout the year. An
example is in my free Ebook.
Building your own special vacation not only allows you to
really tailor your outing to your group's tastes, but also
allows you all to get together as a true group for a great week
of camaraderie. As a bonus, it should wind up being less
expensive! Once you set your own up, I doubt you will ever buy
"the package" again.
About the author:
Randall Ulbricht is a retired Nuclear Submarine Officer. He
currently works from home sharing information via several web
sites, including:
Knowledge
Family Tree
Templates and
Hair Style Photo
Email perfectgolf@aweber.com for Ebook notification.
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