u/SuchMirror4453

Crew of 4. Some of us want Bandon, some want a Scotland Highlands run for the same dates. Built both itineraries side-by-side to settle it.

🇺🇸 Bandon · 6 days · 5 courses on property https://www.teeuptrips.com/trips/share/ACQnAkdzIiA6

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Highlands · 6 days · Dornoch / Cruden Bay / Castle Stuart + 3 more https://www.teeuptrips.com/trips/share/BpBHSLvOAE79

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Honest read from this sub which one would you take your crew on if you'd done neither yet? Bandon premium is real but the Scotland cultural side keeps coming up in these threads too.

(Disclosure: I built the tool I used to compare these — teeuptrips.com — so calling that out up front.)

Got home, group chat went straight to "where next." Consensus was Sand Valley, Coore & Crenshaw plus DMK.

We tried to book but Sand Valley is booked through 2027. Waitlist only.

We tried Bandon but the lodging is tight, and peak windows are gone. Could do Pinehurst but the resort packages were stiff. Started pricing trips through agencies, PerryGolf, Premier Golf, and the quotes came back at $7K-$10K per golfer for trips I could mostly self-book if I had the right courses identified.

So I thought what if I designed my own? Pick courses based on what we'd just learned to love at Streamsong. Architects we now cared about, Doak, Hanse, Coore & Crenshaw, DMK. Skip the resort fees on trips that don't need them. Book hotels direct. Drive ourselves. I couldn't find a tool that did this well, so I started building one.

It's at teeuptrips.com. You give it a destination or an anchor course, it builds an itinerary, prices everything direct and compares to what a major agency would quote.

First one I ran, Scotland Highlands, 6 courses including Royal Dornoch, Cruden Bay (Tom Simpson), Castle Stuart (Hanse), Trump International Aberdeen (Hawtree), Royal Aberdeen, Old Petty (Doak's brand new Cabot Highlands build):

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Perry: $7,290/golfer.

Direct via TeeUpTrips: $4,160/golfer.

Save $3,130/golfer. Group of 4 saves $12,520.

Live link: https://www.teeuptrips.com/trips/share/AgCZ1C71M2Vl

I then ran the same comparison across 10 trips on 4 continents. Every one came in 43-67% lower direct via TeeUpTrips.

The counter-intuitive part was that cheaper agency trips have BIGGER percentage markups. $6K Ireland trip came in 67% lower. $19K South Africa trip came in 48% lower. Agencies layer roughly the same dollar margin on every booking because their cost-to-serve is fixed. Means budget-conscious golfers are overpaying MORE in percentage terms than premium customers.

But agencies still do earn their fee for example Old Course St Andrews ballot access (Perry's an Authorised Provider, real moat), Royal Birkdale for the 154th Open in 2026 (Perry's a Sub-Agent), private clubs like The Hills NZ or Leopard Creek where you genuinely need an intro. If your trip hinges on access you can't get yourself, pay them.

Where agencies don't earn their fee is on trips where every course is publicly bookable. You can literally save thousands booking yourself.

I'm still working on getting Sand Valley booked for 2027 - If anyone here's done it, would love any tips.

Cheers

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Also sliced green onion, chilli garlic sauce, shrimp or some sort of meat (can even do deli meat like chicken) - really nothing better than indomie

Tried this game out and it was legit, just wanted to post