Go Golfing is going Global

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Travel with Go Golfing and experience the world’s most unforgettable golf and themed tours. We treat everyone like family and go the extra mile to ensure that our guests have the best travel experience of their lives.

RENOWNED for its unique, hosted, luxury golf tours with exciting off-course entertainment,

Australia’s largest and leading golf tour operator, Go Golfing, is going global.

Founded on the Gold Coast by Peter McCarthy in 1996, Go Golfing offers golf tours and tournaments at the world’s most exciting destinations.

Go Golfing is Australia’s leading and largest golf tour company. Quite simply we love what we do and it shows.

More than 100,000 happy clients have enjoyed Go Golfing’s hosted tours to more than 31 countries, cementing its reputation as the Australian golf tour company golfers trust and have voted Best golf tour operator four years in a row.

Go Golfing is going global through an international partnership model that offers strategic partners pro-rata ownership in Go Golfing’s holding company, scheduled to be listed on the stock exchange in 2025.

“Our partnership model ensures that we only work with champion partners who share our values and commitment to ensuring our guests have unforgettable experiences when they travel with us,” With over 80 per cent return clients, we constantly seek ways to improve and uncover bucket list destinations, golf courses and guest experiences.”

Our global partnership model incorporates a formal partnership with other champions passionate about their chosen field and combining our market-leading golf tour services with subject or destination experts offer our guests exciting new travel adventures and services.

Go Golfing has and is securing global strategic partners in key accommodation, airline, travel and tour services and is actively growing a nationwide partner and sales network of golf tour operators, golf professionals and other champions working in the golf, sports or travel industry.

“We are formalising partnerships with some of the world’s best cruising and travel companies to provide our market-leading golf tour and tournament services to their global brands.” Peter McCarthy – CEO

Go Golfing’s latest partnership is with Australia’s foremost wildlife artists Gillie and Marc, with a planned signature BIG 5 Wildlife tour series launch in Sydney in August 2022.

These luxury hosted Golf and Wildlife tours will visit the world’s five most important animal kingdoms during 2023 and 2024, with tour donations to Gillie and Marc global wildlife conservation projects with the World Wildlife Fund.

Our International Tours

Go Golfing is expanding our international destinations with more than 60 international golf and dual-themed tours scheduled from 2023 onwards. Our luxury and royal tour programs are now dual-themed to ensure that our non-golfers also have a fantastic time on tour. We engage with local golf and destination specialists who share our passion for world-class guest service and bucket list experiences.  We seek to immerse ourselves and embrace the local culture, arts, language, entertainment, and culinary options to experience the best of every destination.

 “Our international golf tours play many of the world’s best golf courses and include dynamic, additional tour themes such as wildlife, battlefields, horse racing, history, arts and culture, food and wine, music and cultural festivals, photography, rugby and bridge.”

Go Golfing guests can choose from LUXURY 13-night/14-day tours (for up to 30 guests), ultra-luxury ROYAL Tours (maximum of 20 guests) and shorter ENCORE tours of 6x nights/7x days. Guests get to play the world’s best courses and often enjoy special privileges.

From New Zealand to the Northern Territory, India, Hawaii or Japan, just to name a few, there’s a Go Golfing experience to suit everyone.

Our Go Golfing tours give guests the chance to travel with like-minded golfers who want to play and have fun on and off the course. Everything is organised for you, with friendly tour hosts working with top local guides to show you the best a region or country has to offer.

There are plenty of activities for golfers and non-golfers alike. If you’re travelling with friends, Go Golfing can cater for draw requests to allow you to play with them and everyone else.

Australian experiences include the magnificent Golf and The Ghan, which starts in Darwin, where guests are whisked away to discover the Top End’s greatest treasures between rounds of golf. The tour continues as guests board The Ghan to journey through the red centre on a 2979km all-inclusive rail journey, stopping along the way for incredible day tours and experiences, before arriving in Adelaide to play some of Australia’s best golf courses, including Royal Adelaide and The Grange, and take a day trip to the Barossa Valley.

The bespoke tours also tie in with other major sports and entertainment events like Melbourne Cup, Rugby World Cup, Australia Open, Formula One and many more.

Our Tournaments

Go Golfing runs Australia’s largest annual amateur golf tournament, The Gold Coast Masters, and Southeast Asia’s largest amateur golf tournament, the Centara Masters.

Go Golfing has formally partnered with Asia’s largest inbound golf operator, GolfAsian, to offer six major tournaments in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia each year. This partnership places Go Golfing at the forefront of golf tour operators worldwide, with fantastic golf tournaments and large guest numbers on Asia’s best golf courses in Hua Hin, Pattaya, Phuket, Danang, Hanoi and Cambodia.

“When you play in our hosted tournaments, go on our escorted tours or book one of our holidays, our experience travels with you,” Peter says. “We’ll spoil you and you’ll laugh, have fun and make friends while enjoying amazing golf and travel experiences.”

Our Services

“Our global partnership model ensures that we only work with champion partners who share our values and commitment to ensuring our guests have unforgettable experiences when they travel with us,” With over 80 per cent return clients, we constantly seek ways to improve and uncover bucket list destinations, golf courses and guest experiences.”

It’s why Go Golfing’s positive, fun and well-trained tour hosts are committed to exceptional client service. Their ‘can do’ attitude to tours and tournaments offers safe, group travel with old and new friends.

“Single guests can travel and have fun as we take care of everything.” Travelling with a Go Golfing group is such fun and lifelong friendships are built as we create a family and community where everyone is embraced, included and taken care of.

In fact, the company considers its large, loyal and growing client base “to be family”.

“We survived Covid thanks to our family’s loyalty and now look forward to providing even more services and fabulous bucket list golf and themed tours.”

Ongoing guest feedback and client surveys drive Go Golfing’s passion for excellence.

“We love what we do and it shows. Bringing golfers together for the best time of their life. That’s our promise. It’s in our DNA.”

“Our guest service is unsurpassed with attention to detail. Everything is taken care of from start to finish as we get golfers of all ages and abilities together for the time of their lives.”

– Peter McCarthy, Go Golfing

 

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