Our 29th annual Greens of Distinction Awards special section recognizes the leaders who have demonstrated their excellence in designing and maintaining golf resorts that planners can count on.

While late night ‘wining and dining’ is still a prevalent relationship-building tradition, more business professionals are hitting the greens — making golf and spa resorts a wonderful go-to option for today’s meetings and events.

There are many reasons resorts with golf courses and spas provide an excellent base for corporate meetings and events.

A golf and spa resort can offer such a variety of activities, that there’s no need for attendees to go elsewhere.

Many articles have been written about the value of golf as a business tool. Certainly it provides several hours of networking between shots and facilitates face time between people in different departments or at different levels within a company.

Golf and spa resorts are expert hosts for corporate tournaments, but they meet the needs of planners and attendees in many other ways.

Meetings at golf and spa resorts combine achieving corporate business goals with time for employees to play and relax.

Some of the most successful corporate meetings mix business and pleasure in ways that are actually good for business, and great golf & spa resorts enable planners to achieve that effect.

In corporate America, golf events have always been a “safe bet.”

Golf and spa resorts continue to upgrade and refresh their unique combination of world-class championship golf courses, specialty spas, grand guest rooms and ample meeting space.