Trip Planning

Multi-day golf trips, Ryder Cup formats, and group itineraries.

A modern golf clubhouse bar interior at late afternoon — a wooden bar counter with leather barstools, shelves of amber liquor bottles and hanging glassware in the background, warm pendant lighting, and a foreground table holding a leather bill presenter with a credit card sticking out, a folded receipt, a small stack of US bills, and a rocks glass of amber liquid, with a dark wood-paneled booth alcove on the right

Splitting the Tab on a Buddies Trip

The trip ends and now someone has to figure out who owes what. Here's how to split the tab on a buddies trip — the three categories of spend, the settle-up process, and the hack to skip the Venmo thread entirely.

Nathan Shoup·5 min read

Four golf carts loaded with golf bags lined up neatly in a row on a cart path beside the first tee box of a contemporary golf course at dawn, with a modern stone-and-wood clubhouse visible in the soft-focus background and a tree line on the right falling into shade

Trip Planning

The Annual Buddies Trip Survival Guide

The annual buddies trip is one of the highlights of the year — and one of the easiest to mess up. A field guide for the friend who runs the trip: decisions, format, teams, leaderboard, money.

Nathan Shoup·5 min read

Golfers walking a fairway at dawn on a buddies trip

Trip Planning

How to Run a Ryder Cup–Style Buddies Trip

Some trips just happen. The ones that get remembered have a captain who knew exactly what they were doing — formats per day, balanced teams, points that survive the back-and-forth. Here's the playbook.

Nathan Shoup·9 min read