Countryside vs Links & Golf
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatCountryside
Pastoral estates — manor houses, gardens, and slow luxury.
- Venues
- 28 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 15–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $700–$1,300 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- British Isles · Southeastern United States · Mediterranean Europe
- Best for
- leadership, strategy, team building
Links & Golf
Championship courses — invitationals and clifftop rounds.
- Venues
- 15 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 20–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $500–$1,000 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Southeastern United States · Australasia · British Isles
- Best for
- team building, leadership, celebration
Gleneagles
A storied Scottish estate on 850 acres of glen — a grand hotel with its own railway stop, falconry school, shooting school, and three championship golf courses.
Borgo Egnazia
A resort built as a Puglian village of whitewashed courtyards, 182 rooms across La Corte, the Borgo and standalone houses, with 11 meeting rooms handling groups to 500. Site of the 2024 G7 summit, with a championship golf course, spa and Puglian countryside all around.
Pinehurst Resort
The cradle of American golf — ten courses in the Carolina pines, a grand village resort, and the home of multiple U.S. Opens.
Sea Island Resort (The Cloister)
A Forbes Five-Star private island with the Cloister and Lodge, ~400 rooms, three championship courses, and 30,000 sq ft of flexible indoor meeting space that handles groups from 5 to 500. It fills the links/golf hole at a scale Pebble and Pinehurst don't quite match — an entire Georgia barrier island as your campus.
The American Club, Destination Kohler
A Forbes Five-Star resort home to Whistling Straits, the Lake Michigan links that hosted the 2020 Ryder Cup, plus Blackwolf Run. Its 241 Tudor rooms and 24 meeting rooms host groups up to 850, with the Irish Barn overlooking the closing holes for golf banquets.
Trump Turnberry
A century-old Scottish links resort on the Ayrshire coast, home to the four-time Open venue Ailsa Course and King Robert the Bruce, below a landmark clifftop hotel and lighthouse. A 500-seat ballroom and coastal activities make it a full-scale corporate golf destination.