Seven U.S. golf destinations that consistently deliver for groups, from bucket-list coastlines to high-value stay-and-play resorts where the whole trip lives under one roof.
The best group golf destination is the one that fits your group, but a handful of places earn their reputation year after year for making group trips easy: great courses close together, lodging built for golfers, and enough to do off the course to fill the evenings. These are seven we send groups to again and again.
The Gulf Coast may be the best value in American group golf. Championship courses like the Tom Fazio-designed Fallen Oak sit minutes from beachfront casino resorts, so a group can play elite golf by day and have dining, gaming, and nightlife a short walk from the room. It is warm nearly year-round and built for groups of every size.
For a bucket-list trip, few places compare to Kiawah Island. The Pete Dye-designed Ocean Course, host of the Ryder Cup and multiple PGA Championships, anchors five courses at a single Lowcountry resort, with private villas and island shuttles that make a group feel like it has the place to itself.
The RTJ Trail is a collection of championship public courses spread across Alabama, purpose-built to be affordable and accessible. Sites like Capitol Hill in Prattville and Grand National near Auburn give groups a huge amount of high-quality golf for the money, which is why the Trail is a group-trip staple.
Pebble Beach and its neighbors are the definition of a golf pilgrimage. The scenery along the Pacific is unmatched, and while it sits at the premium end, a group that wants a once-in-a-lifetime trip rarely regrets pointing it at the Monterey Peninsula.
Las Vegas is the answer when a group wants golf by day and a city at night. Championship desert courses sit within a short drive of the Strip, so the golf and the entertainment never compete for the same real estate. It is one of the easiest destinations to fly a group into from anywhere in the country.
In the summer months, Northern Michigan is one of the country's great golf secrets. Resorts like Boyne and Grand Traverse stack multiple championship courses on one property, set against Lake Michigan and rolling hardwood hills, with long daylight hours that let a group squeeze in extra golf.
No list of group destinations is complete without the Grand Strand. Myrtle Beach packs dozens of courses into a compact stretch of coast, with lodging and dining at every price point. For sheer volume of golf and ease of organizing a large group, it remains hard to beat.
The common thread is not prestige, it is fit: courses close together, lodging built for golfers, and enough off the course to fill the evenings.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Robert Trent Jones Trail in Alabama are consistently the best value, pairing championship courses with affordable stay-and-play lodging and casino resorts.
Destinations with courses and lodging close together, such as the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Myrtle Beach, or a single-resort stay like Kiawah Island, are the easiest to organize for a first trip because the logistics are simple.
For scenery and prestige, the Monterey Peninsula around Pebble Beach and Kiawah Island in South Carolina are the two destinations groups most often name as once-in-a-lifetime trips.