Troxhammar Golf Club (18-hole course) – Review and Rating

Translated by AI

The course was designed by Jan Sederholm and opened in 1996. More recently it has been renovated and upgraded by Peter Fjällman, work that will continue for another year or so. The course is mainly parkland, with some woodland elements.

Already on the first hole the course tests whether you have your nerves under control, with an approach over a small pond to one of the newly built greens. You notice right away that the course has good access to water from Lake Mälaren (1,000 cubic meters a day). The fairways are in good shape despite the dry weather when we play, and the greens are close to perfect. The new greens are of modern design, with just enough undulation to make putting challenging without feeling impossible. The bunkers have also been renovated in many places, and the former straight edges have given way to a more flowing design. Several bunkers have been newly revetted with vertical links-style walls, and more will follow over time.

After hole two, a newly renovated par five, we come up onto a small wooded rise in the middle of the course, which has been put to the best possible use for a number of elevated tees, number three being the first. Every hole gets prettier with elevated tees, and so it is here. Holes three, seven, fifteen and seventeen all benefit from the height, with a good overview of the course and a chance for a bit of extra length off the tee.

Otherwise the course is mostly played on meadowland, sometimes with forest along one side or the other. A recurring feature is water in the form of strategically placed ponds. During the renovation and rebuild a few more ponds were added, and several green areas were moved so that the ponds come more into play. The course has simply become more and more exciting since the rebuild.

Holes worth noting include the seventh, with a new pond on the right that makes the hole both prettier from the tee up on the hill and more challenging. The pond also turns the previously rather dull sixth into a much better hole, and it will get even better with a completely new green behind the old one.

The fifteenth has also become a real challenge, with a brand new green further to the left. Only the very longest hitters now have a chance to reach the green in two, which has also become riskier with a pond to the left of the green, shared with hole four. Very good improvements.

Is there anything negative to say about the course, then? Not much, maybe the rather straightforward and dull par-three eleventh. Hole thirteen is no highlight either, but there is a plan to improve it. Both holes are perfectly okay, just a bit unexciting.

All in all, the design changes and renovations have made the course considerably more fun to play, and prettier to look at too. The condition we found the course in is impressive for a course in this class, or for any course in a dry summer, for that matter. We recommend that you visit the course; we don’t think you will be disappointed.

This page by Bo Sjosten was originally published in Swedish on our sister site Golfjournalen.se. It has been translated by AI.