Berliner - Motzener See (A & B)

There are half a dozen top drawer golf clubs located around the perimeter of Berlin, and three to the south of the city, Berlin-Wannsee, Seddiner See and Motzener See, all have courses fit to hold national championships. One of them, in fact, Motzener See, have done just that, hosting the German Masters for four years running, starting three years after the course was opened in 1991.

Managed by the CCA Group (who also run Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire) and part of the Palmerston Hotels & Resorts Company, Motzener See was designed by one of the most prolific modern golf architects in Europe, Kurt Rossknecht. He was an extremely busy man in his native Germany in the early 1990s, going on to create other fine courses like Gut Thailing (1994), Rittergut Birkhof (1995) and the 27-hole Am Alten Fleiss (1995).

Motzener See is an open parkland course which has been described as having both American and Scottish influences in the form of shaped bunker complexes and fast rolling fairways. Most of the greens are huge to test putting skills to the full and water is to be avoided early in the round at holes 3 and 4, then late on at the 17th and the monster, 488-yard, par four 18th finishing hole.

The club added a third nine (the "C" course) in 2016 so the facility now has 27-holes along with an adjoining 9-hole par three course, which is very useful for fine tuning your short game before taking on the original A and B course.