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10/21/2026

WEEK 6
NOTES FROM A TRAVELING GOLFER — #6
"Excuse Me, the Gentleman Is Singing"

Our first golf trip to Ireland was epic. We played courses that, all these years later, are still some of my favorites — Lahinch, Ballybunion, Tralee, Dooks and others. Even our arrival day was memorable: we got off the plane and headed straight to Shannon Golf Club, right next to the airport, where the Concorde was practicing takeoffs and landings while we played. What an amazingly beautiful airplane — and man, was it LOUD.

But one of my favorite memories from that entire trip happened after we played Tralee. That evening, we went to a classic Irish pub called The Oyster for dinner. It was exactly what you hope to find in Ireland — a nice band playing, families enjoying the evening, locals having a pint and a meal, just a wonderful, authentic Irish pub. And we were loving it. We were also, shall we say, well served by that point in the evening.

After dinner, Jeff, Floyd, my dad Mel and I were sitting right next to a piano. The band took a break, and an older gentleman walked over, sat down at the piano and began to play and sing. He was wonderful, and we were absolutely loving it — in fact, we were enjoying ourselves so much that we began talking about just how much we were enjoying ourselves. Apparently, a little louder than ideal. (Remember the part about being well served?)

Suddenly, I felt a tap on the back of my head. I turned around.

"Excuse me. The gentleman is singing."

Oh. Wow. So sorry. We quieted down immediately.

The band eventually came back, played another set and took another break, and back came our piano player. Before long, THUMP — another tap on the back of my head, this one with a little more authority behind it. "Excuse me. The gentleman is singing." Message received. Well, mostly.

Before the night was over, it had become a running joke. We were politely — but very clearly — reprimanded several times. Eventually, we moved back a bit, behaved ourselves and ended up laughing with some of the same people who had been telling us to keep it down.

To this day, it remains one of my favorite nights and memories from all of our golf travels, and there's something about that night that has stuck with me beyond the laughs. Those are the experiences we work hard to create on our trips today. Of course, the golf matters — you go to Ireland dreaming about Lahinch, Ballybunion and Tralee. But I also want people to experience Ireland. Give me the local pub filled with families and regulars. Give me the older gentleman who simply decides to sit down at the piano and sing. Give me the people sitting behind you who aren't afraid to teach a few loud Americans a little lesson about respect and being polite. Those are the moments you can't manufacture — you just have to put yourself in the right places and let them happen.

We went to Ireland to play some of the greatest golf courses in the world. All these years later, I can still picture those courses. But I can also still hear, "Excuse me. The gentleman is singing." And I wouldn't trade that night for anything.

What's a travel memory you still laugh about years later — something you never could have planned?

About Brian & GoGolfTours:

Brian Volmer, his wife, Dana, and their son, Aidan, run GoGolfTours and spend much of the year traveling, golfing and sharing the places they love with others. Notes From a Traveling Golfer is a collection of stories, people, places and experiences gathered along the way.

GoGolfTours | Travel Well. Golf Often.

10/07/2026

NOTES FROM A TRAVELING GOLFER — #4
A Simple Idea
North Berwick, Scotland — August 2015
Like everyone, I've had a ton of ideas over the years. Some were good. Some weren't. And some, honestly, we'll never know.
This one started on a particularly windy day at North Berwick, playing with friends. Somewhere out there my mind wandered back to Anthem, where my son Aidan was getting ready to start high school. He was a nice player, but like almost every junior in Phoenix, he'd grown up on desert golf — hit it high, let it fly, spin it and stop it. Standing on a Scottish links in 30 mph wind, watching my ball do things I hadn't asked it to do, I started wondering what would happen if I brought some of those desert rats over here and let them figure it out.
After the round, I mentioned it to Sam Fox, the starter at North Berwick at the time. Sam introduced me to Rick Fowlner, the club's Junior Convener. I told Rick my idea, and admitted I figured the kids would struggle to adapt to this kind of golf. Rick didn't hesitate.
"They're good players. They'll adapt quickly."
That was enough for me. I started contacting courses.
Then came the harder part — recruiting a team. I assumed parents would be lining up to send their kid to Scotland with a guy they barely knew. They were not lining up. By January, I had three players committed and was seriously thinking about calling the whole thing off.
Dana wouldn't hear of it.
"I don't care if it's just you and Aidan. You have to do this."
A late entry from a family friend, Anthony Maramma, rounded us out. In June of 2016, I took four high school golfers to Scotland.
It was incredible. Every course welcomed us with open arms. The golf was great, the competition was stiff, and the camaraderie never let up the entire week.
By the time we flew home, I knew this wasn't a one-and-done. We needed to show this place to more people.
The next year we took 10. Then 32. Then 70. We've since pulled it back down to a more manageable 30 a year — but 10 years later, we've introduced more than 500 junior athletes to links golf. Our alumni now include hundreds of college golfers, several pros, a few Walker Cup participants, and, more than anything, a lot of people we now call friends.
As a bonus I never saw coming, that trip eventually grew into GoGolfTours — the company Aidan, Dana and I now run together, taking hundreds of people around the world every year to golf, eat, drink and, most of all, meet people.
I think about that January a lot — three committed players, no company, no plan beyond one trip, and every reasonable excuse in the world to fold the idea up and move on. Golf teaches you that lesson better than almost anything else. You can stand over a shot and talk yourself out of it a dozen different ways. But the only guaranteed miss is the one you never hit.
So I hit it. And a decade, 500 athletes and a company later, I'm awfully glad I did.
What's an idea you almost talked yourself out of — one that turned into something much bigger than you expected?

About Brian & GoGolfTours:
Brian Volmer, his wife, Dana, and their son, Aidan, run GoGolfTours and spend much of the year traveling, golfing and sharing the places they love with others. Notes From a Traveling Golfer is a collection of stories, people, places and experiences gathered along the way.
GoGolfTours | Travel Well. Golf Often.
Notes from a traveling golfer is a series that I started, just some fun stories (at least for me) about our times traveling and golfing through life. Stories are posted each Wednesday on the GoGolfTours page as well as my personal page Brian Volmer.
Below is the 2016 SJGI Team, walking down Quality Street in North Berwick. See less

09/30/2026

NOTES FROM A TRAVELING GOLFER — #03
A Called Shot
Anthem Country Club — 2006
I've been fortunate enough to see quite a few holes-in-one over the years, and there are several I'll never forget. Dana's first, on the 4th at Anthem Ironwood, is a story for another day. My own, playing with my dad, Mel, and my son, Aidan, all in the same group. And Chase Coulson's 342-yard ace on the 11th at The Glen in 2026. Yes, the 11th. All incredible memories.
But the greatest hole-in-one I've ever seen was also the first.
It was my first round as a member at Anthem Country Club. I was paired with an older gentleman who was just getting back to golf after some serious health issues. We started on the back nine, and when we reached the par-3 8th, I had the honor. I hit a nice shot to about five feet, just past the pin. My playing partner looked at me and asked how many holes-in-one I'd had.
I told him I'd never had one. I'd never even seen one.
He bent over, put his tee in the ground, and very quietly said:
"Let's see if we can change that."
Then he did. A beautiful shot that never left the pin. Straight in the hole. You can't make this stuff up.
As long as I play golf, I don't think anything will ever top that one. The funny thing is, all these years later, I don't even remember the golfer's name.
But I'll never forget his shot.
A called shot.
What's the most memorable hole-in-one you've made or witnessed? Tell us about it on the GoGolfTours page.
— Brian

About Brian & GoGolfTours:
Brian Volmer and his wife, Dana, own GoGolfTours and spend much of the year traveling, golfing and sharing the places they love with others. Notes From a Traveling Golfer is a collection of stories, people, places and experiences gathered along the way.
GoGolfTours | Travel Well. Golf Often.
Chase Coulson Hole in One, 11 at The Glen, Scotland 342 yards!!! June 29, 2026

Chase Coulson #11 The Glen, 342 Yards HIO June 29, 2026

09/23/2026

NOTES FROM A TRAVELING GOLFER — #02
Beige to Fuchsia
My father, Mel, and I spent years playing golf together at Lake Forest Country Club in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. Sometimes we were partners, sometimes opponents, and always competitive.
Mel was a conservative guy of German heritage, and his idea of a perfect day at the club was to play well and not be noticed doing it. Our routine was simple: get there early, play, go home. Nobody needed to know we were there. He loved it. When we had some success in a member event, he'd say:
"It's great. We go out and compete, and when we have some success, the other members ask, 'Mel who? Brian who?'"
For Mel, that was the goal.
Then I married Dana.
Dana looked at the monthly dues and did some quick math. If we were paying for the club, we were going to use the club. Dinners, events, conversations that lasted longer than the walk from the parking lot to the first tee. It didn't take long for "Brian who?" and "Mel who?" to become:
"Dana's husband."
and
"Dana's father-in-law."
The Volmer family went from beige to fuchsia in record time.
I wouldn't change a thing. Our social circle grew, the club became a much bigger part of our lives, and we made friendships that have lasted for years. It stopped being a place where we played golf and became a place where we belonged. Thirty-plus years of golf travel has taught us it's the same everywhere: the courses are wonderful, but the trips people remember are the ones where a stranger's clubhouse starts to feel like a second home.
Thanks, Dana. You brought a whole lot of color into our lives, and there is no other way I would rather have it.
So, what color are YOU at your club?
🟫 Beige: slip in, play your golf and quietly head home.
🌸 Fuchsia: everybody knows you, everybody knows where to find you, and the club is basically your second home.
Tell us your color on the Go Golf Tours page. I have a feeling there are a lot more fuchsias out there than will admit it.
— Brian

About Brian & Go GolfTours: Brian Volmer and his wife, Dana, own GoGolfTours and spend much of the year traveling, golfing and sharing the places they love with others. Notes From a Traveling Golfer is a collection of stories, people, places and experiences gathered along the way.
We will be posting Notes from a Traveling Golfer weekly going forward, please follow us at Go Golf Tours on Facebook
GoGolfTours | Travel Well. Golf Often.

09/16/2026

Introducing Notes From a Traveling Golfer

For more than 35 years, golf has taken Dana and me to some pretty remarkable places. But when I think back on all those trips, it’s rarely just the golf courses I remember.

It’s the people we met. The things that made us laugh. The places we stumbled across. The friendships that came from the game. And every once in a while, something happened that turned into a story we’re still telling years later.

Over the years, I’ve written some of those stories down. Recently, I decided it was time to start sharing them.

So, once a week, I’m going to post one as part of a series I’m calling Notes From a Traveling Golfer.

Some will be about Scotland. Some about New Zealand, Ireland, Africa, Australia and places closer to home. There will be stories about Dana and the kids, old friends, golf characters, great courses, terrible shots and a few things that really have very little to do with golf at all.

I just enjoy telling these stories, and hopefully some of you will enjoy reading them.

We’ll be collecting all of them on the GoGolfTours page, so if you’d like to follow along each week, please follow GoGolfTours there.

And if one of these stories reminds you of a golf trip, a friend, or a moment of your own, I’d love to hear about it.

First up: “A Wee Breeze.”

There are a lot of things to love about golf, and particularly links golf. I’m not sure everyone fell in love with the game while playing in gale-force winds, but I did.

Back in 1991, I was a teaching tennis pro and played golf a few times a month during the summer. I enjoyed it, but I considered myself a tennis guy. Golf was simply something fun to do with buddies.

That year my dad invited one of my good friends, Jeff Cook, and me to accompany him and his business partner, Floyd Withers, to Scotland to play some golf.

I remember thinking, *Scotland? Really? Scotland is going to be my first trip to Europe?*

But I knew it would be fun, and traveling with your parent does tend to make a trip pretty much all-inclusive, so I said yes.

We arrived in Glasgow and immediately drove to a little-known course called North Berwick.

We played 36 holes that day and loved it. The golf, the views, the caddies. Just a really fun day.

The following day we were playing Gullane No. 1.

A storm was going through. It was dry, but the wind was blowing 40+ mph with gusts considerably higher.

Standing on the seventh tee at Gullane, the highest point on the course, I can still picture my father leaning into the wind at an impossible angle — and the wind literally holding him up.

We played all 18, laughing and shaking our heads at how strong it was. Shots downwind. Shots into it. Balls going places we couldn't believe. It was completely ridiculous and an absolute blast.

After golf, we went into the old men's bar at Gullane. It was a small, basic bar. We sat down, ordered bowls of soup and a few pints and proceeded to go on and on about the wind.

The shots we hit with it.

The shots we hit against it.

How we'd never seen anything like it.

Meanwhile, two Scots were sitting quietly at the next table listening to the four Americans carry on.

For context, just a couple of days earlier Florida had been hit by a hurricane.

Finally there was a lull in our conversation.

One of the Scots looked over and said loudly enough to make sure we heard him:

“Aye, a wee breeze out there today, eh?”

Without missing a beat, his friend added:

“Yes, I understand they board up the state when they get winds like this in the U.S.”

Classic Scottish humor. Dry and right to the point.

We absolutely loved it.

We ended up spending another hour sitting there talking with those two guys.

When we headed back toward North Berwick, I couldn't stop grinning.

There was something about that day — the challenge, the wind, the views, the variety of shots, the creativity the game demanded, good breaks, bad breaks and then sitting in that little bar laughing with a couple of Scots we'd never met.

The rest of the group was tired.

I wasn't.

I insisted we stop at North Berwick so I could play another round.

And somewhere during that day, golf stopped being something I did occasionally with my buddies.

I fell in love with the game.

Thirty-five years later, it has become a huge part of my life and my family's life. North Berwick is our summer home and we have created countless friends through golf.

And strangely enough, I can trace a lot of it back to a 40-mph wind at Gullane and a couple of Scots calling it “a wee breeze.”

What's the most extreme weather you've ever played golf in?

Post your story on the GoGolfTours page. We'd love to hear it.

About Brian & GoGolfTours:

Brian Volmer and his wife, Dana, own GoGolfTours and spend much of the year traveling, golfing and sharing the places they love with others. *Notes From a Traveling Golfer* is a collection of stories, people, places and experiences gathered along the way.

Thanks to Kate Connolly for the video below, it represents A Wee Breeze perfectly. Taken on the Drake University Women's Golf trip to North Berwick in 2025.
Kate is currently a senior, a good friend and the best athlete in the Connolly family!

09/14/2026

🇳🇿 HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT SPENDING PART OF YOUR WINTER IN NEW ZEALAND?

Do you love golf?
Love to travel?
Enjoy good w**e, great food and discovering new places?
Or maybe you just enjoy traveling with Brian & Dana?

Then join us this afternoon at 4:00 PM MDT for a casual Zoom conversation about Pars & Pours — New Zealand.

For 28 days, our guests actually get to live in Hawke’s Bay—with their own apartment, rental car, full golf club membership with unlimited golf, some great outings, and plenty of time to explore New Zealand at their own pace.

Dana and I spend part of our winter there ourselves, and we absolutely love it. We’ll tell you why, explain how Pars & Pours works, and answer whatever questions you have.

No obligation. No sales pitch. Just grab a glass of w**e, join us on Zoom and see if spending part of your winter in New Zealand sounds as good to you as it does to us.

🍷 TODAY — 4:00 PM MDT
🇳🇿 Pars & Pours — New Zealand Golf & W**e Getaway

👉 JOIN US HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81139265469?pwd=DYNkEazQNFkYqaOHI9wLTnZvaMv7Ob.1

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TRAVEL WELL. GOLF OFTEN.

09/03/2026

Ocean greens. Highland air. City lights. Street food nights.

Vietnam Golf & Discovery · March 16 – 27, 2027 · 11 Nights · Da Nang, Da Lat & Ho Chi Minh City

$5,150 USD / $7,165 CAD

🏌️ 4 rounds at 3 bucket-list courses — BRG Legend, Hoiana Shores x2, Ba Na Hills
🌊 7 nights in ocean-view rooms at Fusion Resort, Da Nang
⛵ Scenic cruise included
🏔️ 2 nights in Da Lat — cool air, gardens, colonial charm
🍜 2 nights in Ho Chi Minh City — Vespa tour, Cu Chi Tunnels, street food nights
🚐 Transfers & lodging handled — just show up and swing

Brian & Dana, owners of GoGolfTours, host every trip personally — they're not sending you, they're going with you.

View the itinerary and book: https://www.wetravel.com/i/69fa2077a6977bdaba009597

Email [email protected] or call +1 314.520.7109 to learn more.

08/22/2026

Both Pars & Pours trips sold out quick – so we added another!

February Hawkes Bay is open — but not for long.

Pars & Pours · February 12 – March 12, 2027 · Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

☀️ 28 days of sunshine while everyone else is in winter
⛳ Unlimited golf with full club membership
🍷 Private w**e tasting at one of the world's 12 Great W**e Capitals
🏡 Private furnished apartment · Rental car included · Live like a local

Book today for $800 CAD off with code: CANADA2027

Aidan and Olivia host on the ground the entire trip. You're never on your own — but you're always free to do your own thing.

View the itinerary and book: https://www.wetravel.com/i/6a736673bacc4adee4bef676 -s-bay-golf-w**e-and-sunshine-escape

Email [email protected] or call +1 (623) 302-4024 to learn more.

04/17/2026

Một, hai, ba, dô To us! 32 years and loving each year more than the last.
The new Delta lounge in Salt Lake is awesome!
Da Nang tomorrow! Be sure to watch for updates on Vietnam.

04/04/2026

Scotland keeps coming up in conversation. Everyone who's been says the same thing — you have to go. So we made it easy.

GoGolfTours Scotland Coed Tour · July 21–30, 2026

⛳ 7 world-class rounds — Royal Dornoch, North Berwick & more
🏰 Castle visits, coastal towns & Highland scenery for non-golfers
🚂 9 nights in walkable seaside town centers
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Small group, thoughtfully paced — golf and non-golf days built in
Brian & Dana host every trip personally — they're not sending you, they're going with you.

Book today or learn more: https://wetravel.com/i/688a1f4b1e798fee48552d5e
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