Bodensee Weissensberg

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr and unveiled in 1987, the woodland course at Golfclub Bodensee Weissensberg lies close to Lake Constance, in southern Germany. With more than a hundred bunkers in play, it’s renowned as a tough track.

The course measures just over 6,100 metres from the tips, playing to a par of 72, with holes arranged as two returning nines. Aquatic hazards play a large part in proceedings on the woodland front nine, with the same long, narrow body of water coming into play – either on the tee shot or the approach shot – at the par five 4th and par three 5th then again at the par three 8th and par four 9th.

Other holes of note on the more open back nine include the par three 13th (“Sandy Circle”), where a bunker horse shoes round three sides of the green, and the short par four 15th (“Boomerang”), which turns right very late to a green that’s fronted by sand and backdropped by trees. The round ends with another short par four at the 18th and it’s played to a home green that’s surrounded by five large bunkers.