Ternesse (Championship)

Located close to Antwerp city centre, the golf facility at Ternesse Golf & Country Club was founded in 1976, with 27 holes routed around a beautiful old 175-acre castle estate. The layout was originally designed by Harold Baker (who has a number of Belgian and French courses to his name) and it was renovated in the late 2010s to cater for new elements of challenge presented by modern playing equipment. Both Martin Hawtree and Dimitri van Hauwaert contributed towards planning this upgrade work at the club.

Today, the main 18-hole layout extends to 5,812 metres from the back tees, playing to a par of 71, with holes organized as two returning nines. Water comes into play on several holes, most prominently at the short par four 7th and par three 8th, where the greens are both protected by ponds. There’s also a little lake to be avoided to the front right of the putting surface on the par three 17th.

Other holes of note include birdie opportunities at the 9th and 18th, where both nines conclude next to the clubhouse with reachable par fives for big hitting golfers. There’s also a tough 3-hole sequence of par fours from hole 14 to 16 (rated stroke index 3, 1 and 7) which ends with the 352-metre 16th bending left past a large bunker complex towards a heavily sand-protected green.