Our Life Changing Golf Trips

Our Fairways for Freedom® golf trips are truly unique experiences, and each year we conduct three different types of journeys — Red, White and Blue Trips.

Red Trips
Red Golf Trips are retreats for combat-injured veterans only, usually in the U.S., with an emphasis on therapeutic sessions, relaxing activities such as hiking, fly fishing and horseback riding, and mindfulness and yoga. They also include lots of golf practice time, golf instruction and play on easier courses.

White Trips
White Golf Trips are international trips, with travel to Ireland, Scotland and other beautiful international locations. There is an emphasis on therapeutic sessions and mindfulness and yoga, plus golf practice time, golf instruction and two optional golf days. We stay in one hotel the entire trip.

Blue Trips
Blue Golf Trips are more demanding all around, with more intense itineraries and therapeutic sessions, including mindfulness and yoga, and golf almost every day on some of the world’s most spectacular and demanding golf courses. We stay at two or more hotels for the week.

On our White and Blue Trips, specially selected combat-injured veterans are sponsored financially and joined on the trip by an ambassador. Our ambassadors are people who want to give something back to our men and women in uniform who have sacrificed so much. Together, they play some of the greatest golf courses in the world, create everlasting memories, develop rock-solid friendships and even more than that, inspire each other to continue to push forward.

International Trips for 2020 and 2021 resumed in 2022 with stringent Covid-19 safety precautions

In September 2022 we again toured the best courses of Ireland’s Inishowen Peninsula and stayed the entire week at two first-class golf hotels. Due to Covid-19 restrictions and precautions, every participant was tested every morning for Covid-19 and as many activities as possible were conducted outdoors.

In NW Ireland, we played six incredible rounds, including at Ballyliffin-Glashedy (site of the 2018 Irish Open), three courses at Rosapenna (Sandy Hills, Old Tom Morris and the brand-new St Patrick’s), and the magnificent and redesigned Portsalon Golf Club.

On a new trip (and new destination for FFF) the following week, we played six magnificent courses on the English coast, including the historic courses of the British Open — Royal St. George’s, Princes and Royal Cinque Ports.

Each trip consisted of 8 combat-injured veterans, 5 sponsoring Ambassadors, and 3 staff. We are planning a similar international trip at the moment for 2023. If you would like to become an Ambassador and support these outstanding men and women, please visit our Support our Veterans page. Send us an email on the Contact page (fairways4freedom@gmail.com), and one of our Fairways for Freedom® dedicated volunteer staff will get back to you within 24 hours.

Past International and U.S. Trips

2022

The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, WVA) (6 days)
Courses played: The Greenbrier Old White (three times), The Greenbrier Meadows (twice).

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The Equinox (Manchester, VT) (6 days)
Courses played: The Equinox (twice), Ekwanok (twice), Old Dorset Field Club

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Northwest Ireland (8 days)
Courses played: Ballyliffin (Glashedy), Ballyliffin (Old Links), Rosapenna (Sandy Hills), Rosapenna (Old Tom Morris), Rosapenna St. Patrick’s, Portsalon

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Southeast England (8 days)
Courses played: Broome Park Golf Club, Royal St. George's Golf Club, Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Prince's Golf Club, Littlestone Golf Club, Walmer & Kingsdown Golf Club

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(No trips or retreats were conducted during 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.)