Bryan Rust is no stranger to the golf trip tradition. Growing up, his family vacations were centered around playing desirable golf courses, including California\u2019s Pebble Beach and Wisconsin\u2019s Whistling Straits.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s definitely a sport that our family has bonded over for years, and it’s something you can play at any level for as long as you\u2019re alive, basically,\u201d Rust said. \u201cSo, it’s definitely super fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s something his work family has bonded over as well, as the players organize golf trips after the season ends, whenever that may be.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not even thought about until we’re done, and then it comes together in about 24 hours,\u201d Rust said. \u201cSome guys have various connections one way or another, through friends, through them just being who they are, whatever it is. And we piece together a trip in a very short amount of time, and we have fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The itinerary usually consists of two rounds of golf per day, and then some \u201cextracurriculars,\u201d as Rust put it. \u201cSome drinks and some laughs.\u201d Crossing paths with pro golfers Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Smylie Kaufman and their wives in Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina, and having a prank war straight out of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,\u00a0was a prime example<\/a>. Rust said last year\u2019s trip, also to South Carolina, at Kiawah Island Golf Resort near Charleston, was another standout.<\/p>\n However, Rust did not make this year\u2019s trip to The Keep at\u00a0McLemore Resort in Rising Fawn, Georgia. Sports Illustrated named it the Best New Course (Overall) for 2025, with it getting listed at No. 25 in Golfweek\u2019s Top 200 Resort Golf Courses in America.<\/p>\n The players who were able to swing it left on Sunday, May 3, and returned on Tuesday, May 5, spreading out over a few villas.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was my first golf trip ever. I was the worst golfer there, for sure,\u201d Connor Dewar said with a laugh. \u201cI’ve had shoulder surgery in the past, I just haven’t played as much as I should play. But I was like, I’m going to go check this out.\u201d<\/p>\n Dewar said that apart from him, most of the guys had their good days. But Rickard Rakell was the most consistent.<\/p>\n \u201cRicky was really, really good,\u201d Dewar said. \u201cReally good. He was probably the best golfer on that trip, over the course of the three days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Rust is no stranger to the golf trip tradition. Growing up, his family vacations were centered around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-717500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}