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Golf du Rhin, F

Golf in between the borders... GOLF DU RHIN CHALAMPE (FRA)

Embedded on a half-island in the rhyn between France and Germany some bunkers (of concrete) reminds the battle-history of spot during several wars.
Nowadays the landscape of Du Rhyn reminds more of the 'Auenland' from Frodo Beutlin of 'Lord of the rings' - a calm and dreamy nature reserve with willow trees and ponds... Ideal terrain for Donald Harradine to design 1969 a nice Golf course.

Loch 14, Par 4, mit beherztem Drive den Pond überspielen und sich vom Wasser nicht beindrucken lassen...

AMAZE!	You can relax and enjoy this fascinating Auenlandschaft and play a easy golf rounde - the fairways are well maintained and the greens in good shape. Typicially Harradine some hidden challanges awaits you: Bunker by doglegs to avoid or narrow fairways with a lot of willow trees and bushes asides. On each teebox you can listen to the birds. The second nine are more divers and are sunnier and some more ponds and bunkers wait to catch your balls.

FUN Factor	Relax, and avoid the ducks crossing the fairways in search for food... Don't let you distract - and try to get an even better score!
HOW to PLAY	Typically Harradine course with long, but narrow holes and a lot of trees aside: it's important the play accurate. With a nice straigt drive your are perfect in play. ????????
SIGNATURE Hole	Hole 18 is Leanders favourite, a Par 4 with 366 meters from the yellow tee. And water comes into play with a pond sourounding the green.
Golfing Ability	36 +/-

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Golf du Rhin

Ile du Rhin 68490

>+33 3 89 832 832

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https://www.golfdurhin.com/de/golfplatz/18-loch-platz

London Golf Club, International, Kent, GB, e

London Golf Club: Very classy, near Brands Hatch the Formula One racing circuit, 30‘ by train from London

In the eighties the Japanese businessman Masao Nagahara was missing a Championship course near London. So he led built one designed by a Champion, Jack Niklaus. Southeast from London, at Brandshatch close to the Formula 1 Racing ground they found a hilly landscape - a gem for two challenging courses: The Heritage course is built by Jack Niklaus himself, and he inaugurated it playing with Steve Ballesteros the opening tornament. But Heritage is exclusive, for members only. Don't blame, the second, 'International Course', also a Niklaus Golden Bear Design is also very challenging and fun to play with strategic bunkers in the wavey fairways, ponds and tricky greens - all beautifully integrated into the typical english landscape.
Exclusive also is the Club house and restaurant, Enjoy.

More insights see the review in Golf Suisse Magazine by Luzia Kopp, 2 /2018, p. 72 : https://www.swissgolf.ch/magazin/mags/de_DE/2018_Ausgabe_2/index.html

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AMAZE!	Challenging course, excellent to play even with wind. Charming Clubhouse with nice restaurant and Pro-Shop with excellent staff (worked in Switzerland).
HIGH LIGHTS	The course challenges your golfing abilities with exciting and rewarding shots over water that really get the heart pumping: Challenge starts with Hole 1, Par 5: After a precise tee-shot to reach higher ground, take some risk to get to the green protected by a big, deep pond and a nasty bunker. I'm glad to play with Paul Stuart, Head-PR to guide me. Cheer up at the tee of hole no 8, Par 3 and forget the water around the narrow green.
FUN Factor	Play it with Paul Stuart, Head-Pro, you get Champions-advice, improvement of your play and instant success on the course.
HOW to PLAY	As playing a Jack Niklaus Design beware of hazards in play, deep ponds and bunkers are waiting everywere... Yardage is rather demanding with four long par 5 s - great pleasure count nearly five hours to play the course and with the wind that blows often over the meadows.
Golfing Ability	+ /- 28 Hcp advised...

Hole 8, " Luzia: forget the pond and play 159m to the left of the green..."

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Classy clubhouse and with restaurant where they serve you a nice burger while watching the British open on TV.

London Golf Club, Stansted Lane, Ash, Nr Brands Hatch, Kent TN15 7EH U.K. Tel: +44(0)1474879899 www.londongolf.co.uk

Stay and Play,

SCENIC and historic

Not enough green? Lovers of garden culture are rewarded at the Lullingstone Castle & The World Garden

Lullingstone Castle is one of England’s oldest family estates since the 15th Century. The World Garden combines plant heritage with cutting-edge horticulture. The heir of the estate, Tom Hart Dyke, beeing kidnapped in South America decided that the best course of action would be to spend his final day on Earth designing his dream garden in his diary – containing the plants he’d collected from across the globe.
Luckly he survived and realised The World Garden at his estate.

https://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/

the Lullingstone Castle and World Garden, https://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/

Royal St. Georges, Sandwich, Kent, GB, e

Royal St. Georges, Championship Course of the British Open 2021:

100' by train and taxi from London city

A true gem, and a biest: the course offers the toughest resitistance to every shot - still giving the player the opportunity to shine... Even champions at the regular revenue of the British Open suffer about the hazards often dearly visible, next time 2021.
Very traditional, exclusive Club house, the restaurant for members only, but the bar is also offering very decent meals...

More insights see the review in Golf Suisse Magazine by Luzia Kopp, 2 /2018, p. 72 : https://www.swissgolf.ch/magazin/mags/de_DE/2018_Ausgabe_2/index.html

Review of Royal St. George in in Golf Suisse Magazine by Luzia Kopp, 2 /2018

Himalaya or coffin - the deepest bunker in GB they say... 12m to master.

AMAZE!	very challenging Links course with 'Himalya', the deepest bunker I have ever seen: 12 meter high. Sean, the caddie, calls the bunker coffin...
HOW to PLAY	As a Links Course by the sea your golfing abilities are challenged with long blind shots against the wind, luring bunkers, as deep as hell... Fairways are wide but hide some hazards and bunkers. Even if you have seen the course on TV, on the course hidden hazards are waiting every were. We advice you to play it with a member or a caddy to savour to the full what it has to offer... As playing it in July 2017 it was rather cold and windy - Finishing the course brush the sand out of your hair, cloths, and clean your hair...... also because some bunkers triggerd my play.
FUN Factor	Play it at the weekend with a member, who is allowed to take the dog with, the dog could help you to find the ball in the marshland...

Golfing Ability	+ /- 24 Hcp advised...

" Luzia, hit it hard to get out of the bunker" Sean said... Luckily not as deep as Himalayas...

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Very classy and sophisticated clubhouse and restaurant (members only), at the Bar they serve you a nice burger with french fries.

The Royal St. George’s Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent, (on the weekend members only)
CT13 9PB Tel: 01304 613090
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Stay and Play,

Stay at the Prince's Lodge nearby, you can overlook the green No 7, par 5, where all of eagles were shot...

SCENIC and historic

Visit the Falaises Coast like Turner paints it...

Arzaga, Gary Player, Garda, I

Italian landscape meets Gary Players Design at Arzaga Golf Course near Lake Garda:

The nine hole course finished in 2006 is rather a challenge: greens are often protected by crater-deep bunkers - nearly as steep as in Royal St. George.
Designed in the natural beauty of the landscape, this course will fascinate the most experienced golfers and entertain also newcomer.
Play it in spring when flowers and butterflies charm your eyes. Yardage to walk is rather demanding, so when you play during summer take a buggy there are not a lot of trees around to play PAR 36, and walk ca. 3500m.
Situated near the Lake Garda you have fantastic facilities and hotels around - as ..

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Signature Hole on the narrow peninsula No 6, 163 m to play for men (yellow)

AMAZE!	You find an open parkland course with 'Links land' is an undulating surface inmids Italian Landscape. Very comprehensive Marshall and staff: the fixed immedateatly our ball catcher, essentiel for bucca 6...
HIGH LIGHTS	Hole Bucca 3: Steep Bunkers Deep bunkers on both sides of the fairway are waiting to catch your ball. Your approach shot has to be the right length, as the green is guarded by another high-lipped bunker. Hole 6: Peninsula Playground A small green is waiting on the peninsula protected by water and bunkers. So precise play is needed.
FUN Factor	Enjoy a cold drink and have supper under olive trees after the challenging course in the heat...
HOW to PLAY	After hilly No 1, British golfer will feel like home playing a Links course - but in Italian summer - with rather hard soil balls are running on the fairways. But beware of the bunkers: f.e. on the long hole 4th, a 557m long par 5 with bunkers in the landing area of the drive. Another bunker near the green is guarding the left side, while a pond is catching every ball on the right side. Played July 2019
Golfing Ability	+ /- 32 Hcp advised...,

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The Jack Niklaus' 18 hole course just beneath the Restaurant/ Hotel at Arzaga is less challenging - for fun golfer.

Golf Club Arzaga

via arzaga, 1, I-25080 Calvagese della Riviera - Lago di Garda - Brescia, Italien
Tel.: +39 030 680600, Fax: +39 030 680 6270

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www.arzagagolf.it

HOTEL Tip:

Situated near the Lake Garda you have fantastic facilities and hotels around - as

SCENIC

Visit Sirmione with its scenic mediaval castle and Lake Garda

Villa d'Este, Como, Italy

Italian charme and tradition meets at Villa d'Este Golf Course near Como.
Designed in 1926 by Peter Gannon, Villa d'Este is one of the gems of Italian golf courses.
Villa d'Este is a rather hilly course set amdist pine, birch and chestnut trees.
So great to play in summer, yardage is not too demanding and the course quiet easily walkable.
PAR 69.

Relaxing suites at vineyard Tenuta Ronco Regio

Situated near the Lake Como with the famous sites as Bellagio with beautiful exotic gardens at the lakeshore.

AMAZE!	Cool to play even in Italian summer with a lot of trees around. Superb clubhouse and restaurant to have a drink or eat. Very comprehensive staff and service, feel like a queen.
HIGH LIGHTS	Bucca 12, where water comes in to play: inmidst the pine forest with a accurate drive over 170m to the left and with nice precise second shoot of 100m you can easily overplay the little lake and reach the small green. Beware of bunkers around the green.
FUN Factor	Go in harvest, so you can meet al lot of squirrels searching your balls...
HOW to PLAY	Yardage is not too demanding with 2 par 5s - both offer a chance for a birdie - and six par 3s. But accurate play is needed with rather wide fairways in between a lot of trees...
Golfing Ability	+ /- 34 Hcp advised...

Bucca 14, Par , hcp 1, +/- 400m to play, 350m from the red tee

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Nice restaurant with terrace, very italian, with great espresso, Croque Monsieur, in between and an fantastic Vitello Tonnato after the round.

Circolo Golf Villa d'Este Via Cantù, 13, Montorfano (CO) https://www.golfvilladeste.com/en/

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Tenuta Ronco Regio near Como - Camere con vigna

Nice suites at the vineyard Tentuta Ronco Regio:
relax in the sauna, pool or jacuzzi after challenging Villa d'Este Golf course.
Abundant Breakfast buffet was delicous - we were treated like queens and kings...

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Beautiful Gardens

Villa Serbellioni, Bellagio:
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/bellagio-center-villa-serbelloni-a-brief-history/

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Serbelloni

I Roveri by Robert Trent Jones, Torino, Italy

The first Robert Trent Jones Design in Europe offers a great Golf experience

The owners of Fiat, the Agnelli family, invited Robert Trent Jones sen. to create one of his first masterpieces in Europe (Sotogrande was the first in 1964). Where the king of Piedemonte used to hunt, nowadays Golf afficionades search their balls under mature oak trees - I Roveri - with the best view to Mont Blanc und the snowcovered Alps. On the 1971 inaugurated course you will notice the very strategic deployment of water and the very sophisticated plotted position and design of bunkers, and the ondulated greens. Enjoy!

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Bucca 6 - Par 3, typisch Trent Jones: Green schön protected mit Bunkern, taktisch schmaler Einlass zum manicürten Green...

AMAZE!	There are a lot rabbits and even a wild boar have we seen on the King's huntingground... but also a lot of interesting holes the Trent Jones course offers to play in this Nature Reserve. Espacially in harvest when the oaktrees are colourful it's a pleasure to play.

FUN Factor	Challenge your Flight companions with a Matchplay, to find out, who can read the Trent Jones holes better... My son Leander is a little bit disappointed, as I succed to win with 3 Pars the on the Par 3 holes, thanks for reading the hole tacitally and fix the ball with the first stroke on the green, like on Bucca 6....
HOW to PLAY	It's important to study the design carefully before playiing. So look twice and imagine where the ball might land and moves. And you have to know where to play espacially approaching the green: you often don't get the chance to roll the ball onto very well defended greens...
SIGNATURE Hole	Signature Hole 17, HCP 1, a long Par 4 with 417m to the flag. Water comes in to play with a pond to overplay and the green is a dogleg to the right where a bunker tries to catch your ball... In the afternoon some local players take the short cut from hole 2 to play hole 17 twice...
Golfing Ability	Hcp 28 +/ -

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Royal Park Golf & Country Club I Roveri

https://www.royalparkgolf.it/en

Address: Rotta Cerbiatta 24 - 10070 - Fiano (TO)
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Caddie Master: from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm

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Sina Villa Matilde,

A nice stylish Villa from the 19^th century with pool, SPA and Gym, in a beautiful garden with old trees - in the heart of Piemonte. Enjoy!

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Alcanada, Majorca, E

Hans-Peter Porsche's, grandson of legendary car pionier Ferdinand Porsche, realised his golf dream with the Alcanada Golf Course - designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. - situated in the bay of Alcúdia, north east on the island of Majorca. The scenic view would be nothing without the lighthouse on Alacanada Island...

Alcanada is rated as one of the favourite golf courses in Spain - because of the layout and the view - nearly from every hole you can enjoy sea view: good to relax, because several holes are very challenging: first of all no 1, a dogleg to the right, where a canyon has to be overplayed to reach the green.

If you are lucky you get an original Porsche buggy to play your round. Buggy is recommended because the course is hilly and you profit from the newest GPS-technology.

Signature Hole No 7, 523 m to play

AMAZE!	Scenic, the only course with great seaview on Majorca on nearly every hole. Enjoy the challenging hilly course with pine trees embedded in the natural landscape of the Alcudia bay - a role model of the mediterranean. Every hole is different and you can look forward to an exciting round of golf.
HIGH LIGHTS	Signature Hole No 7, overlooking dream landscape and the Alcanda lighthouse, with PAR 5 the longest hole: over 500m to play for all players
FUN Factor	Porsche buggy to play your round
HOW to PLAY	Wide fairways invite longdrivers to hit, but be aware of streams and bushes, whitch flank the playground. The terrain is hilly and canyons are waiting to catch your ball as on hole 1. Steep slopes challenge your creative flair to escape hazards and reach the green. Beware: the greens often not only fail to hold your ball, they are also hard to read... Enjoy!
Golfing Ability	+ /- 28 Hcp advised...

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Services and Restaurant

Very good services on course and in the restaurant: Nice restaurant with sunny terrace and stunning view, and they serve my favourite dish: Pulpo gallego. Delicious!

Club de Golf Alcanada | Carretera del Faro s/n | 07400 Port d'Alcúdia | Mallorca https://www.golf-alcanada.com/en/
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HOTEL Tip: Formentor,

Momenary closed... Four Seasons with Bill Gates as main shareholder purchased the Formentor to create “the best resort in the Mediterranean”.
It will re-open in 2023.
The World-famous Formentor with the charm of the sixities, beautiful situated on the beach, where Sean Connery and Ursula Andres could emerge from the sea...
As the Formentor has welcomed such notable guests as Sir Winston Churchill and Tom Cruise.

Tazegzout, Agadir, Maroc

Tazegzout - new Challange with best view to the Atlantic Ocean, waste areas and Argan tress

You have to unpack your golfing gifts: the very modern course architecture -designed von Kyle Phillips, 2015, needs your skills. The first nine mostly parallel up and down hill are to practice for the second: Back nine are the real challange hilly, with waves and doglegs - and all with the best view to the Altantic ocean and to the construction works around... And you reach the climax with the hole 17 and 18: Scenic view and a challange to play...
In the morning with fog and dizzy weather Tazegzout you feel like on a Links Course in Scottland - but with comfy 28 C. During summer time temperatur rises to over 33 C but often there is a cooling breeze from the Atlantic Ozean.

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Hole 17 as the utmost challenge: Par 3, from Red 120m to play over the canyon and waste area. Leander reaches the green by the first shoot... (Fotos: Leander Kopp/ Luzia )

AMAZE!	Fantastic View over the bay and Atlantic Ocean nearly from every hole. Reminds me to a Links-Course in Scottland - with fog an clouds in the morning...
HIGH LIGHTS	Tagazout is like beauty and a beest: Nice views but nothing to relax: f.e. Par 5 with over 550m to play or a lot of Doglegs with huge fairwys but also stony Waste Areas or Argan-bushes and -trees aside. The goats are nice but cant help finding balls or to play from there...
HOW TO PLAY	Fairways are fair but the soil hard, with short grass: accurate play is a must, else your balls will split away - to the Waste Area (often unplayable...) Strategic bunkers and heavily undulating greens force a tactic approach and putting.
FUN Factor	Relaxing with a cool drink at the Lounge Bar with the best view to Hole 18 and the sea.
Golfing Ability	+ /- 32 Hcp advised...

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Goats help to gain access to the famous Argan-Oil by eating the fruits... (Foto: Luzia Kopp)

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Lounge Bar mit bester Aussicht auf die Bay lädt zum Drink nach der Rounde ein.

Tazegzout Golf, http://tazegzout.com/en/home/

Taghazout Bay Resort,
Km 17, Route d'Essaouira,
Agadir 80750, Morocco

Hyatt Place

HOTEL Tip:

Hyatt Place 5 *

Just there In walk distance - with nice Pools and Facilites like Hammam/ Wellness, or stylish new villas each with their own pool with hotel services.

Marktgräflerland, South Germany D

Nice to play sustainable golf inbetween blossoms and cows

Since the beginning 1995 Golf Marktgräflerland aims to offer Golf on a very high level and to support a sustainble development of the course by respecting natural surroundings and to provide natural habitats and ecosystems for birds and other animals. Encounters with animals on the course are proving that the enviromental commitment works - we are looking forward to golf and animal challenges on the course.

In the midst of flowering meadows and orchards we encounter a well maintained, rather short but hilly course: 5931 m (white ), 5256 Metern (blue) Par 72 - with undulated fairways, challenging doglegs, big bunkers and ponds in play. The hilly Markgräfer landscape takes its toll with elevated unapologetic greens, straight downhill shuts and demands walking some differences in altitude... - carts are avaible if needed.

AMAZE!	The start is typically for the course: Loch 1, Par 4 with around 400 meter to play and an elevated, partially hidden Green with several bunkers around. Play straigt to avoid Out on the right, and on the left with some bushes and big trees covering the sight to the green. On the left a little brook catches the ball, but the alarmed wagtails Bächlein help to find the ball...
	Loch 4, Par 5, In the midst of the hilly flowering meadows a Dogleg to the left demands tactical play: a clever placed Drive rolls100m downhill... Avoid the the big power pole in the middle of the fairway, it blocks a direct shot on the hidden Green. By chance you reach on the right the well manicured big bunkers or worse the water in the pond.
FUN Factor	On each hole animal encounters are welcome: Just at the Teebox No 4 nice beef awaits us: looks like 'scottish'... Or we hear a woodpecker knocking vididly.
HOW to PLAY	The well maintained course demands straight shots and solid tactical play forced by inclinations, the doglegs, hidden approaches and quick and ondulated greens.
SIGNATURE Hole	6, Par 5, the most challening and scenic hole: water, trees and sand awaits you. Long but accurate shots are needed downhill to avoid the obstacles- the trees on the right in the little brook on the left of the dogleg. Finally you have to get to the narrow green near the pond, protected by water and big Bunker.
Golfing Ability	+ /- 32 Hcp advised...,

4 my favourite hole, because of the scenic landscape by bunkers and the pond, on the right avoid the power pole...

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Golfclub Markgräflerland

Tüchlingerweg, D-79400 Kandern, Deutschland

Tel.: +49 7626 977990

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www.gc-mk.com

SCENIC :

Weil am Rhein with the Vitra-Museum is worth a visit, also the Beyeler-Museum in Riehen.