Brautarholt - Iceland

This course was a very pleasant surprise I had one day in Reykjavik and was pulling to play one of the other courses that are more highly rated on this website however I was convinced by my playing partner of the day that Brautarholt was the right choice this proved to be a good decision.

This is a twelve hole course it is made up of 6 par fours, 4 par threes and 2 par fives while many of the par fours are short they tend to have wildly undulating greens to help defend par.

The first hole may well be the best opening hole on the planet from an elevated tee you play down to a fairway that snakes it way along the cost before an uphill approach shot to wildly undulating green almost hanging over the edge of a cliff this par 5 can provide a birdie opportunity if played cleverly or an absolute disaster if you get too greedy we played it twice and I had both.

The views from the course are spectacular the whole way around while the cliff side holes are the show stopper the sight of perfectly maintained fairways draped across the Icelandic topography is visually pleasing.

This course is far from perfect it lacks long holes to truly challenge the long hitter and there is a long uphill slog between holes one and two and eight and nine however for great day of fun golf where thinking your way around is rewarded I can highly recommend Brautarholt.

we had a 24 hr stopover in Iceland and since I collect golf courses off we went. 3 degrees we are the only car in parking lot other than the manager

course was in average condition but truly a fun layout with some spectacular holes

the 3 new holes were sort of open so why not try

as a 12 hole golf course its a ton of fun

when we left the only car in the lot was the manager

would i recommend

highly if you are a golf idiot like me