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An Asian golf outing might set some sort of new record. By: Roxanne Downer If you're bored with the links at St. Andrews and Pebble is passé, one California-based company thinks it has the golf vacation for you. This past spring, food-and-wine events impresarios Angel's Share began offering a private jet golf vacation through Asia that may just be the most luxe -- and priciest -- golf excursion of your life. How pricey, you ask? How's an even $1.3 million sound?
Designed for a group of four (although more can be added for an additional, ahem, cost), the Asian golf outing begins aboard a luxuriously appointed Gulfstream G550. The private plane — yours for the two-week-long trip — first touches down in Bali, continues to Malaysia and wraps up in Hong Kong. The itinerary is, of course, fully customizable. "It's really a once-in-a-lifetime kind of trip," says Mark Russo, the former brand ambassador for McCallan who founded Angel's Share in 2001. "We're offering experiences you just can't get on your own." Exper iences like, for instance, a stay aboard a 172-foot yacht originally built for the Emir of Bahrain as it floats in the Andaman Sea. Or an unforgettable day on the greens at the Nirwana Bali Golf Club, followed by dinner with Bali's Prince Rai Girigunadhi at the Royal Palace, capped off with a helicopter trip over emerald rice terraces to a remote Balinese village. Those types of experiences.
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