The 30A Golf & Gulf Getaway
Morning on the fairway. Afternoon on the sand.
Championship golf 15 minutes from your front door, and the most beautiful beach in Florida waiting when the round’s over. Rent the whole house, load the clubs, and let the long weekend do its thing — the foursome plays while everyone else claims a beach chair.
✓ 20% off your stay with code GOLF20
✓ 8 public courses within 30 minutes
✓ 99 beach homes & condos on the quiet west end
The Golf Getaway Deal
Book a Thursday–Sunday golf trip with code GOLF20 and take 20% off your stay. Split four ways, that’s a round at the Raven paid for — each — and our team will point you to the right tee sheets.
Promo Code
GOLF20
20% off your golf getaway stay
15 min
to your first tee time at Sandestin’s four courses
Steps
from the door to sugar-white sand and emerald water
Since 1958
family-owned & local — a real person answers the phone
The Golf
Three Rounds Worth Building a Weekend Around
Eight public courses sit within thirty minutes of your rental — no memberships, no resort-stay requirements, online tee times at every one. These three are where we’d point a visiting foursome first. Book direct with each course; we’ll help you time it around your stay.
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The Headliner: Raven Golf Club
The one to play if you play just one. A Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that hosted the Champions Tour, carved through pines and wetlands with an island-green par 3 that will be the group text photo. Fifteen minutes from the house.
$109–$159 · public books 14 days out · ★ 4.0 Golf Digest
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The Splurge: Kelly Plantation
Fred Couples’ bayside beauty in Destin — 4.4 stars across 2,100+ GolfPass reviews, with 91%% of golfers recommending it. Country-club conditions, wide open to visitors. The Saturday-morning round you dress up for.
From ~$129 · ~25 minutes · book early, visitors fill it fast
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The Value Play: Emerald Bay Twilight
A Bob Cupp design along the bay in Destin with the best deal on the coast: $59 after 2 p.m. Play the morning on the beach, tee off in the golden light, and be back for a late dinner. The second-round special.
$59 twilight (~$119 standard) · ~20 minutes
We put together the full guide to every course near 30A your whole group can play — all eight, with real rates, drive times, ratings and direct tee-time links.
Eighteen in the morning. Toes in the sand by two.
That’s the whole idea. Book the house, and we’ll point you to the right tee sheets for the rest of it.
Your Home Base
Houses Built for a Golf Trip
A golf weekend needs bedrooms that don’t make anyone draw straws, a kitchen big enough for the post-round debrief, and the beach close enough that nobody waits on the foursome. Here are three of our homes that handle it well — and there are plenty more where these came from.
Sleeps 12–14 • 5 King Suites
New Canal Lighthouse
Old Florida Beach (gated) • 5 BR / 5.5 BA • Community pool
👑 Five king suites · 🍳 Island seats 15 · 🏖 Private beach access
The buddies-trip headquarters: five king suites means nobody draws the short straw, and the kitchen island seats fifteen for the nineteenth-hole debrief. Two living areas, so the dawn-patrol foursome doesn’t wake the beach crew.
Rooftop Deck • Sleeps 9
The Coastal Collective
Dune Allen Beach • 4 BR + loft / 3.5 BA • Community pool
⛳ 15 min to Sandestin’s 4 courses · 🌅 Rooftop sunset views · 🚴 Steps to Timpoochee Trail
Closest to the courses — and the rooftop deck is the best nineteenth hole on 30A. Three stories of room to spread out, minutes from Gulf Place and Stinky’s Fish Camp, with the west end’s quietest beaches down the street.
Gulf Front • Beach Service
Whispering Sands #301
Dune Allen Beach • 3 BR / Sleeps 7 • Top floor, gulf front
⛳ 15 min to Sandestin · 🏖 Private boardwalk · ☕ Gulf-view balcony
The couples-trip pick: coffee above the dunes before the round, and chairs and an umbrella already set up on the sand when you’re back (beach service included, March–October). Everything on one quiet top floor.
These are a few of our homes with room for a golf crew — browse all 99 homes & condos, or call 850.267.2121 and we’ll pull the full list of what’s open for your dates.
How It Goes
How a Golf Weekend Actually Goes
Thursday to Sunday, the way it usually shapes up. Two rounds, a lot of beach, and nobody argues about dinner.
Thursday
Thursday, late afternoon
Everybody gets in
Clubs in the garage, groceries on the counter, tee times confirmed for the morning. Go stand on the porch and smell the salt.
Thursday evening
Dinner, no decisions
Walk over to Gulf Place or Stinky’s Fish Camp. Early night — the first tee time is the good one.
Friday
Friday, 8:10 am
First tee at the Raven
Fifteen minutes up the road. Champions Tour pedigree, the island-green par 3, and morning light through the pines.
Friday, 2:00 pm
Back for the beach shift
The crew’s been on the sand all morning. Cannonball into the pool, then claim your chair — at homes with beach service it’s already set up.
Saturday
Saturday morning
Round two — the splurge
Kelly Plantation along the bay — the most-loved round in Destin, and the one you dress up for. Carts loaded by eight.
Saturday, golden hour
The twilight nine (optional, inevitable)
Somebody says “Emerald Bay is $59 after two.” Somebody else is already getting his shoes.
Saturday evening
Grill night & the replay
Burgers on, sun going down, and the same three shots retold from the rooftop deck until they’re all 20 yards longer.
Sunday
Sunday morning
One more walk, one more putt
Coffee on the balcony, a barefoot mile on the sand, and somebody floating next year’s dates before the cars are packed.
When the Round’s Over
The Best 19th Hole in Florida Is a Beach
You could do a golf trip anywhere. You do it on the west end of 30A because when the scorecard’s signed, sugar-white quartz sand and actually-emerald water are waiting ten minutes away — and there’s nobody on it.
- 🌊 3 out of 4 of our homes include private or deeded beach access — no circling for a public lot after the round.
- 🌊 Many rentals include seasonal beach service — chairs and umbrella set up and waiting, March through October.
- 🌊 Rare coastal dune lakes, the Timpoochee bike trail, and no high-rises on our stretch of coast.
- 🌊 Non-golfers have the best weekend of all — beach all morning, pool all afternoon, everyone back at one table for dinner.
The Math
It’s Closer Than the Group Chat Thinks
Everyone under one roof beats four hotel rooms and a lobby bar. You get a garage for the clubs, a kitchen, a grill, and a porch for the replay — which is the difference between a golf trip and a great one.
Add code GOLF20 to a Thursday–Sunday stay and 20% comes off the house — split four ways, that’s real money back toward greens fees.
And nobody has to fly with a travel bag. Everybody drives, the clubs ride in the trunk, and the drive is the beginning of the trip.
DRIVE TIME TO 30 A
Birmingham, AL: ~ 4hrs
New Orleans, LA: ~ 4hrs
Atlanta, GA: ~ 5hrs
Nashville, TN: ~ 6.5hrs
Let’s tee it up
20% Off Your Golf Getaway
Book a Thursday–Sunday stay with code GOLF20. Tell us how many are playing and who’s beaching, and our team — a real person, here since 1958 — will match you with the right house and point you to the right tee sheets.
Rather talk it through? Call 850.267.2121
