Independent Golf Travel Guides
Course-by-course guides to the places worth flying for — written by someone who has played them, with the green fees, the contacts and the local knowledge you would otherwise spend a month assembling.
Why these exist
Planning a golf trip usually means twenty browser tabs, a spreadsheet, three forum threads from 2016 and a phone number that no longer works.
Beyond the 18th started because that is a miserable way to spend the weeks before a trip you have been looking forward to all year. Each guide gathers everything in one place: the courses worth building a trip around, what they cost, who to call, where to stay within striking distance, where to eat after the round, and what to do on the days you are not playing.
Everything is checked against the clubs' own sources before it goes in. Where a detail could not be confirmed, it says so rather than guessing.
Golf and travel have been my two great passions for as long as I can remember. Every course in these guides is one I have played myself and judged worth the trip. My aim is to make planning your next golf holiday a pleasure rather than a chore, and to put everything you need in one place. Darren Sabbagh · Founder
The Collection
Each guide is a single file that opens in any browser, on any device. Yours to keep, no app and no subscription.
Indian Ocean
Island Fairways · Creole Soul
Five championship courses on one small island, from Ernie Els at Anahita to the boat ride out to Île aux Cerfs. Plus where to stay on each coast, and how to pace a week so the golf and the beach both get their due.
Arabian Peninsula
Desert Fairways · Arabian Hospitality
Fifteen courses across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, the northern emirates and Muscat — the Majlis and the Earth Course through to Al Mouj on the Omani coast, with the hotels, restaurants and desert days that go around them.
Cape to Kruger
Championship Links · Big Five Country
Twenty-one courses from Fancourt and Leopard Creek to the nine holes at Skukuza where the hazards have teeth. The Garden Route, the Winelands, the Lowveld and the Highveld, with the driving times that actually make a route work.
Each guide is priced on its own — buy one, or buy all three.
In progress
A guide only appears once I have been there, played the courses and checked every detail myself. That takes time, which is why the list is short — and why you can trust what is on it. Several more are in the works.
What's Inside
The same structure in every guide, so once you know one you know them all.
What each course is actually like to play, who designed it, the par and the yardage, the hole worth the trip, and an honest read on whether the green fee is money well spent.
Every course plotted on a hand-drawn map you can pan and zoom. Hover any pin for the detail and click straight through to the club.
The club's own telephone number and booking email under every course, taken from its own website — not a reseller's call centre. Tap to call, tap to email.
Hotels and lodges by region and by budget, from the on-course grand to the small and characterful, with search links so you can price them yourself.
Restaurants worth booking, and the non-golf days — safari, wine farms, dhow cruises, mountain drives — for whoever came along and does not play.
Airlines and routings, visas, currency, tipping, caddie etiquette, dress codes, club hire, booking lead times and the seasons to aim for or avoid.
The Planning Service
The guides are the starting point. If you would rather have the whole trip worked out for you, I will research and build a detailed, day-by-day plan for the trip you want — which courses to play and in what order, where to stay, how to get between them, and what is worth doing on the days you are not playing.
You then make every booking yourself, directly with each supplier, in your own name. I do not make reservations for you, I do not take payment on your behalf, and I never hold your money. Beyond the 18th is not a travel agent or a tour operator and sells no travel services — what I sell is the research and the plan. There is no agency margin on your green fees or room rates, and no commission on anything you book.
Get in Touch
Ask away — whether it is which guide suits your trip, whether a particular course is in there, or how the planning service works.
I reply to everything myself, usually within a day.