US Golf Guides · 3 June 2026
Luxury Golf Holidays
Worldwide By The Golf Planet Holidays Team · Golf-travel specialists since 1981 · Published 3 June 2026 At a glance What is a luxury golf holiday? It pairs the world’s finest courses with five-star resorts and a trip shaped entirely around you — tee times, transfers, dining and downtime all arranged by a specialist, not […]
A luxury golf holiday isn’t a brochure with a five-star photograph on the cover. It’s the quiet certainty that every detail — the championship course at first light, the suite that looks down the eighteenth, the transfer already waiting when you land — has been thought through by someone who has actually played there. We have arranged golf holidays since 1981, and at the top of our collection sit the resorts and the courses that the keenest golfers cross oceans for.
What makes a golf holiday truly luxurious
Luxury in golf is rarely about excess. It is about the right things, handled without you having to ask. A championship course you’ve dreamed of playing, with a confirmed tee time at the hour you want it. A five-star room where the balcony faces the sea and the spa is two minutes from the practice green. A buggy stocked, a caddie arranged, a dinner reservation made because you mentioned, in passing, that it was your wife’s birthday.
It is also space — to play hard and then do nothing at all. The best luxury golf resorts give a non-golfing partner as much reason to travel as the golfer: a serious spa, a beach worth the flight, food worth talking about. Get that balance right and a golf trip becomes a holiday the whole party remembers.
Where our specialists send discerning golfers
Mauritius is, for many of our clients, the definition of a luxury golf holiday — the championship links and parkland of Constance Belle Mare Plage, the island calm of Heritage Awali and Anahita, and the kind of service that makes you reluctant to fly home.
Closer to home, the Costa del Sol is anchored by Finca Cortesín — host of the Solheim Cup and one of Europe’s genuinely great resorts. In California, the pilgrimage is Pebble Beach, where The Lodge and The Inn at Spanish Bay put you a wedge from the most photographed holes in golf. And no luxury collection is complete without St Andrews, the Home of Golf.
For sheer five-star polish, Turkey’s Belek coast — Maxx Royal, Gloria Serenity — is hard to beat value-for-quality, while Costa Navarino in Greece (The Romanos), Son Vida in Mallorca and Park Hyatt Dubai each give a very different flavour of the same idea: the best course, the best bed, and nothing to organise yourself.
Where our specialists would stay in Mauritius
Curated, not catalogued
This is where we differ from the big booking sites. We don’t list every hotel and let you sift; we recommend the ones we would send our own friends to, and we’re honest about the ones we wouldn’t. Our team has played these courses and stayed in these resorts. When a specialist tells you the sea-view rooms at one hotel are worth the upgrade and the ones at another aren’t, that opinion is earned.
And because every trip is tailored rather than packaged, the price reflects your holiday — your dates, your courses, your group — not a headline designed to win a click. We’ll tell you where the money is well spent and where it isn’t. Quietly, that’s what luxury travel should be.
How we tailor your luxury golf holiday
It starts with a conversation. Tell a specialist where you’d love to play, who’s travelling and what “a good trip” looks like to you. We shape the itinerary around that — courses and tee times, the right resort and room, transfers, dining, anything for the non-golfers, and flights if you’d like us to handle them. Then we price it transparently and, once you’re happy, we book and confirm every element. You travel with nothing left to arrange.
A taste of our five-star collection in Mauritius
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Frequently asked questions
When should I book a luxury golf holiday?
For peak weeks at the top resorts — Mauritius in our winter, the Algarve and Costa del Sol in spring and autumn — three to six months ahead secures the best rooms and tee times. We can often arrange shorter-notice trips, but choice narrows quickly at this level.
Can you arrange tee times at championship courses?
Yes — securing tee times at the courses you want, at the times that suit your group, is central to what we do. Many premier courses release limited resort-guest slots, which is one reason staying on-site matters.
What about a non-golfing partner?
The resorts in this collection are chosen partly for exactly this — world-class spas, beaches and dining mean a non-golfer has as much reason to travel as the golfer. We tailor the trip for the whole party.
Are flights included?
We arrange holidays ground-only as standard, and add flights as an ATOL-protected option if you’d prefer us to handle everything. Either way the itinerary is built around your travel.
Which luxury destination is best for a first trip?
Mauritius and the Costa del Sol are our most-recommended starting points — superb courses, faultless five-star resorts and an easy, relaxed rhythm. Tell a specialist your priorities and we’ll point you to the right one.
Come and play with us
Wherever you're travelling from, you're welcome on a Golf Planet hosted tour — a small group, a host with you from the first tee to the last, and every round, transfer and dinner taken care of. You just bring the clubs.
