Playfair Golf Travel
Leisure/Hospitality - Nashville, TN, US
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Playfair Golf Travel provides customized golf trips worldwide and is an affiliate of Lake Shore Travel, a Virtuoso agency. Please contact us for your trip of a lifetime! Many companies claim that their business is in their DNA, but few mean it like Playfair Golf Travel, whose family forebears have been traveling/golfing for over 200 years, founding clubs worldwide, including Scotland (Scotscraig Golf Club, 1818, and the Union Club, St Andrews, 1835, which merged with The Royal & Ancient Golf Club), India (Royal Calcutta Golf Club, 1829, the oldest golf club in the world outside of the British Isles), Australia (Royal Melbourne Golf Club, 1891, ranked as one of the top courses globally) and Japan (Kobe Golf Club, 1903).Founding Golf Expert, Edward Playfair, first organized golf trips in the 1990s as Secretary of the St Andrews University Golf Club, the world's oldest university golf club. Since then, he has arranged and led a number of highly successful tours of leading Scottish golf courses. Though Edward holds three citizenships and currently lives in the States, he was born in Australia and raised in the United Kingdom with deep family roots in St Andrews (where his ancestor Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair is credited with saving the Old Course, building the Royal and Ancient Clubhouse, and rejuvenating the ancient town). Edward has in-depth knowledge of traditional British links courses from playing them for over 30 and as a published golf historian. He is a former appraiser/auctioneer of golfing antiques/memorabilia for Sotheby's and a former consultant historian to Coca Cola's sponsorship of The Masters. Founding principal, Carrie Playfair, is a veteran of the travel and hospitality industry and has gained widespread travel experience through two extended global circumnavigations visiting dozens of countries. Born and raised in the USA, she lived in Britain for 10 years, gaining dual citizenship as well as unrivaled golf trips experience from a US perspective.
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