Golf trips, built to your game

Linksbound designs bespoke golf trips to Scotland, Bandon Dunes, Streamsong, Pinehurst, Pebble Beach, and beyond, built around your group, your pace, and your ambitions, for one transparent fee.

Linksbound is paid by you, and only you. Independence isn't a slogan here. It's the business model.

In a single year, I took the trips golfers spend decades talking about: Bandon Dunes, Streamsong, and sixteen days through England and Scotland, eight rounds including Royal Troon, Turnberry, Carnoustie, and the New Course at St Andrews.

I planned all three myself, every tee time strategy, transfer, and dinner reservation, because no operator plans a trip the way its owner would. Those trips set the standard Linksbound was founded on, and it's the standard every client itinerary gets.

The Year of Three Trips

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We talk

A 90-minute consultation about who's going, what kind of golf you love, and what would make this trip the one you tell stories about. You leave with a written framework either way.

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I build

Courses in the right order, tee time strategy down to the ballots, where you'll stay, eat, and how you'll get between them. Plus your group's week-long competition, matched to your handicaps. Two rounds of refinement until it's yours.

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You go

Take the playbook and book it yourself, or add the Booking Service and I handle every reservation. The plan is the same plan either way. All that's left is the golf, and settling the standings.

Golf Travel Services

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Trip Consultation

$200

Ninety minutes plus a written framework. Credits in full toward a planning fee within 30 days.

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Domestic Bespoke Trips

from $550

Bandon, Streamsong, Pinehurst and beyond. The annual buddies trip, finally planned by someone who isn't packing. The Order of Play included. Booking Service available as an add-on.

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Scotland & UK Bespoke Trips

from $1,395

Bucket list trips built around how links golf actually works: the ballot, the weather, the pace, the pubs. The Order of Play included. Booking Service available as an add-on.

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The Order of Play

$300

Custom trip competitions: formats, handicapping, stakes. Included in every bespoke trip, or standalone for the trip you've already planned.

The Toolkit

Free, working instruments from the same research that builds every Linksbound trip. No email walls.

The Scotland Trip Cost Calculator

Pick your courses, set the dials, get an honest per-person range from published rates.

The Golf Trip Planning Calendar

Every window that prices or gates a great trip: ballots, drawings, booking openings, and the lead times that secure real choice.

The Order of Play Builder

Tell it about your group, and it designs your trip's competition: the formats, the schedule, and the games that fit.

View the famous Swilcan bridge at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland.

Field Notes

Annotated itineraries, course pairings, and the trip planning craft. Written from experience, not brochures.

A 16-Day Scotland Golf Trip: 8 Rounds, Planned Without an Operator

Sixteen days, eight rounds, no tour operator. The complete annotated itinerary, with real costs and the decisions behind every day.

Hole number 17 at the Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.

Bandon Dunes, Planned Properly: Seven Rounds in Four Days

Seven rounds in four days at America's great golf resort. The course order, the lottery, the off-season playbook, and what five visits teach you.

The modern clubhouse at Streamsong Golf Resort in Florida.

Streamsong, Ranked: Red, Blue, Black, and Why You Play All Three

Red, Blue, Black: ranked, compared, and all three worth your trip. What a solo April visit taught me about Florida's most surprising golf resort.

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The consultation is $200, credits toward your planning fee, and ends with a written framework you keep either way. The worst case is you leave with a better plan.