About Golf Collection Network
We built the objective golf resource we couldn’t find.
Most golf trip research starts the same way: a search for the "best courses" in a destination, a scroll through generic rankings, and uncertainty about which recommendations are actually worth trusting.
Golf Collection Network was created to make that process easier and more useful.
GCN is a planning resource for golfers and a connection point for the hotels that host them. For the trip leader, that means one place to understand the courses, accommodations and logistics of a market before booking. For hotel partners, it means reaching golfers while they are actively researching a trip and deciding where to stay.
How a Collection Gets Built: Tapping Into Locals & Experts
Each collection starts with people who know the market: passionate and frequent golfers, longtime residents and, in many cases, golf professionals or others working within the golf industry.
Their insight helps shape the course selections, insider guidance and logistics that tie the trip together.
Collections are built using vetted local insight and firsthand expertise, not generic rankings or AI-generated recommendations.
That approach takes more work, but it is what allows each collection to reflect how golfers actually experience a destination.
No Course Pays to Be Here
Course selections carry no financial relationship.
There is no paid placement, sponsorship or advertising arrangement tied to which golf courses appear in a collection. A course is featured because the people who know that market said it belongs among the public-access courses worth playing there.
(Hotel partners are different. Some hotels featured on Golf Collection Network are paid partners, and those relationships are separate from how golf courses are selected)
Behind Golf Collection Network
Golf Collection Network was founded by Michael Steiner, a longtime travel industry executive and passionate golfer.
Michael spent more than two decades as a Partner at Ovation Travel Group and later served as an EVP at American Express Global Business Travel. His experience across travel and hospitality shapes GCN's focus on the full golf trip, from courses and accommodations to how travelers actually plan and book.
