You've checked the trip calendar and Connecting: Solo Travel News to no avail. You even checked your local golf clubs for special single-friendly events or tours sponsored by the club. Nothing.
Before you decide you've been singled out of a golf holiday this year, have you considered taking a fan trip? A fan trip is when you create a holiday around a favorite special community event, such as a golf tournament, for example.
Most large scale events – festivals, tournaments, extravaganzas – only succeed because thousands of volunteers assist with crowd control, office work, as ticket takers, and go-fers. In return for helping out, volunteers get certain privileges such as reduced or free entrance and sometimes they are invited to VIP socials and ceremonies.
Volunteering is a fine way to meet like-minded friends. As a participant in the excitement, loneliness is a non-issue. Combine volunteer hours with off-hours sightseeing, dining around, maybe get in on pick-up golf games at regional clubs – and presto! You have a full, varied, and satisfying vacation.
With ingenuity and creativity you might just give yourself the best holiday you ever had. And the beauty of it is that you can probably do it close to home or half way round the world, depending on what the budget allows.
Obviously the closer you live to the event, the easier it is to be a volunteer, but volunteering wherever your heart desires is not out of the question. The Masters? Well, no harm in trying.
Start by picking a town, city, golf course, or tournament you'd like to visit. Then set about finding out what likely events are scheduled, when and/or where, and who's in charge of volunteers.