Trip Planning

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

Eight guys standing arm-in-arm on the 18th green at Sheep Ranch at sunset after the final round of the 2026 Bandon buddies trip

Bandon 2026: How We Ran a Ryder Cup Across 5 Rounds and 3 Days

Eight guys, five rounds, three days at Bandon Dunes — an 11-point Ryder Cup across four scoring formats, all scored live on ForeBoard. The design that made it work, and what the guys actually thought about being on the app.

Nathan Shoup·12 min read

An empty golf cart at rest on a cart path lined with autumn maples, morning mist rising off an empty fairway at a Northeast course, dark treeline in the upper right

Trip Planning

Planning Your Last Golf Trip of the Year

Fall trips are underrated — cooler mornings, empty tee sheets, cheaper stay-and-play. And there's an urgency you don't get in June: this might be the last one until spring.

Nathan Shoup·4 min read

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

Trip Planning

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