About Golf and the Good Life - Your Guide for Golf Trips Across the Pond
Your guide for golf trips to the great courses of Scotland, Ireland, England, and Beyond.
Produced by Haversham & Baker Expeditions. The leading provider of international golf travel to America's private clubs and their members.
Golf and the Good Life offers insight and expertise for your time both on and off the great golf courses of Scotland, Ireland, and England.
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Stuff Happens: Common Golf Travel Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Most golf trips run exactly to plan. But it's easy for plans to get derailed with international golf travel, and after enough years the pattern is clear. It's almost always the same short list of problems.
Connor and D.J. work through what actually goes sideways on a golf trip across the pond, and what you can do months ahead to keep it from defining the trip.
Covered in this episode:
The source of 90-95% of problems that arise on a golf trip.
Why nonstop beats your preferred carrier, and why connecting overseas beats connecting at home.
Why you should avoid Heathrow with possible, and tips for when you can't.
Coordinating a group's arrivals and departures for a smooth start and end.
The right mindset for The Old Course Ballot.
Why Trip Insurance is absolutely essential and the benefit of having someone in your corner at 2am.
Additional Resources
Stuff Happens: Common Golf Travel Challenges and How to Avoid Them (https://www.haversham.com/what-could-go-wrong/)
9 Sept 2026
Just Returned: Nick Papadakes, PGA - Onwentsia Club
Nick Papadakes, PGA Head Professional at Onwentsia Club near Chicago and a longtime friend of H&B, joins Connor and D.J. for a wide-ranging conversation on golf travel overseas.
It begins with the Morcott Challenge, the junior event and cultural exchange between Lake Forest and Royal Dornoch that just wrapped in The Highlands, then heads down the roads less traveled to the Surrey heathland and remote Askernish.
Along the way, Nick shares what two decades have taught him: how to build a group with the right chemistry, why he almost never books a morning tee time, and the vital role of the Driver-Hosts who became part of the team.
He speaks candidly about how travel reshaped his approach to the game and what he now brings home to his own club and membership.
Whether you are planning your first trip across the pond or your tenth, this conversation is a reminder that the golf is what gets everyone on the plane, but the Good Life is what makes the trip.
19 Aug 2026
South West England – Uncharted Territory
There is a corner of England that most traveling golfers have never set foot in, and until Connor's recent trip, one H&B hadn't reached in years. The far southwest, from Devon to the cliffs of Cornwall, has quietly held some of the game's most rewarding links all along.
In this episode, Connor and D.J. retrace Connor's ten nights in the region, beginning in the storied Surrey heathland, working down the coast from one outstanding links to the next.
Along the way they discover the Good Life that sets this region apart: Michelin-starred dining, a slower and almost Mediterranean pace, hotels perched above the beach, and some of the warmest hospitality across the pond.
This is a region for the traveler who has already done the marquee trips and is ready for somewhere genuinely new: an authentic, uncommercialized links experience paired with some of the best Good Life offerings in Britain.
If you've been there and done that across the pond, Southwest England is a corner of the map worth discovering.
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