Estonian Golf and Country Club – Review and rating
The internationally best known of Estonia’s clubs sits about 25 minutes east of Tallinn, on a slope running down toward the Gulf of Finland, almost…
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Pärnu Bay Golf Links – Review and rating
The entire course is built on sand. The terrain along the Gulf of Riga is fairly flat, and the fairways mostly follow the natural levelness…
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club (Deal) – Review and Rating
Royal Cinque Ports lies just south of the better-known Royal St George’s in Kent, England. Locally the course is simply called "Deal." Royal Cinque Ports is among the most critically acclaimed courses in the British Isles, and a special experience for anyone who gets excited at the thought of playing the best classic links courses.…
Ballyliffin Golf Club (Old Links) – Review and Rating
The original course at Ballyliffin Golf Links, first played in 1947, with a genuine links feel. The first time I walked down the first fairway on Ballyliffin's Old Links and saw the formidable "washboard," which looks like a choppy sea running across between the dunes, a thought flew through my head: how do you mow…
Ballyliffin Golf Club (Glashedy Links) – Review and Rating
The Glashedy Links is the newer course at Ballyliffin Golf Club, designed by Pat Ruddy. While the Old Links has the genuine feel of a natural links course, the Glashedy has all the hallmarks of a 21st-century championship course, with long holes, big greens, wide fairways and revetted, in places deep, bunkers. The Ladies Irish…
Rosapenna Golf Resort (Old Tom Morris Links) – Review and Rating
The Old Tom Morris Links is the older course at Rosapenna, first planned by Tom Morris in 1891, later modified by James Braid and Harry Vardon, and most recently by Pat Ruddy. The Old Tom Morris Links thus has a completely new loop, holes 1–9, bringing you back to the clubhouse after 9 holes. The…
Rosapenna Golf Resort (Sandy Hills Links) – Review and Rating
Sandy Hills is the newer course at Rosapenna, designed by Pat Ruddy and opened in June 2003. Sandy Hills Links is, as mentioned, also designed by Pat Ruddy and is a modern golf course built with modern equipment. It opened in July 2003. The holes with elevated tees and a fairway running through a valley…
Flens GK – Review and Rating
The holes are rarely long, but sometimes hidden and therefore tricky the first time around. The course is well maintained, with lovely fairways and greens. Sometimes the walks between holes are a bit long, but in return the surroundings are classic Sörmland beauty. The rough is sometimes just that, rough, which calls for an extra…
Katrineholms GK (Old Course) – Review and Rating
Two of the loops, the blue and the yellow, wind out across fields down toward a lake. The holes are surrounded by trees and shrubs, proof of the garden of delights that Selma Lagerlöf once wrote about. Today you notice local son Robert Karlsson more, who grew up right next to the blue loop and…
Mälarö GK Skytteholm (18-hole course) – Review and Rating
The layout is exciting and not entirely predictable, the routing well balanced and the greens very well kept. The fairways may feel like the weak link, which is made up for by wonderfully deep bunkers that almost bring Scotland to mind. Since this course is only half an hour by car from the capital, it…
Söderköpings GK (18-hole course) – Review and Rating
With the help of the course guide and the occasional tower, it is fairly easy to understand the holes, even though there are some tricky doglegs. The short holes are just that, short, and so are most of the par 4s. The same goes for the par 5s. The only real negative is the risk…
Lanzarote Golf – Review and Rating
Lanzarote's newest golf course is barren and exciting. This 18-hole course is as close to the volcanoes as you can get, surrounded by patches of black gravel. A single real water hazard and a host of bunkers with light sand break up the routing, which is perhaps not the very best, as a couple of…