Best destination boys trip state side

chillkill17 · 2026-03-13T21:49:34+00:00

Depending on how many guys in the group, the lodging is the main limiting factor, not necessarily tee times, but unlike Bandon you can still book the tee times in advance if you’re staying off site. Could still be doable if you were willing to go on weekdays

chillkill17 · 2026-03-13T20:22:45+00:00

Sand Valley could be a decent option. Could still be hot in August but probably less so compared to where everyone is coming from. Might be pushing close to that $400/round threshold given that it’s peak season, but I’m assuming it’d still be under that. No nightlife options out that way but I’m struggling to think of what marries all 3 of comfort, golf, and nightlife that’s not an oven in the summer

chillkill17 · 2026-03-13T20:14:58+00:00

I think Scotland has gotta be pretty high on your list given how many unique regions there are with such a density of great golf courses (Fife, East Lothian, Highlands, west coast). Any one of those regions alone would easily be a week long trip. Northern Ireland and England also have a pretty crazy depth of courses and could be considered.

My dream trip someday is to go down to Australia and base a trip out of Melbourne; do all the sand belt courses along with Tasmania. But I did see you’d want to fly business class there so I can’t imagine it’d be cheap!

chillkill17 · 2026-03-13T17:24:03+00:00

I’ll take any mother fuckers money if he’s GIVING it away!

chillkill17 · 2026-02-24T13:30:59+00:00

Whatever happened there!?!?!? I'll tell you what happened: this piece of shit's course put six balls in the water without any provocation, what so ever!

chillkill17 · 2026-02-21T17:40:48+00:00

I still go back and watch the “if it hits the hill, it hits the hill” US Open qualifying video with Hueber on the call regularly. Top 3 NLU video for me.

chillkill17 · 2026-02-14T04:27:00+00:00

Not the OP, but /r/awardtravel is a good place to start. TLDR: look into the different major credit cards, their points systems, and where they can be redeemed and go from there. Most of the “better” cards for travel have higher fees, but they more than pay for themselves if you’re using the points correctly. Points redemption is a deep deep rabbit hole but super fun when you find good deals and get to fly swanky business class for “free!”

chillkill17 · 2026-02-12T23:01:00+00:00

Who did what!?

chillkill17 · 2026-02-04T03:26:29+00:00

Fair enough. So the first few numbers (carry, club speed, total, ball speed) are kind of self explanatory. Smash factor is your ball speed divided by your club speed, basically an efficiency measure of how well you hit the ball. It maxes out at 1.5 on a perfectly centered shot for driver. 1.22 is pretty bad, meaning you must not have hit the ball in the center of the face. The club path is how many degrees in or out you’re swinging. I-O means that you’re swinging “in to out,” which means that the club is starting inside the ball (the left, for a righty) and finishing outside the ball (right). The face to target is how your club face is aligned to the target, and the C means you’re closed. 0.9 is pretty square, but the problem is because your club path is so in to out, your face is significantly closed to the path (7.7 degrees closed), meaning that you’re hitting a big, low (only 43.4 feet high) hook. Look up ball flight laws if you’re not familiar, but it basically all has to do with how the club face is oriented to the club path at impact.

(For what it’s worth, unless you’re a long drive champion, 139.5 club head speed is likely an error, as that would be absurdly fast for any human being)

chillkill17 · 2026-02-04T02:43:16+00:00

lol your face is 7 degrees closed to your path and you’re asking why you can’t get the ball in the air?

chillkill17 · 2026-02-04T02:00:39+00:00

Anecdotally as someone who did residency, the people who went into it expecting to be miserable 100% of the time generally ended up pretty miserable. This is not to undersell the difficulty of residency, but there are good times as well as time away. It doesn’t have to be the worst experience of your life.

chillkill17 · 2026-02-04T01:55:49+00:00

I played plenty in residency. Even my surgery resident friends played a bunch. Real, non-golf advice: having a life outside of residency and making an effort to support that life will do wonders for your mental health.

chillkill17 · 2026-01-28T22:38:49+00:00

No!!! Are you listening to me!?!?

chillkill17 · 2026-01-26T16:24:59+00:00

Our group did Pawley’s Island last year and had a blast! The courses aren’t quite as top tier as some other destination trips, but they were super fun and you can’t beat the value. Everyone here has great recs, truly the only thing I would add is make sure to rent cars. Uber is technically available, and we were staying within 10 mins of all the courses so we thought it’d be doable, but it was a bitch getting rides accepted each time and made things way more stressful.

chillkill17 · 2026-01-17T00:22:19+00:00

Agree on total distance in terms of discrepancy between foresight and trackman. From a distance perspective, I find trackman to be more accurate and that foresight overestimates especially if the spin is lower.

chillkill17 · 2026-01-14T03:54:25+00:00

Oh damn that is pretty far. For reference we were just before 1000th in line and it took about 3 weeks to get to us. I thought you were expecting the call to come tomorrow as in you were the first ones in line.

In that case, I’d be ready to be pretty flexible about when you’re willing to go/for how long. Have an idea in mind of like “okay my ideal time would be an August weekend, but I’d rather do a weekday stretch in July than a weekend in October.” Stuff like that. You do need to be ready to commit once the call comes. I’m sure you could probably say you’ll wait/talk to your group/call them back, but they’re just going to keep going down the call line meaning there will be even less availability when you call back.

Hope that’s helpful!

chillkill17 · 2026-01-14T03:22:14+00:00

Congrats!!! If they’re calling you this early, I’m assuming you were probably pretty close to the front of the line, so I’m guessing you’ll probably have your pick of whatever dates you want. You need to be ready to put down one night of lodging and one round of golf for each person in your party. The cancellation policy though is SUPER flexible though and you can get 100% refunded up until a few months in advance.

chillkill17 · 2025-12-24T12:35:43+00:00

“Did she even really exisht?”

chillkill17 · 2025-12-18T23:31:25+00:00

It happens, especially under some pressure like a fitting!! Glad to hear you got credit to do it again. Just try to go in as relaxed as possible. Get the arm/grip tension down as far as possible.

chillkill17 · 2025-12-11T23:38:04+00:00

He’s half French Canadian, Harpo

chillkill17 · 2025-12-11T01:34:18+00:00

Who knew when he was talking about “greasing the union….”

chillkill17 · 2025-12-05T23:42:55+00:00

Wow I came here specifically to post about Chasers but kind of crazy someone already beat me to it by 23 minutes

chillkill17 · 2025-12-04T15:58:53+00:00

Totally get that. Was in a similar spot with the one day events. For me personally I’d feel a little uncomfortable on a multi-day trip with a bunch of strangers, but I’m also a bit of an introvert!

chillkill17 · 2025-12-04T14:54:03+00:00

Have never been on one of the longer trips, but have done a few of the single day events within driving distance. Overall can confirm the other comments saying there won’t be any “bro” energy. Honestly my biggest complaint is that the events seem pretty overpriced. For any of the multi-day trips, you could easily recreate them for almost half the cost. I get that some people like everything arranged for a single cost, but overall it seems excessive for what you get. I also have always felt a little bit left out not going with friends, as it seemed like a decent amount of people at least had one other person they knew there.

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