Plenty of golfers want to play abroad but do not have a fixed fourball ready to go. You might be a single golfer after an easy week away, a society secretary herding twenty players, or two friends who want the donkey work taken off your hands. This is
Plenty of golfers want to play abroad but do not have a fixed fourball ready to go. You might be a single golfer after an easy week away, a society secretary herding twenty players, or two friends who want the donkey work taken off your hands. This is the part of the trade where the arranging matters more than the brochure. Below is how solo golf holidays and golf society tours actually work with us, where solo players and groups tend to go, and what it costs. We run one set-departure escorted tour, in South Africa, alongside the hand-built trips we shape around your dates, so the honest answer to most questions here is “yes, and here is how”.
What an escorted golf holiday actually is, and why solo golfers and societies use it
An escorted golf tour is a trip where the schedule is set for you and someone runs the show on the ground. Tee times are booked. Transfers are arranged, there is a group of golfers already going on those dates, and a host sorts out the small stuff before you notice it. You turn up, you play, you eat, you compare scorecards over a drink.
That structure solves two specific problems. For a single golfer it answers the question of who you play with, because the group is already there. For a society it removes the months of email tennis that usually sink these plans, because the organiser deals with one person instead of forty. The trade-off is worth naming up front: an escorted tour runs on its own dates and its own course list, so if you want a particular week or a particular track, a hand-built trip will fit you better. Both options live under the same roof here, so the choice is yours rather than ours.
Our escorted tour: the Western Cape Spring Tour in South Africa
Our one set-departure escorted tour is the Western Cape Spring Tour (28 Feb to 9 March), a hosted golf trip through one of the best value golf regions anywhere. South Africa in early spring gives you firm fairways, big skies and an exchange rate that makes the whole thing feel generous. One caveat from experience: the Cape south-easter does not always clock off by late February, so pack for wind and be ready to take an extra club on the exposed holes.
The hotels matter as much as the golf on a trip like this, and we use places we would book for ourselves.
Where our specialists would stay in South Africa
Solo and single golfers: rooms and how it works
Yes, you can absolutely go on a golf holiday on your own. We arrange single golf holidays two ways. We can place you on our hosted departure in South Africa, where you arrive solo but travel with a ready-made group. Or, anywhere else, we build a hand-built trip around you, your handicap and the courses you fancy, with us doing the booking. On a hand-built trip the pairing is the course’s call on the day: most clubs will put a single golfer out with others if you want the company, or you may get a quieter round to yourself, and a single is a normal sight at the busy resort destinations.
On rooms, here is the straight version. Travelling alone usually means a single room, and a single room costs more per person than sharing a twin. We will not pretend otherwise and we will not promise no single supplement. What we will do is shop the rate and lean on places that price singles fairly, which often means guesthouse scale rather than big resorts. In the Cape, Willowbrook Country House, Somerset West and Thirty On Grace in Cape Town, both from
Golf society and group trips, organiser handled
Society trips fall over for one reason: the admin lands on one volunteer who already has a day job. We take that off your plate. As organiser you deal with one contact, get one itinerary and one set of prices, and we handle the rooming list, the tee sheet, the transfers and the inevitable late changes when someone’s wife books a wedding.
Group golf trips abroad work best with a bit of structure, so if you want to run your own order of merit, a Stableford or a relaxed roll-up, we will slot the tee times and running order to suit. Rooming is flexible: twins, singles for those who want them, the odd triple if the group skews that way. Deposits and balances can be split per player rather than dumped on the organiser’s card. For a society that fancies South Africa outside our tour dates, Durban is the value play: from
Where solo golfers and groups go hand-built
These are hand-built trips, not escorted departures. Our only set-departure escorted tour at the moment is in South Africa. Anywhere else, including the resorts below, we build the trip around you and your group rather than running a fixed group departure.
Three short-haul regions do the heavy lifting for groups and solo players, for the same reasons: lots of golf within a short drive, strong value, and logistics that do not fight you.
The Algarve is the default, with courses stacked along one coast, and for a first society trip abroad we would send you there ahead of Belek: shorter flights, more choice of course, easier to please the mixed-handicap middle of a group. Try Morgado Golf & Country Club, Portimao (7 nights from
Mainland Spain offers the same density a little cheaper. Montecastillo Resort Hotel, Jerez (7 nights from
And South Africa works hand-built too, well beyond the tour. On a Garden Route drive,
How it works and what it costs
Tell us who is going, roughly when, and how much golf you want. We come back with a hand-built quote: hotel, green fees and transfers built up from real rates, not a fixed price plucked from a brochure. Our prices are ground-only, so flights sit outside the quote, arranged separately with ATOL protection where you want them, and every trip carries PTS protection.
The numbers above give you a feel for it. Seven nights with golf starts around
Our specialists’ favourite stays in South Africa
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Frequently asked questions
What are solo golf holidays and how do they work?
Solo golf holidays are trips arranged for a single golfer travelling without a fourball. We either add you to our hosted departure in South Africa, where the group is ready-made, or build a hand-built trip anywhere else and leave the on-the-day pairing to the course. Either way we book the golf, hotel and transfers; flights are an ATOL-protected add-on we arrange where you want them.
Do you offer singles golf holidays for golfers travelling alone?
Yes. Singles golf holidays are a core part of what we do. One route is joining our hosted departure in South Africa, but if you would rather pick your own dates and courses we will build a hand-built trip anywhere and handle every booking for you.
Is there a single room supplement on a solo golf holiday?
Travelling alone usually means a single room, which costs more per person than sharing, so there is normally a single-room difference. We will not promise no single supplement, but we shop the rate, favour resorts that price singles fairly, and keep that cost as low as we honestly can. If you are open to sharing, tell us and we will look for a pairing.
What are your escorted golf tours and how many do you run?
We run one set-departure escorted golf tour rather than a catalogue. It is the Western Cape Spring Tour in South Africa, with a host on the ground and the schedule, transfers and golf arranged for the dates. Everywhere else we build hand-built trips around you, where we handle the booking and the course handles the pairing on the day.
Can you organise golf society trips abroad?
Yes. We run golf society trips abroad with the organiser fully handled: one contact, one itinerary, one set of prices, and we manage the rooming list, tee sheet, transfers and late changes. If your group runs its own order of merit or Stableford we will arrange the tee times to suit, and we can split deposits across players.
Where do solo golfers and groups tend to go?
The Algarve, mainland Spain and Belek in Turkey are the usual picks, because each offers lots of golf within a short drive, strong value and easy logistics. Seven nights with golf starts around
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.
