Achental

Golf Resort Achental is located outside the market town of Grassau, to the south of Lake Chiemsee. It’s here that Thomas Himmel fashioned a very polished layout in 2013 which one commentator termed “the Upper Bavarian equivalent of Son Gual in Majorca”.

Extending to 5,835 metres from the back markers and playing to a par of 72 (37 out then 35 in), the course features half a dozen water-laden holes, which are strangely enough played in pairs at #2 and #3, #9 and #10 and #16 and #17.

Highlight holes apart from these aquatically challenged six include the slightly right doglegging par five 5th and the shortest par three on the card at the 120-metre 6th. The round also ends on the 18th with a sharp right turn over a small pond to the home green.