We are Steinn and Hildur, a husband and wife in our fifties. Steinn plays off 15, Hildur off 21, and between us we have played 82 golf courses in five countries.

We are not professionals and we have never pretended to be. That is the whole point. Almost every golf review you can find is written by somebody who plays better than you do, at a course somebody else paid for.

We started Beyond 50 because mainstream golf media treats anyone over 45 like they should be sitting down with a quiet cup of tea. We are not interested in sitting down.

We play golf at midnight in Iceland because the sun never sets, and we refuse to stop just because the clock says bedtime.

What we make

Honest golf course reviews, hotel and resort reviews, cruise reviews and trip planning videos, for couples over 50 working out where to go next.

Every review carries the numbers you actually need. The green fee and the year we paid it. The buggy cost. The length and the slope. Whether the beach is really as close as the website says.

We paid for most of it ourselves. When we did not, we tell you.

Some courses make us swear. Some make us cry at how beautiful the 17th green is at sunset. Most fall somewhere in between. We tell the truth about all of them.

Where we have played

Iceland, 35 courses. There are 65 golf courses in Iceland. We have played more than half of them, from Keilir and Brautarholt near Reykjavík out to Vestmannaeyjar, Húsavík, Siglufjörður, Patreksfjörður and Sauðárkrókur. We do not know of anybody else reviewing Icelandic golf in English for a foreign audience.

Spain, 33 courses. Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Cádiz, Sotogrande and Catalonia. Including both La Hacienda Alcaidesa layouts, both San Roque courses, Finca Cortesín, Las Colinas, Lo Romero, Las Ramblas, Torrequebrada, Camiral and Novo Sancti Petri.

United States, 11 courses. From Celebration and Rio Pinar to Rancho San Joaquin, Talega, Tijeras Creek, Lake of Isles and The New England Country Club.

Denmark, 2 courses. The Scandinavian and Royal Copenhagen.

Scotland, 1 course. Duddingston, Edinburgh.

Hildur

Ask Hildur what the best part of golf is and she does not talk about scoring.

"Skemmtilegast er að vera í fallegu umhverfi í góðu veðri."

The most fun is being somewhere beautiful in good weather.

Ask her what is hardest and the answer is one word. “Skógarvellir”. Forest courses.

There is a reason for that, and it explains half of what we film. Iceland has almost no trees. We both learned golf on open ground, in wind, with nothing to hit but the horizon. Put us on a tight tree lined parkland course and we find out very quickly what kind of golfers we are. It is why a single round at The Scandinavian in Denmark(check out the video here) cost us nineteen golf balls, and why we said so.

Ask her what ruins a round and she has two answers, both of them fair.

"Leiðinlegast og mest pirrandi, að lenda í of mikið af bönkerum og ef maður lendir í bið á vellinum."

Too many bunkers, and waiting on the course.

Which is awkward, because Steinn's nickname is Captain Bunker and he has earned it on three continents.

So when the sand is a real part of playing a course we say so. Lo Romero(check out the video here) has 56 bunkers. One hole at San Roque New (check out the video here) has ten of them in play. And we nearly always tell you how the round flowed, because a beautiful course you spend four and a half hours standing still on is not a good day out.

Who we make it for

Couples in their fifties and sixties. Average age 55, mostly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Scandinavia and Canada.

They are planning their next golf trip together, and often their next move to the Spanish coast. They feel invisible in mainstream golf media and want to be shown the life they still want to live, not instructed.

Real couples watch these videos and book real trips. We have heard from viewers in Florida, Surrey, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Toronto who planned a Spain trip around courses we reviewed.

The manifesto

We wear colourful clothes on every course we play. Pink trousers, lime shirts, yellow caps. This is not a styling choice. It is a manifesto, and the manifesto says:

You do not stop having fun because you get old. You get old because you stopped having fun.

Why Iceland matters

We come from a place where the summer sun does not set and the winter sun does not rise. We have learned that you make your own light.

We make ours at midnight, on golf courses, in colourful clothes, with two cameras and a drone.

How we pay for it, and what that means for you

Most of our trips come out of our own pockets. Some are hosted or discounted by a hotel, a resort or a brand.

When that happens, we say so. On the film, in the description, and in the article.

We do not sell positive reviews. If something is not good we say so, which is the only reason anybody believes us when we say something is good.

We have worked with Hotel Senator Banús, La Hacienda, Torrequebrada, Barceló Montecastillo, Shot Scope and Wiber.

Frequently asked questions

Who runs Beyond 50?
Steinn Kári Ragnarsson and Hildur Íris Helgadóttir, a husband and wife in their fifties from Reykjavík, Iceland. We founded Beyond 50 to make the couples golf travel content we wished existed when we started planning our own trips.

What handicap do you play off?
Steinn plays off 15 and Hildur off 21. We are club golfers, not professionals, and we review courses from exactly that point of view. When we say a course punishes a bad tee shot, we mean it punished ours.

How many golf courses have you played?
82 in five countries. Iceland 35, Spain 33, the United States 11, Denmark 2 and Scotland 1.

Have you really played half the golf courses in Iceland?
Yes. Iceland has 65 golf courses and we have played 35 of them, from Reykjavík out to the Westman Islands, Húsavík, Siglufjörður, Patreksfjörður and Sauðárkrókur.

What kind of golf course do you find hardest?
Forest courses. Tree lined parkland is the hardest thing for an Icelandic golfer, because Iceland has almost no trees and we both learned the game on open ground in wind. One round at The Scandinavian in Denmark cost us nineteen golf balls. If you are coming from a links or a treeless course, expect the same and pack accordingly.

What does Hildur like most about golf?
Being somewhere beautiful in good weather. In her words, skemmtilegast er að vera í fallegu umhverfi í góðu veðri. She is not there for the scorecard, which is a large part of why this channel exists.

What is in every course review?
The green fee and the year we paid it. The buggy cost. The length and the slope. And nearly always how the round flowed, because a beautiful course you spend four and a half hours standing still on is not a good day out. If a course made us wait, we say so. We mention the bunkers when they are a real part of playing the place, which on some courses they very much are.

Where do you film?
Mostly Spain, across the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Cádiz and Sotogrande. Also Iceland, Denmark, Scotland, the United States and the Caribbean.

Why couples over 50?
Because mainstream golf media ignores this audience. We are 50 plus. We make the thing we wanted and could not find.

Are your reviews paid for?
No. Some stays and rounds are hosted or discounted, and when they are we disclose it clearly on the film, in the description and in the article. We have never been paid to say something is good, and we will not be.

Do you say when a course or hotel is not good?
Yes. We have written about dry fairways, bunkers being rebuilt, a beach further from the hotel than the brochure suggests, and a round that cost us nineteen golf balls. If we only said good things, none of it would be worth reading.

What is the best golf course you have played in Spain?
La Hacienda Links. It topped our ranking of the 2025 season (check the video out here), ahead of Las Colinas, Lo Romero, San Roque Old and Las Ramblas. It is also where Hildur made her hole in one (check out the hole in one video here), so we may be slightly biased.

How much does a round of golf cost in southern Spain?
Anywhere from about 70 to over 600 euros, which is exactly why we publish what we paid and when. San Roque New, 72 euros plus 40 for a buggy, 2026. The Alto Club, 128 euros including a GPS buggy, 2026. Las Ramblas, around 119 euros plus 38 for a buggy, 2026. Las Colinas, 70 to 140 by season, 2026. San Roque Old, 300 euros including buggy, 2025, against Valderrama five minutes up the road at over 600 without one. Always check the date on a price, because Spanish green fees move sharply by season.

Should we bring our own clubs or rent them in Spain?
Bring your own. Ryanair charged us 30 euros each way with the bag booked online in 2026, or 40 added at the airport. Airport rental starts around 50 euros a week and resort pro shops charge 35 to 50 euros a round with no guarantee of a matched set. After fifty, grip size and a putter you trust matter more than the baggage fee.

When is the best time to play golf in southern Spain?
Spring and autumn are the most comfortable, and tee times fill fastest then, so book early. We have filmed in July at 35 degrees, which works if you take the first tee time of the day, drink electrolytes rather than plain water, and accept that the afternoon belongs to the pool.

Can you really play golf at midnight in Iceland?
Yes. In June we have teed off at 21:35 (check it out here) with sunset at 00:05, sunrise at 02:55, and finished around two in the morning in full daylight. Keilir Golf Club is fifteen minutes from downtown Reykjavík and it is our home course.

Which golf courses should we play in Iceland?
Our five: Keilir, Brautarholt on the sea cliffs about thirty minutes from Reykjavík, Vestmannaeyjar in the Westman Islands where the front nine sits inside an old volcanic crater, Oddur at Garðabær, and Akureyri, the most northerly eighteen hole course in the world and home of the Arctic Open under the midnight sun.

Do you review cruises as well as golf?
Yes. We took our first cruise as complete sceptics, eleven nights on Celebrity Edge in the Caribbean, paid for entirely ourselves, and came off as converts. Cruise reviews for couples over 50 are now part of what we do.

What do you film with?
A Sony A7C with several lenses, an iPhone 16 Pro Max, a DJI Mini 4 Pro drone, a DJI Osmo Nano and an Insta360 X5. We edit in Final Cut Pro on a Mac. Two people, no crew, no lighting rig. Steinn holds an EASA Open Category A1 and A3 drone licence.

Do you work with golf courses, hotels and cruise lines?
Yes, when it fits. See our Work With Us page.

How can I contact you?
Email
partners@beyond50.golf
steinn@beyond50.golf
hildur@beyond50.golf
hello@beyond50.golf
or leave a comment on any video. We read all of them.

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LAST UPDATED: Sept 2026