Golf Travel Insurance Travel insurance built for golf trips, holidays and competitions
If golf is one of the main reasons you’re travelling, it makes sense to choose travel insurance designed with your sport in mind.
Yellow Jersey Golf Travel Insurance combines comprehensive travel insurance with specialist sports cover for golfers travelling abroad — whether you’re heading away for a golf holiday, an organised tour, a coaching trip or an amateur competition.
Unlike standalone golf insurance, this is travel insurance for your trip, covering the travel risks you’d expect alongside additional protection designed for people travelling to play sport.
Travel for the golf. Insure the whole trip.
A golf trip isn’t just about your clubs.
It’s the flights, accommodation, organised golf, competition fees and everything else you’ve arranged around getting onto the course.
Yellow Jersey combines comprehensive travel insurance with specialist sports cover, giving you one policy designed around the fact that golf is part of the reason you’re travelling in the first place.
Ask yourself two questions about your current travel insurance –
What happens if something disrupts the golf I’ve travelled to play?
e.g. your clubs don’t arrive, or your course is officially closed
Does it cover golf when playing is a main purpose of my trip?
e.g. golf tour or competition
Why choose specialist Golf Travel Insurance?
Golf can be included in some standard travel insurance policies or offered as an optional add-on. So why choose specialist sports travel insurance?
Because a golf trip can involve considerably more than taking your clubs on a normal holiday.
You may have paid for flights, accommodation, organised golf, competition entry and equipment. You might be travelling specifically to play rather than simply fitting a round into a family holiday.
Yellow Jersey Sports Travel Insurance is designed around that distinction.
You get comprehensive travel insurance covering things such as emergency medical expenses, cancellation and travel disruption, combined with sports-specific benefits designed for trips where taking part matters.
Golf holidays
From a long weekend in Portugal to a week playing courses in Spain, cover your trip as well as your golf.
Golf tours
Travelling with friends, your golf society or an organised group? Our cover is designed for trips built around taking part in sport.
Golf competitions & tournaments
Golf is covered as an amateur sporting activity, making the policy suitable for golfers travelling to take part in organised amateur competitions and events.
Golf coaching & training trips
Heading overseas for a golf academy, coaching break or training trip? Your sport can be covered as part of your travel insurance rather than treated as an incidental holiday activity.
Golf Travel Insurance vs standard travel insurance
You don’t necessarily need specialist insurance simply because you’re going to play a round of golf on holiday.
But if golf is an important reason for the trip, it’s worth looking closely at what your existing travel insurance actually covers.
Yellow Jersey Golf Travel Insurance is part of our specialist Sports Travel Insurance product and is designed for people travelling to take part in sport.
Your trip
Cover can include cancellation or curtailment, delayed departure, trip abandonment, missed departure and missed connections, subject to the terms and limits of your policy.
Your health
Emergency medical expenses and repatriation are covered up to £10 million, including eligible incidents while taking part in your insured sporting activity.
Your golf equipment
Owned or formally hired sports equipment is covered up to £500 as standard, with optional equipment upgrades available up to £5,000.
Emergency equipment hire
If eligible circumstances leave you without the sports equipment you need during your trip, the policy includes cover towards emergency sports equipment hire.
Sports Activity Interruption
If your booked sporting activity cannot take place because of an official closure or cancellation, unsafe environmental conditions resulting in an official suspension, or relevant government or local-authority restrictions, Sports Activity Interruption cover can provide up to £500, subject to the policy terms.
Competition and event fees
The policy includes cover for eligible non-refundable organised amateur sporting event fees, subject to the circumstances and conditions set out in the policy wording.
That’s the difference: travel insurance that understands you’re not only going away — you’re going away to play.
Simple cover, built around how golf trips actually work.
FLEXIBLE COVER OPTIONS
Sports trips rarely fit neatly into standard travel insurance. That’s why our policies include flexible options for couples, families and young athletes.
Spectator-only cover
Family members travelling to support an athlete don’t need to pay for sports participation cover they won’t use.
Accompanied minors
Parents can arrange cover for accompanied minors without needing to insure themselves on the same policy, provided the child is travelling with a responsible adult.
Couples & families
Reduced pricing for additional travellers because more people on one policy doesn’t automatically mean double the risk.
Annual or Short Term
A Travel lots, pay less
Committing to an annual policy can often work out better value than buying cover for each trip, while still keeping you protected for every overseas golf competition or training camp abroad.
Plus, our policies can cover multiple sports, so you could be set for your summer golf tour and still have cover ready for your winter skiing trip; no last-minute insurance scramble required.
B No commitment
Not travelling all the time, or not ready to sign up for a full year? No worries. Our short-term, single-trip policies might cost a little more per trip, but they give you all the flexibility you need and the same handy suite of covers as our annual travellers.
Golf Travel Insurance Cover summary
Travel Insurance benefits | Limit |
| Emergency Medical Expenses | £10,000,000 |
| Emergency Repatriation | £10,000,000 |
| Trip Cancellation | £2,500 to £10,000 |
| Dental Treatment | £250 |
| Hospital Benefit | £500 |
| Baggage | £2,500 |
| Travel Documents | £500 |
| Delayed Baggage | £250 |
| Personal Money | £500 |
| Departure Delay | £250 |
| Holiday Abandonment | £2,500 to £10,000 |
| Missed Departure | £1,000 |
| Missed Connections | £1,000 |
| Personal Accident | £20,000 |
| Death Benefit | £10,000 |
| Personal Liability | £2,000,000 |
| Car Hire Excess Protection (optional) | £5,000 |
Sports covers | Limit |
| Owned or Hired Sports Equipment | £500 |
| Sports Equipment Upgrade (optional) | £1,000–£5,000 |
| Sports Equipment Emergency Hire | £250 |
| Sports Equipment Repatriation | £250 |
| Sports Activity Interruption | £500 |
| Race/Event Entry Fees | £750 |
| Gadget Cover | £2,000 |
golf travel insurance FAQ section
We can hopefully answer all your questions related to our golf travel insurance. If you can’t find the answer you are looking for after looking through the FAQs, you can call us Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. We typically answer the phone in under 30 seconds.
Golf travel insurance is travel insurance for a trip where you intend to play golf.
Yellow Jersey’s cover isn’t a standalone year-round golf insurance policy. It is comprehensive travel insurance with additional sports-specific protection, designed for people travelling to take part in golf and other insured sporting activities.
That means you’re protecting the wider trip as well as having cover relevant to taking part in your sport.
Yes.
Standalone golf insurance is typically designed primarily around playing golf and may provide year-round protection for things such as golf equipment or other golf-specific risks.
Yellow Jersey Golf Travel Insurance is travel insurance.
It is designed to protect eligible trips where you’re travelling to play golf, combining benefits such as emergency medical expenses, cancellation and travel disruption with sports equipment and other sports-specific cover.
If you’re simply looking to insure your golf clubs throughout the year when you’re not travelling, this isn’t designed as a replacement for standalone golf insurance.
Some standard travel insurance policies cover recreational golf, while others may require an additional golf or sports extension.
The important thing is to check exactly what is covered, particularly if golf is a main reason for your trip rather than something you might happen to do while you’re away.
Yellow Jersey’s Sports Travel Insurance has been designed specifically for people travelling to take part in sport.
Yes, provided golf is included in the cover shown on your policy schedule and you meet the policy terms and conditions.
That could include anything from a weekend golf break to a longer holiday where playing golf is a significant part of your trip.
Golf is an acceptable amateur sporting activity under Yellow Jersey Sports Travel Insurance.
The policy can therefore cover you while taking part in eligible amateur golf activities and competitions, subject to the Activity Pack, policy schedule and policy terms and conditions.
The policy also provides up to £750 towards eligible organised amateur sporting event fees in the circumstances covered by the policy.
Sports equipment is covered up to £500 as standard, with optional upgrades available from £1,000 to £5,000 depending on the cover selected.
The policy can cover eligible loss, theft or damage to sports equipment that you own or equipment formally hired for your trip.
Terms, exclusions and depreciation apply, so check the policy wording and your policy schedule for full details.
The policy includes a sports equipment emergency hire benefit.
If the circumstances meet the policy conditions, this can contribute towards the cost of temporarily hiring the sports equipment you need so that a baggage problem doesn’t necessarily mean missing your golf altogether.
Yellow Jersey includes Sports Activity Interruption cover of up to £500.
This can apply when a booked sporting activity is unavailable for at least 12 consecutive hours because of an official closure or cancellation, unsafe environmental conditions resulting in an official suspension, or government or local-authority restrictions directly preventing the activity from taking place.
You’ll need independent written or digital confirmation from the responsible operator or authority, and the full policy terms and exclusions apply.
Eligible emergency medical expenses are covered up to £10 million under the policy, including eligible injuries suffered while taking part in an insured sporting activity.
Emergency repatriation and other medical benefits are also included, subject to the policy terms and conditions.
Yes.
Yellow Jersey offers single-trip Sports Travel Insurance, so you can arrange cover specifically for your golf trip rather than buying an annual policy.
Yes. You can choose annual Sports Travel Insurance if you take several trips during the year.
It isn’t a standalone annual golf policy. It is annual multi-trip travel insurance, and it can cover golf alongside other sports and activities you’ve selected under the policy.
This can be particularly useful if golf isn’t the only reason you travel for sport.
Yes.
Yellow Jersey Sports Travel Insurance can cover more than 500 sports and activities.
So if you play golf but also travel to ski, hike, run, dive or take part in another insured activity, you may be able to include those activities within the same Sports Travel policy, subject to the appropriate Activity Pack and policy terms.
