We didn’t set out to start a tour company. We set out to book a tour.
The idea was simple: take a group of Australian golfers to France, play some world-class courses, and visit the places where Australians fought on the Western Front. Golf by day, heritage in between. Two things that the same group of people care deeply about.
So we started searching. Premium golf tours to France? Plenty. PerryGolf, Premier Golf, IMG Prestige — all excellent, all expensive, all focused exclusively on golf. Not a single memorial stop.
Western Front battlefield tours? Also plenty. Mat McLachlan, Blue-Roads, Entire Travel — thorough, well-organised, and completely golf-free.
The combined product? It didn’t exist. We contacted operators. We searched aggregators. We asked travel agents. Nothing.
So we built it.
Fairways & Frontlines is a 14-day tour through France, Belgium, and Switzerland with six championship golf rounds and more than ten Australian memorial sites. The route is specifically designed so that the two themes weave together naturally:
You play Le Golf National (2018 Ryder Cup) outside Paris, then head north to Ypres where you attend the Menin Gate ceremony and play Palingbeek — a course built on a WWI battlefield. You visit six Australian memorial sites across the Somme, then play a parkland course at Amiens. You explore Verdun’s battlefields, then tee off at a tri-border championship course. You finish with three nights at a palace on Lake Geneva, playing the Evian Championship course and the European Masters venue in the Swiss Alps.
The farewell dinner is at a Michelin-starred restaurant on the Eiffel Tower. Because if you’re going to do this, do it properly.
14 places. September 2026. Hosted by Pat Carmody and Michael Court.