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GIR Club Experience

Compete.
Then unwind
in style.

A GIR Club tournament has two halves and both of them are what makes the retreat so special. Mornings belong to the competition — you and your partner against the field. Afternoons belong to you: the spa, the pool, or a nap in your room. But don't forget to join us for dinner!

A golfer playing a coastal hole with the sea and islands behind.

The tournament

Run by the GIR Club team, start to finish. You arrive with your clubs and a handicap; everything on the schedule is handled by us.

The format

Your team, against the field

Every GIR Club tournament is played in teams of two. You and your partner post a team score in every round, and you play together for the whole tournament. The scoring format — best ball, scramble or alternate shot — is set per tournament and published with the registration announcement.

Your partner

Bring her, or let us find her

Register as a pair if you already have someone. If you don't, register on your own and we'll match you before you get here — on handicap and on what you tell us about how you like to play. Coming on your own is a completely normal way to enter, and the pairing is made with care.

Flights

Teams play against teams in their own flight

Teams are flighted by combined handicap once registration closes, so a pair breaking 90 and a pair breaking 110 are both genuinely in contention — in their own flight, for their own prizes.

The draw

You meet new women every round

Your team goes out alongside another team, and the draw is posted the night before at the cocktail hour. Teams rotate each round, so by the final day you've played with women across the field.

Scoring

A live leaderboard

Team scores updated as cards come in. It's posted in the clubhouse and on your phone, which is how the back nine gets tense and your competitive spirit comes out.

Prizes

Lots of ways to win

Flight winners, the overall team title, closest to the pin, long drive and the skins pot — plus points towards the GIR Club Cup. The trophy photo is non-negotiable.

The shape
of a tournament

Exact schedules are published with each tournament. This is the rhythm every one of them follows.

Arrival

Meet your partner

Bags to the room, clubs to the bag drop, an optional practice round together, and welcome cocktails where the round one draw goes up.

Competition days

Morning tee times

Morning stretch and a quick clinic with the golf pro. Teams head out to tee off. Lunch on the course. Done by early afternoon so you can explore the resort.

Afternoons

Spa, pool, or a nap

Treatments booked ahead through the GIR Club website, a lounger with your name on it, or a nap in luxury so you are refreshed for the evening activities.

Group nights

Join us at the table

Group dinners, entertainment, and of course a GIR-ita (or two!).

A resort's pools set among palms, with the ocean beyond.

We choose the
resort for the
whole trip

A great course attached to a disappointing hotel makes for a long week. We pick properties where the course is worth the tournament and the resort is worth the stay — the rooms, the spa, the pool with a lazy river, the shopping, and of course the food you'll remember for months.

The whole field stays on property. That is deliberate. It's how camaraderie is created and the way lifelong friendships start.

  • The spa

    Treatment time is blocked into the week and booked before you arrive, if you choose that option.

  • Cocktails after every round

    The cocktails at each resort are unique and well-made. And of course you must try my signature "GIR-ita"!

  • Dinners you don't have to organize

    Reservations and the menu are handled. You show up.

The part everybody
expects to love
just as much as the competition

You arrive for the tournament. You return for the experience.

Women gathered along a long table set for dinner outdoors.
Welcome cocktails, the night before round one.
An outdoor table laid with breakfast, fruit and glasses of sparkling wine.
Group dinners, a time to get to know each other and share stories from the day's round.
Hot stones laid along a woman's back during a spa treatment.
Afternoons at the spa.
A gold trophy cup waiting on the prize table.
Prizes by flight on the closing night.
A woman driving from the tee, club at the top of her follow-through.
And then you do it again at the next tournament.

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