When the Northeast turns cold and your team hits the road in the South or Southwest, the weather down there is perfect for golf. Here is how to build a football weekend around a warm-season round.
It is late in the fall. The Northeast is gray and cold, the winter coats are out, and your team, college or pro, has a road game somewhere warm: Atlanta, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Dallas, or Las Vegas. Here is the move most fans miss. While you are down there for the game, it is still golf weather. With a little planning, a football road trip becomes a golf weekend.
While the Northeast is shutting down for the season, the Southeast and Southwest are in one of their best stretches of the year for golf. The summer heat and humidity have broken, the courses are in peak fall condition, tee sheets are easier to come by than in spring, and daytime temperatures sit in the comfortable 60s and 70s. The same Saturday that means a space heater at a tailgate up North means a golf shirt and a cart down South.
Almost every fall weekend, a Northeastern team travels to a warm-weather city with excellent golf a short drive from the stadium. A few of the best pairings:
Every one of these is a destination we build group golf trips around. Pick the city your team is visiting and the golf is already there.
A handful of matchups on this season schedule line up especially well for a warm-weather golf weekend, when a team from the cold heads south:
A note on timing: the NFL can move kickoff times late in the season, so lock the weekend first and let us handle the tee times around whenever the game lands. And do not overlook college football. Bowl season, from mid-December into early January, sends Northern teams to warm-weather cities like Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Dallas, and Las Vegas. If your school draws one of those bowls, a golf trip is already built in. The Florida versus Georgia rivalry, played in Jacksonville every fall, is another ready-made golf weekend on the First Coast.
The same weekend that means a winter coat up North means a golf shirt and a cart down South.
The shape is simple. Fly in Thursday or Friday, play golf Friday and Saturday morning, take in the game, and fly home. Three nights, two or three rounds, one game: an easy long weekend. The only real trick is logistics, tee times that line up with kickoff and lodging that sits between the course and the stadium so nobody is driving an hour each way. That is the part we handle.
Tell us the city and the weekend your team is on the road, and how many are coming. We will put together the tee times, the lodging, and the whole golf side of the trip, so all you have to do is show up, play, and cheer. It is the easiest way to turn a cold Northeastern Saturday into a warm one.
Yes. Fall is one of the best times of year for golf across the Southeast and Southwest. The summer heat and humidity are gone, courses are in top condition, and daytime highs typically sit in the 60s and 70s well into November.
Atlanta, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Dallas and Austin, the Carolinas, the Gulf Coast, and Las Vegas all pair a pro or college football weekend with excellent golf a short drive from the stadium.
Tell us the city and the date. We book tee times and lodging around kickoff so the golf and the game fit into one smooth weekend, with everything close together and handled through a single point of contact.