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"Think about the Rat Pack in the glory days of Vegas," Samele says. "It's a celebration of manhood aimed at recapturing that era of the three-martini lunch. Sure, we're grown men. A lot of us are fathers, but that doesn't mean we should forget about having fun."

While Samele concerns himself with an all-male audience, Cork & Tee is aimed at any golfer with an interest in the finer points of culinary culture. The company specializes in refined golf vacations, with an off-the-course focus on wine and food.

Co-founders Gene Holland, a college golf stand-out who played at the University of North Carolina with the likes of Davis Love III and Jack Nicklaus II, and his partner, Jim Dondero, craft high-end excursions to some of the world's most hallowed golf locations, from Ireland and Scotland to the coasts of Oregon and California. But their unique ingredient is haute cuisine.

A Cork & Tee itinerary might pair, say, tee times at Turnberry and St. Andrews (Cork & Tee has a cozy relationship with the coveted Old Course) with private cooking classes and personalized tours of whisky distilleries. It's a service for the golfer who wants to play Pebble Beach or Pasatiempo in northern California, then cap off the experience with a fine wine-country dinner and a complex central coast pinot noir.

In Oregon, Cork & Tee arranges tours of the Willamette Valley, a famed grape-growing region, as well as golf at Bandon Dunes Resort, home of three world-class courses, including Golf Magazine's top-rated U.S. track: Pacific Dunes.