Hills - South & West Sweden - Sweden

The best golf course you've never heard of. Arthur Hills had the misfortune of developing residential golf courses in the US and being overshadowed by Pete Dye and Nicklaus - if only he had done his work 20 years earlier and had better sites to work with - like Oitavos. I am confident that 50 years from now Hills' work will be rated higher than Nicklaus'es.

Hills is an excellent glf course and better than any course in Switzerland or Austria in my opinion. The only weak hole that i can think of is the par 3 hole 6, it's just the wrong angle with the trees on the right - not sure if that is due to the redesign by the new owners after the club went bust in the 2010s.

The risk/reward holes are terrific - such great variety on this course and beautiful bunkers inspired by links courses. A recovery shot is possible on most occasions, from bushes and trees.

Completely underrated and much better than Sweden's PGA national.

Set up for golf with a buggy, which I really do mot like. This means that if you decide to walk anyway, you are in for a real workout as many tees are placed on small hills (of course).

Also, some greens are turning into poa annua, which meant that that they were not that uniform when I visited in July 2016.

So, how to rate it? Putting aside my personal dislike of "buggy-centered" golf courses, it is clearly not in the same league as Bro Hof, Sand and PGA to compare it with some newer courses in Sweden. Actually, the Swedish course I kept thinking of what was Vidbynäs, but Hills offers a better overall experience.

Regionally, I would also place Vallda ahead of Hills.

So, overall maybe correctly valued.

Positives ? It should be possible to play fast...if you take a buggy on a less crowded time. Great clubhouse, good practice facilities. Lots of good golfers at this club....but the course is not my cup of tea.

4 balls it will be.

I played a couple of games here in 2012 ( Volvo amatuer masters )and found it a challenging but fair course, the condition was good the lay out was varied long holes, short holes, elevated, water hazards, trees, we played from the gold tees and had great games there were as many as 7 tee positions so obviously a course catering for the pro's. best bit was the shower at the end, (what a trek and that was in a buggy ).

Liked this course a lot. It has good conditioned fairways, greens and tees and is very undulated with a lot of elevated tees high above the ground. The only downside to my experience of the course was the big similarity between the par 3's on the course. They were almost all of them the same length and played pretty similarly to each other. The one exception would be the 4th hole par three which stood out. Overall a great course with a very nice clubhouse and good practice facilities.

different for sweden and a very enjoyable round. a ridiculously long and hilly walk but manageable by buggy.conditioning could be better but you get what you pay for and that is a good golf experience for a reasonable price.

I played this course in May 2007. It was a experience. Great design, great condition! But prepare for a hard march, or take a golfbuggy!