Golf Trips · Come here or get away
GRGS helps golfers move in both directions.
Visiting Grand Rapids? We help build the right West Michigan golf trip around your group. Live here and ready to get away? We help sort the destination, golf, travel, lodging, pacing, and tradeoffs so the trip makes sense before anybody starts booking pieces at random.
Two Directions. One Golf Desk.
Visiting West Michigan? Start with our local course knowledge. Ready to leave town? Start with your group, season, budget, and how far you want to travel. We help you choose a trip that fits.
Incoming
For golfers coming to Grand Rapids and West Michigan. We help shape the golf, where to stay, how the rounds fit together, what to do after golf, and which tradeoffs matter for your group.
Outgoing
For West Michigan golfers looking beyond home. Tell us the season, drive tolerance, group, budget, and kind of golf you want. GRGS helps narrow the destination and build the trip around what matters instead of handing you a generic list of golf resorts.
The standard is the same in either direction: the recommendation comes from fit, not who pays GRGS. Availability, rates, and provider policies are verified before they are represented as bookable facts.
West Michigan golfers · Winter
We are testing interest before we build the trip. No destination is promised and nothing is booked. If enough golfers line up around the same kind of escape, GRGS will compare realistic options and get actual quotes together.
The Destination
Grand Rapids gives golf groups something traditional resort destinations cannot: excellent public golf surrounding a real city. Spend the day playing through dunes, pine corridors, rolling farmland, and championship designs, then return to downtown hotels, restaurants, breweries, rooftops, and nightlife.
Distinctive public courses across West Michigan, selected around your group's budget, ability, and preferred style of golf.
Downtown dining, breweries, rooftops, entertainment, and walkable nightlife after the final putt drops.
A compact destination with courses, hotels, restaurants, and experiences arranged into an efficient itinerary.
West Michigan course and routing intelligence organized around the group you are bringing.
Start With The Experience
Competitive golf, great courses, local nightlife, and a schedule designed to keep the group moving.
Build This TripTop tier golf, elevated lodging, standout dining, and a more polished pace.
Build This TripClient entertainment, executive retreats, tournament formats, live scoring, and consolidated logistics.
Build This TripBirthdays, bachelor groups, reunions, and celebrations built around golf without becoming a generic party package.
Build This TripHow GRGS Thinks
The first conversation helps your group choose a direction: the kind of golf, a sensible home base, the pace of the days, and the tradeoffs that matter. If you want GRGS to develop the full plan, we agree on the planning scope and any fee first. You then receive the course sequence, lodging and dining plan, travel routing, provider checks, and alternatives for your group.
Planning direction
Best for: Groups that want the destination to make sense without researching every piece
Planning direction
Best for: Groups willing to spend more of the trip on the rounds that matter
Planning direction
Best for: Companies, clients, reunions and milestone groups with more moving parts
Submitting a trip inquiry commits you to nothing and does not purchase planning. If GRGS is a fit, any paid planning scope is agreed before the finished itinerary is produced.
The Golf
Every itinerary is built around the group. We consider handicap range, budget, pace, location, architectural preferences, travel time, and the kind of experience the captain wants to create.
The rounds a group talks about on the drive home.
Well kept local tracks that overdeliver for the money.
Tests with real teeth for players who want them.
Excellent golf that keeps the overall trip in budget.
The Home Base
GRGS recommends hotels that fit the group's priorities, with practical access to golf and strong options after the round. Each property controls its availability, rates, reservations, payments, and policies.
Restaurants, breweries, and nightlife out the front door, with an easy drive to the first tee.
Smaller properties with character, better rooms, and a more polished feel for the group.
Practical, comfortable, and positioned to shorten drive times across the whole itinerary.
Budget
Rather than one size fits all packages, every itinerary is designed around your preferred courses, travel dates, accommodations, and what your group wants to spend. Provider prices and availability remain theirs to confirm, and commercial or referral relationships never influence our recommendations.
Tell us the number you have in mind and we will build the strongest possible weekend around it.
Explore Our ExperiencesThe Planning Advantage
You bring the group. Grand Rapids Golf Society handles the planning.
How It Works
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Share the dates, number of golfers, approximate budget, and the atmosphere you want.
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GRGS reviews the group and explains the shape of the trip, the important tradeoffs, and what should be solved next—before the detailed itinerary is developed.
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If GRGS is a fit, the planning scope is agreed before the resolved itinerary, provider checks, routing, lodging, dining, and alternatives are produced.
Common questions
No. GRGS helps in both directions: visitors coming to Grand Rapids and West Michigan, and West Michigan golfers planning trips elsewhere. Our deepest destination intelligence is West Michigan; away-trip recommendations expand only where the evidence is strong enough to support the decision.
Yes. Start with your season, drive or flight tolerance, group size, budget, and the kind of golf you want. GRGS can help narrow the destination and trip shape before current provider availability and pricing are verified.
We recommend reaching out at least 4 to 6 weeks ahead for groups. Shorter notice is worth asking about, but each course and hotel confirms its own availability.
Yes. Course selection, tee placement, and format are built around the range of players in your group, so a mixed ability foursome still has a good day.
Absolutely. Tell us the courses you want on the itinerary and we will plan around them where provider availability allows, then suggest options that fit your budget and pace.
Yes. Courses, hotels, restaurants, and other providers set their own prices and policies, confirm reservations, and collect their charges directly. GRGS organizes those details in one itinerary.
Yes. GRGS can build planning options for buddies trips, bachelor groups, reunions, birthdays, client entertainment, and company outings. Provider availability, reservations, prices, policies, and fulfillment remain with each provider.
West Michigan weather can move quickly. We help your captain evaluate alternatives, while each course and hotel controls rescheduling, availability, and its own cancellation policies.
Yes. Reach out directly and we will build a custom itinerary that fits your group size, including groups smaller than four.
No. The form simply starts the planning conversation. It does not reserve provider inventory or commit your group to any purchase.
See full trip options, browse the course guide, read golfer-submitted West Michigan reviews, or contact us directly.
Your Weekend Starts Here
Tell us whether you are coming to West Michigan or heading somewhere else, then share the basics. GRGS will help turn the group, dates, budget, and golf you want into a trip that actually fits.
Plan My TripStart with the group. Resolve the trip after the fit is clear.
