Guest Stories

A note from Scott

I started Ascot Tours in 1996, and since then we have looked after golfers and safari guests all over Africa. Hundreds of them have flown private charter with us across Southern and East Africa, into the bush strips, between the golf courses, over the Falls. Ascot Private is built on those journeys and on what those guests taught us.

I read every note a guest sends us. The good ones go on this page, with their permission.

— Scott Edkins, Founder

From the trade and the press

• ATTA, September 2026. Ascot Tours marks 30 years in South African golf tourism: the African Travel and Tourism Association on our thirtieth birthday, celebrated with a New Zealand versus South Africa match at De Zalze in Stellenbosch.
• Recommend magazine. South Africa fam with Ascot Tours: an 11-day trip we hosted for travel advisors in late 2024, with golf at Fancourt, safari and the Cape Winelands.

Recognised by the World Golf Awards

Ascot Tours, the company behind Ascot Private, has been named Africa's Best Golf Tour Operator at the World Golf Awards in 2016, 2017, 2021, 2024 and 2026, and Kenya's Best Inbound Golf Tour Operator in 2025. See all our awards.

Travelled with us?

If you have been out with Ascot Tours or Ascot Private, I would like to hear how it went. Write to me at scott@ascotprivate.com and tell me what stayed with you.