Booking with St. Andrews Luxury Golf means you'll experience the finest links golf, like the Old Course. (St. Andrews Luxury Tours)

St. Andrews Luxury Golf: Packaging nothing but the finest in links golf vacations

You never know what the skies will bring when you're on the links golf courses of Scotland and Ireland.

That uncertainty, however, shouldn't be the same with your once-in-a-lifetime golf-trip itinerary. That's where St. Andrews Luxury Golf comes in.

Boasting nearly 20 years of experience, St. Andrews Luxury Golf specializes in providing golf groups large and small the best the British Isles has to offer, from its legendary courses to the finest hotels, restaurants, fishing and more. Its familiarity with each regions' courses and properties mean little is left to chance.

Book a tour at StAndrewsLuxuryGolf.com, and you're booking with confidence that you'll experience nothing but the finest in golf and accommodations.

Though based in and specializing in St. Andrews golf tours, St. Andrews Luxury Golf provides golf packages throughout Scotland, Ireland and England - wherever great golf is played. Whether you're enjoying the home of golf in St. Andrews, the links of Ireland or the British Open courses of England, the common theme is the worries will be left to St. Andrews Luxury Golf.

"It's service beyond your expectations," said Neil Robertson, director of St. Andrews Luxury Golf with nearly 20 years of experience himself. "For golfers from the United States and Canada, it's an investment that should become the trip of a lifetime."

St. Andrews Luxury Golf's location in St. Andrews also gives it unparalleled knowledge of golf's hallowed grounds. Guaranteed tee times at the Old Course are just the tip of the iceberg. The group also knows the ins and outs of every hotel, pub and restaurant. They've likely found themselves in every bunker of the Old Course.

This knowledge ensures you'll feel like a local and not a tourist.

It's an exciting time to head to Scotland in particular. Not only will golfers have guaranteed tee times to the classic links like the Old Course, Turnberry, Royal Dornoch, Royal Troon and Muirfield but to the country's new breed as well.

In 2008, Scotland welcomes three highly anticipated golf courses: The Castle Course at St. Andrews, Machrihanish Dunes next door to its more famous links in the Mull of Kintyre, and Castle Stuart in the Highlands, in the neighborhood of Nairn and Royal Dornoch. St. Andrews Luxury Golf has the skinny on how each can be incorporated into your tour of the country's classic gems.

There are some very popular tours, like the courses in Ireland's Southwest or Scotland's Highlands, but the possibilities are endless and are custom built. If you've ever dreamed of playing all the courses of the British Open, you could opt for the mother load: the 17-day British Open Tour, featuring 14 courses from the British Open rota, from Prestwick to the Old Course.

Impossible you ask? St. Andrews Luxury Golf knows how to make it happen.

It shouldn't just be about the golf, either. That's just part of the reason groups travel across oceans to experience the British Isles, which is why there are plenty of options off the course, too, from Scottish whisky tastings to castle tours. St. Andrews Luxury Golf also partners with Alba Game Fishing, a world-class luxury fishing company that specializes in expeditions in Scotland.

Bringing spouses along on a golf trip has become increasingly popular, something Robertson and the company cater to. On the luxury coach, the driver will happily drop the men off at a pub and take the women to a cashmere factory down the road.

Robertson and his staff have been in the tour-operating business for years, so leaving the details up to them ensure you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the ride.

There are a lot of ways to go with your once-in-a-lifetime golf tour, but the only way to start is with St. Andrews Luxury Golf.

For package and booking information, visit www.StAndrewsLuxuryGolf.com.

July 4, 2008