11 Tips for Ironclad Golf travel from season 2025

no one consent Pain and no organ likes less than the brain.

For its many gifts of functioning function – thinking, reasoning, feeling, breathing – the brain possesses an equally strange ability to forget. When presenting with unpleasant stimuli, the brain will go to large lengths to avoid trying it. Often, the mechanism of coping with the choice is amnesia.

For the most part, the painful moments in my life are everyday: Leaving the hat in the laundry, accidentally wash an article of red dresses with whites, or placing performance fabrics through dryers. (For a type-b person in a type A family, laundry is a frequent area of anxiety.) But in some cases, lessons from these painful moments are real opportunities for organizational learning, important lessons to navigate high-stress situations, ways to keep my shirts from returning the rose-that I am aware.

One of my favorite podcasts, Football Ringer Fantasyhas developed a genius way to make exactly this kind of mental indexation. In an episode that has become an annual tradition, hosts Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz and Craig Horlbeck get the end of every season of fantasy football to distribute them memory Tattoos – or the painful lessons they would do tattoos on themselves to remember for next year. The episode is an eye to The 2000 2000 movie Christopher Nolanin which the protagonist struck by amnesia tattoos himself with his autobiographical information but also serves as a kind my fault For the audience, an opportunity to learn collective from individual pain.

I have learned an unusual collection of painful golf teaching in 2025. I have spent large parts of the last six months on the street, crucifying the United States (with Usually Retigment Clubs) in tracking the best golf stories. I spent the mornings in the backyard of Jim Nantz PAR-3, in the afternoon at the Arnold Palmer’s Barnyard preservation facility and evenings at Cliffside par-3. I have presented history from a trailer with controversial heat and a disputed hydraulic flat and an apartment between nowhere with controversial wifi. On the way, I have chosen some things about traveling and golf and life that I think can help some people return home. And so, with the spirit of memory Tattoo in mind, here are the 11 lessons you need to know.

11 my golf memory Tattoos for 2025

1. You can survive with much less than you think

I find many travelers – and specifically, golf Travelers – fall victim to some kind of travel anxiety: they fear that they will not have the necessary amount of clothes/clubs/gears, and so they overload to cover for all occasions.

If there is a single lesson I have learned from five years of trip to Golf, is that you can survive with FAR Less than you think. Never forget a belt, a toothbrush, socks and interior. Everything else? You can probably cut your packing list in half and survive without noticing anyone.

Also useful? Neutral bases, like white shoes and non -men’s logo shirts and trousers (I love Mason buck For these), which can be mutually exchanged for many different views!

2. Your Golf Baganta weighs more than you think

I can actually do this in my forehead Because it can be the only way to effectively remember my idiot lizard brain that a controlled golf bag is not a license to pack clothing and extra unlimited shoes.

Here is the reality: with your bag, some golf balls and a pair of rivets, your travel bag should weigh about 35 pounds. Most of the airlines have set a strict 50 pound border in the baggage (23 kg if you are traveling through Europe). That’s not a lot of room!

(I’m also tired of the idea of bringing a half set of golf clubs next time just to lose the weight of the luggage but can’t decide if it makes me an unbearable hipster.)

3. Leave space for items gained during your journey

But Jamesyou can be thinking, If your golf bag weighs 35 pounds that means you still have 15 pounds for other things. Yes, this is true, but do you have any idea how easy it is to add 15 -pound shoes, clothes or equipment to your golf bag? (Very easy!)

And do you have any idea how easy it is to do those things inadvertently outstanding Flight, leaving out the very true possibility that you can get souvenirs or retention from your new destination, golf too far? And do you have any ideas on how firm AND lather Is it to find other places to maintain your new luggage weight while you are in the front of a long, permanent luggage line at a people full of people for your return flight? And do you have any idea of how luggage users easily use orange “Heavy” Tag as a license to keep your bag from reaching its target location?

No, you don’t. So be smart and bring your golf bag (which should be an easy bag like the one listed below), three golf balls, an umbrella and two pairs of shoes (a pair of golf rivets, a pair of nice shoes, basic white).

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New colors and vibrant patterns are offered in this bag of long population. He boasts a pocket configuration accumulated for easier access and a large ball pocket between nine completely. A four -way peak has been reconfigured for improved club organization and easier treatment. It also contains an innovative end that improves the removal of the club by leading clubs in the right segment and keeping clubs separate during holding.

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4 you need less clothing than you think

Here is my official packaging list (now and forever) for seven days in the UK for the Open Championship:

That’s it! You don’t need more than this for seven days in Ireland or Scotland. you NOT need more than this. If you do this, it means that your dress cannot lay out and should be replaced.

5 you need global entry

I’m not a goalkeeper but as if I were, Global entry It would be the first thing I would hide from the public. If you get on a plane more than twice a year and choose NO To have global entry, I will forever judge you both mentally weak and gentle sadist – and that is if I feel charities!

6. You should never pack a toilet bag…

A few years ago, I realized that dozens of small objects routinely moving between my toilet bag and the cabinet of medication were making me lose an impressive amount of my wisdom.

Finally, after a little interference, I had enough. I went to Amazon and invested about $ 100 to buy copies from my entire daily toilet collection. The result? I travel everywhere with the conveniences of home creatures (my usual electric teeth brush, column, moisturizer, etc.), and I never worry about leaving something behind.

(If you think I’m crazy about this, please spoil the news (beautiful) on James.colgan@golf.com.)

7. Always travel with two, forms set separately id

I have a friend whom we will call “Connor” (because this is his legal name). Connor lost his wallet on a recent golf trip and learned the difficult path that even in Jeff Bezos’s America can be very difficult/impossible to “rush” the ship a passport or the second form of identification in one place.

Connor was injured by arriving at the airport in Detroit with his lost postport in the mail, and his wallet on the way to New York. He was able to board his flight after a exhaustive TSA’s search aided by an empty evening on DTW, but his life would have been much easier (and his security line to wait much shorter) with a second form of id stuck somewhere in the back. TSA List of Acceptable Id Forms is surprisingly comprehensive And it can save you a real headache in the case of disaster.

8. SPF, brother

Not to sound like your mother, but recently I learned that SPF is the only product approved by the FDA as “anti-aging”. And even if you don’t care about porcelain skin, sunlight will continue to be a beautiful product to mastery as long as golf is mostly enjoyed outside and during the day. Theeller is to get good items in quantities near (but not finished) Liquid TSA border. Below are a couple that I have tried and liked, but everything with enough SPF will do it.

LA ROCHE POSAY Antihelios Facial Suncreen SPF 60

Gold standard.

Sun cream

Excellent comprehensive products, but this invisible gel fits nicely inside the golf bag.

9. Solid weapons

I was surprised to learn from a small part of friends that solid weapons are not seen as the necessary ingredients of golf journey. In my mind, they are just as valuable – and indispensable – like any part of the baggage.

And talking about luggage: I travel religiously with a Victorinox Dufel that I am quite sure is indestructible (except zip) and protect quite sure is indestructible, and a patagonia’s backpack jam FULLY Safe is indestructible. They cost more than your standard rotation bag, travel bags and backpacks, but a headache today is better than some of them tomorrow.

10. Airtegs

Like a defibrillator or an epi pen, an Airtag is an item never hoping to use but should never Leave the house without.

Ok, obviously the shares are lower here. But for $ 25, your mind peace is worth costing.

Air apple

A necessity for any air passenger.

11. Speaking of lost luggage…

Never, never, under no circumstances should you make a flight with a short connection to Heathrow and wait to go out with your luggage.

I have seen many horror stories, I have read many angry tweets and generally experienced many bad vibes from members of the golf industry who have fallen victim to these diseases to talk about this topic with absolute authority. If you see the flight, stay away.