I'm Tom. For years I've been the designated planner for golf trips with my family and friends. Toronto. Whistler. St. George. Palm Beach. Buddies' trips, family trips, the bucket-list weekends, the family-friendly compromises. If someone had to spend hours finding courses and putting together an itinerary, it was me. I didn't mind — I actually enjoyed it.

What I didn't enjoy was every golf travel website I came across.

They all felt the same. Pre-packaged itineraries. "3 nights, 3 rounds." Resorts that looked like they were designed for a stock photo. You'd type in a destination and get back a brochure. Nothing that felt like it was built for the annual trip planner who just wants to play great golf and make some memories — while planning it themselves.

So I built the site that would've been perfect for me across all those years of planning, and figured I'd share it. I suspect there are a lot of golfers out there who'd rather plan their own trip, on their own time, knowing what their group actually likes.

Past the Pin is the site I always wished existed. Not a booking platform trying to upsell you on airport transfers. Not a listicle padded out to hit a word count. A real, community-powered place where your friend group can browse courses, compare options, and put together a trip that fits your vibe — not some generic package designed for everyone and no one.

Filter by terrain. Filter by budget. Find a mountain track none of you have played. Discover a links course that'll humble everyone equally. There's no right answer — just the trip that works for your group.

The courses are public. The opinions are real. The reviews are written by people who actually played the course. And if you've found a destination that deserves more attention, you can submit it. This thing only gets better when more people pitch in.

There are plenty of companies that'll book your golf trip for you — flights, hotel, tee times, all wrapped up in a package. The thing is, that's how they make money: by selling you what's on their shelf. So they're never going to tell you a famous resort is overpriced, or that you'd have more fun two hours down the road for half the money. Past the Pin will. No course pays to be listed here, and nothing's marked up.

This site isn't for the golfer who wants to hand the whole thing off. It's for the one who actually likes planning the trip — the person in every group who picks the courses, books the stay, and sorts out the tee times. It's built to hand that person better tools, not to take the job away from them.

So you get the honest version: the courses real golfers have actually played and reviewed, the bars and restaurants worth your visit, the rain-day backup plan — the whole trip, not just the golf. Free, no package, no sales pitch.

You can use most of the site without signing in — but a free account (just your email, no password) makes it stick:

I'm a forgettable golfer like everyone else. I can shoot 74 one round and 100 the next. Last year at Paiute Wolf in Vegas we'd waited all week to play the 15th — the Sawgrass-esque island green that's the whole reason you book Paiute. The tee got backed up. Two groups behind us were watching. I cold-shanked one directly into the water. Everyone laughed at me. I'm the guy this site is built for, not above him.

I've been on a lot of trips. I've planned a lot of them. I've spent way too many hours bouncing between resort websites and Reddit threads. But I'm one guy with one group of friends — and there's a near-zero chance I've covered every destination perfectly, listed every course worth playing, or gotten every detail right.

If I missed a course you love, picked the wrong photo, ranked something too high or too low, or have a hidden gem near you that deserves to be on this site — tell me. Every destination page has a reviews section open to anyone, a "Know a course we missed? Suggest it" button right below the courses, and the contact form further down.

Got an entire destination that belongs on the site? There's a submit a destination form on the homepage — give me the basics and I'll build out the full page.

One other thing I'm bad at: off-course recommendations. A big part of any golf trip is what happens after the round — the dinner, the dive bar, the pub where you re-litigate every missed putt over beers. I'm not a food critic, and I don't trust online reviews to tell me where actual golfers want to eat. If you've got a quiet restaurant or pub in a golf town that locals and traveling golfers love — not the food-influencer pick — that's the kind of intel I want on this site. Send it.

This is the whole model. Past the Pin gets better the more golfers use it — your feedback is what makes the next person's trip great.

The whole point of this site is simple: have fun booking the trip that works for you. Find something new. Play courses you'd never have found otherwise. And if it's great — and it will be — come back next year and do it again somewhere else.

New types of courses. New regions. New hidden gems none of you have played. That's the loop. Year over year, trip over trip, your group builds a map of great golf that's entirely your own.