PGA Tour Experience in Innisbrook
Jeff Kaplan has been running this annual trip for 18 years. Innisbrook's Copperhead Course, a championship belt called 'Live Until You Die,' and a points system the group still argues about — this is what a dialed-in buddies trip looks like.
- Guest
- Jeff Kaplan
- Destination
- Innisbrook Resort, Palm Harbor, Florida
- Location
- FL
The Setup
Jeff has been organizing the same group’s golf trip for 18 years. This year they went back to Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida — home of the Copperhead Course, where the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship gets played. He joins the pod to break down how the crew runs it.
The Format
It’s a full playbook: a championship belt called “Live Until You Die,” a unique point scoring system, live scoring throughout the trip, and rotating team formats that keep every round in play. We get into how it all fits together, and what they’ve added vs. cut over almost two decades.
The Hot Takes
- Copperhead vs. the rest of the Innisbrook stack
- How they vet new members into a group that’s been together this long
- Live scoring: gimmick or essential?
- Why the belt is the thing that actually drives the trip
The Run-It-Back
When a trip has run 18 years deep, “run it back” stops being a question. Jeff explains what keeps it sticky — and what almost broke it along the way.