It's been almost a full year since we announced our plans to golf in Scotland. Next month it'll be time for me to reach out and get some quotes for the trip. Currently, the following people are interested enough to be included in the non-binding quote: Chandler, Gary, Darren, JW, Reid, Dave.
The plan would be to go at the end of June. It's about an 8 day trip, where we play 6 rounds in 5 straight days. A ton of golf... but literally once in a lifetime. I imagine the quote will be about $5k per person before flights, but the group can debate a few options once we have them.
We had talked about bring the WAGs with us, but the plan is to now NOT do that. It's a lot of money for them to spend to basically not hang out with us much.
Let's talk about the golf... GolfDigest just released their rankings of the World's 100 Best Courses, as well as the top courses in every country. Here's our current itinerary along with their World and Scotland rank:
Course World Rank Scotland Rank
St. Andrews (Old Course) 8 2
Turberry (Ailsa) 22 4
Carnoustie (Championship) 26 5
Kingsbarns 69 8
Royal Troon N/A 10
St. Andrews (New Course) N/A 18
It's an amazing list, with four of the six in The Open ROTA. Royal Toon is hosting this year, and Carnoustie is hosting in 2018.
Bottom line: it's not cheap... the weather will probably be terrible... but I couldn't be more excited to cross this off the bucket list.
Fuck! I wish I could do this. Envy is an understatement.
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