The centurion Lucerne Golf Club was established in 1903 and lays claim to being the third oldest golf club in Switzerland. Today’s 18-hole mountain course is set at an altitude of nearly 700 metres, and is located just one kilometre to the north of Lake Lucerne.
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The centurion Lucerne Golf Club was established in 1903 and lays claim to being the third oldest golf club in Switzerland. Today’s 18-hole mountain course is set at an altitude of nearly 700 metres, and is located just one kilometre to the north of Lake Lucerne.
Lucerne
Instigated in 1903, Lucerne Golf Club is the third oldest club in Switzerland. A 9-hole layout was brought into play to largely provide a recreational amenity for visiting British and American tourists but the course reverted to agricultural use during World War I. It re-emerged when hostilities ceased and was then expanded to eighteen holes in 1925.
The Second World War intervened during the early 1940s but the course made a remarkable recovery and has continued to thrive in the years since it re-opened after the war. Today, Lucerne stretches to just over 6,000 metres from the back tees on a property extending to just over 100 acres. Par is set at 72 and fairways are mainly laid out on a northeast-southwest axis.
Highlight holes include short par fours at the opening two holes to help ease you into your round; testing back-to-back par fives at the 4th and 5th; the tough, right doglegging par five 12th (rated stroke index 2); and the shortest of the par threes at the 124-metre 17th, where trees surround the rear portion of the raised green.