Links & Golf Retreats
15 links & golf residences, chosen for whole-property use. The kind of week people still describe to whoever didn’t come.
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Sea Island Resort (The Cloister)
Sea Island, Georgia (Atlantic coast / Golden Isles)
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 Lodge at Kauri Cliffs
Bay of Islands, Northland
Clifftop golf links over the Pacific; tour-calibre golf, intimate exclusive-use leadership scale.
Cape Kidnappers
Hawke's Bay
One of the world's great clifftop golf courses; full-lodge buyout, dramatic ridgeline.
PGA National Resort
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Five championship golf courses plus 97,000 sq ft of meeting space — a golf-resort big-campus near West Palm Beach.
Streamsong Resort
Bowling Green, FL (central FL)
A dramatic reclaimed-mine links trio with 25,000 sq ft of meeting space and 60,000 sq ft of outdoor space — a golf offsite with total privacy.
Kiawah Island Golf Resort
Kiawah Island, SC
Five courses including the famed Ocean Course, plus 23,000 sq ft of meeting space — a barrier-island golf resort that hosts 18 to 800.
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
Bandon, OR
Bucket-list walking-only links on the Oregon coast — group billing from 16, ideal for intimate golf-pilgrimage offsites.
Sand Valley
Nekoosa, Wisconsin
A 12,000-acre golf destination in Wisconsin's Central Sands with firm, links-style courses on rugged inland dunes, plus lodge rooms, suites and ridge-top cottages. Golf groups take cottage clusters and the Craig's Porch clubhouse, with tennis, a lake and farm-to-table dining between rounds.
The American Club, Destination Kohler
Kohler, Wisconsin
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.
Cabot Cape Breton
Inverness, Nova Scotia
A clifftop golf resort on the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton, home to Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs plus the 11-hole Nest, with 72 rooms, 19 golf villas and multi-bedroom residences. Detached four-bedroom villas suit golf groups who want the ocean holes to themselves.
Trump Turnberry
Ayrshire, Scotland
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.
Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa
St Andrews, Scotland
A five-star hotel overlooking the 17th of the Old Course in the home of golf, with 175 rooms and event spaces for 4 to 400, the Hall of Champions seating up to 600. It runs corporate golf trips across the town's links plus the resort's own Duke's course and Kohler Waters Spa.
Barnbougle
Bridport, Tasmania
A remote links destination on Tasmania's northeast coast with the Dunes and Lost Farm courses running through beachfront dunes over Bass Strait. The 50-room Lost Farm Lodge plus cottages and four-bedroom Bunker Villas host golf groups on some of the world's best coastal links.
Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg
Doonbeg, County Clare
A clifftop links resort on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way in County Clare, with an all-suite lodge of one-to-four-bedroom suites and Links Cottages along the 17th fairway. Groups of golfers take cottage clusters and reception rooms, with the White Horses Spa and coastal dining on hand.
The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay, California
A 261-room oceanfront resort on a bluff south of San Francisco with two coastal courses, including a Scottish links-style layout with ocean views from every hole. More than 35,000 square feet of event space and a 7,100-square-foot ballroom handle corporate programs up to 400.