Ranch 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 RetreatRanch
Wide-open working land — riding, fire pits, and rugged bonding.
- Venues
- 16 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 30–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $600–$1,100 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Mountain United States · Western United States · Caribbean & Latin America
- Best for
- team building, leadership, celebration
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
Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa
A 6,500-acre Rocky Mountain ranch near Winter Park with 20,000 square feet of barn and lodge meeting space that handles groups up to 500. Cabins and lodge rooms sit across the valley; days run to horseback, fly-fishing on the Fraser and Nordic trails in winter.
The Resort at Paws Up
A 37,000-acre Montana ranch on the Blackfoot River that invented luxury 'glamping.' Tented camps, homes, and a tented pavilion host hundreds without ever feeling like a hotel.
Rancho de los Caballeros
An 18,000-acre Sonoran Desert guest ranch north of Phoenix with 79 casitas, its own championship golf course and 12,500 square feet of meeting space. It runs corporate groups of 100-plus, pairing boardroom mornings with trail rides, clay shooting and desert cookouts.
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.