Germany

North West Germany, Germany

Falkenstein is an attractive golf course, which is routed in all directions of the compass. The wooded location provides a genteel oasis to play golf, away from the hustle and bustle of Hamburg’s city centre.

North West Germany, Germany

The scale of the challenge at Budersand Sylt is set out at the very first hole on the fringe of the property, played downhill to a fairway that then veers left and up to a green with a sand hill to the right for protection...

West Germany, Germany

Founded in 1906, Golf- und Land-Club Köln is one of Germany’s oldest golf clubs and the course in play today, which dates back to 1952, is routed through the dense forest at Refrath.

West Germany, Germany

Hubbelrath Golf Club was founded in 1961 and it’s located a mere 10kms east of Düsseldorf City Centre on 90 hectares of heavily forested and rather hilly land.

South West Germany, Germany

Frankfurter Golf Club was a once a regular German Open venue and this historical layout was designed by Harry Colt and John Morrison in the 1920s.

North West Germany, Germany

Surprisingly, for 27 holes on a site with little room to spare, the routing at Föhr Golf Club is not only perfectly walkable, but also quite interesting.

North East Germany, Germany

Formed as Berlin Golf Club by British and American diplomats back in 1895, Golf- und Land-Club Berlin-Wannsee is one of the oldest and most prestigious in continental Europe.

North East Germany, Germany

The Canadian architect David Krause certainly moved the earth to create the Winston Links course, which is set in a sandy landscape, and is described as an inland links.

North West Germany, Germany

At the Club zur Vahr nestles one of Germany’s best courses. Carved through a pine forest, the course is known as Garlstedt and some say it’s even better after its 2004 facelift when all greens, tees and bunkers were renovated by Christoph Staedler.

North East Germany, Germany

Seddiner See is one of Germany’s great golfing venues and it lies in the heart of the lake district, to the south of Berlin City Centre and it’s reachable by car in about 30 minutes via the autobahn.

North East Germany, Germany

Arnold Palmer laid out the first course at the Sporting Club Berlin Scharmützelsee (now known as Bad Saarow Golf Club) back in 1995 and it’s a cracker and probably the course you’ll want to limber up on first.

North West Germany, Germany

St Dionys Golf Club is a course for the ball-striker and this undulating moorland layout is set on the edge of the glorious Lüneburg Heath.

North West Germany, Germany

Norderney is one of seven populated Frisian Islands off the North Sea Coast and the 9-hole links course at Golfclub Norderney – configured with three par threes, three par fours and three par fives – dates back to 1927, when the club was founded.

North East Germany, Germany

The four par threes on the Winston Open course (at 4, 7, 11 and 15) are all noteworthy holes, though the water-threatened 15th is not such a “short” hole at 235 yards from the back tees.

South East Germany, Germany

Graham Marsh, one of Australia’s most successful golfers, designed the course at Golf Club Am Habsberg and Colin Montgomerie opened the new layout with a cracking drive...

West Germany, Germany

Gut Lärchenhof Golf Club returned to the professional circuit by first staging the BMW International Open in 2012, thus continuing a proud tradition that began by hosting the German Masters and the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

South West Germany, Germany

During the 1937 German Open, Henry Cotton played a round of 63 at Mittelrheinischer Golf Club in Bad Ems, the lowest score ever recorded in Germany up to that point.

North West Germany, Germany

Gut Wissmanshof is an old country estate, whose fifteen minutes of fame came in 1912 when Emperor Wilhelm II visited to survey military exercises nearby.

South East Germany, Germany

Wittelsbacher Golfclub occupies a 167-acre property on which the horses of the Bavarian royalty were once bred. J. F. Dudok van Heel set out the course in 1988 and a round here starts and ends with a par five.

South West Germany, Germany

All things considered, Bad Neuenahr is a good all-around test of golf on a beautiful site, perhaps lacking a few percent here or there to really threaten the world class, but certainly very worthwhile.

West Germany, Germany

Bad Münstereifel is the archetypical hidden gem… no one in particular designed it, it lies in the middle of nowhere, there is hardly any traffic on the golf course...

West Germany, Germany

Despite being a bit on the short side, the golf course at Elmpter Wald must rank as one of the best in Germany. It has strategy, quirk, sandy fairways and heather galore.

South West Germany, Germany

The oldest still-existing golf club in Germany is the one in Wiesbaden, which was founded in 1893 and moved to the present "Chausseehaus" site in 1911.

North West Germany, Germany

There is something to discover on almost every hole at Altenhof Golf Club and the player is sure to experience a number of bizarre moments due to unusual angles and shot values.

North West Germany, Germany

Bernhard von Limburger laid out the original 9-hole course at Golf Club Lohersand across a forested heathland property in 1959.

South East Germany, Germany

München-Riedhof is a memorable layout that was designed in 1989 by Heinz Fehring across undulating terrain. It's a first class experience all around, but the club never loses sight of its raison d'être - a very playable golf course.

North East Germany, Germany

Officially opened in 2001 with a pro-am event before the 15th edition of the now defunct Ladies German Open, the Stan Eby course at Golf Club Bad Saadow sits on a hill overlooking the resort, with great views of the surrounding landscape.

South East Germany, Germany

Founded in 1926, Feldafing is one of Germany’s oldest golf clubs and it's set most spectacularly in an estate that was formerly owned by King Maximilian II of Bavaria.

South West Germany, Germany

You’ll find that a round on the 18-hole course at Schloss Langenstein offers as close to a quintessential British parkland golf experience as you could ever wish for.

South West Germany, Germany

The history of the Jakobsberg golf course starts in 1157, when Frederick I Barbarossa founded a monastery on a plateau high above the majestic Rhine valley...

South West Germany, Germany

It must be assumed that for the last couple of centuries the Hofgut Georgenthal estate was a rather unpopular place, as it was the church's official leaseholder for collecting the tithe from the surrounding farms.

West Germany, Germany

Home venue of the Paderborn University golf teams, the Haxterhöhe Links course at Haxterpark was laid out in the style of a Celtic links by Achim Reinmuth of Städler Golf Courses, with shaping by Conor J. Walsh.

South West Germany, Germany

You’ll need a long and accurate game to tame the St Leon course at St Leon-Rot and you’ll also need a soft touch around these greens...

North West Germany, Germany

Hamburger Hittfeld celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007 and the John Morrison designed layout is still as enthralling today as it was half a century ago.

South East Germany, Germany

This is an excellent course that all Donald Harradine connoisseurs will truly enjoy. Terrain dictates rhythm – nowhere is this truer than at Schloss Klingenburg Golf Club...

South East Germany, Germany

Although Golf Club am Reichswald was founded in 1960, an inaugural 9-hole course didn’t appear until four years later. Another decade would then pass before today’s 18-hole layout came into play in 1974.

South West Germany, Germany

Founded with a 9-hole course in 1970, Freiburger Golfclub evolved over time to develop a fine 18-hole layout.

North East Germany, Germany

The Eikhof course at the Ostsee Golf Resort Wittenbeck has distant sea views, a links-like styling, no trees and ample wind - but also numerous water features and extensive bunkering and mounding.

North West Germany, Germany

The signature hole on the Niedersachsen course is the par three 11th and its island green complex is shaped like a boar’s head, exactly as depicted on the Hardenberg family crest.

South East Germany, Germany

The “A” and “B” nines at Golf Valley München comprise the longest and toughest 18-hole course at this 27-hole complex but the water-laden “C” circuit is a favourite of many with its island green at the “signature” 7th hole.

North East Germany, Germany

There are golf holes to spare at Golf Club Bad Saarow (formerly known as Sporting Club Berlin Scharmützelsee) – 63 in total – but the centrepiece of this golf resort, which is situated in Bad Saarow next to the beautiful Lake Scharmützel, is the Faldo Berlin course.

South West Germany, Germany

Interesting sites for building golf courses are becoming increasingly rare, but at St Wendel a great opportunity presented itself when the French military left the city in 1999... welcome Wendelinus Golfpark.

North West Germany, Germany

Things are generally pretty low key at Gut Düneburg and the golf course doesn't shove its features in your face, but there’s a quiet air of quality underlying everything.

North East Germany, Germany

The Sandy Lyle course at Schloss Wilkendorf is set in rolling secluded Brandenburg countryside to the north east of Berlin. The former Masters champion designed it with a little help from Ross McMurray of European Golf Design.

South East Germany, Germany

The course at Golf- und Land-Club Regensburg is an exemplary Donald Harradine design on a pretty severe site. It certainly exudes plenty of blue-blooded elegance, but also an element of blue-collar raucousness…

North West Germany, Germany

Created by Arnold Palmer on a 300-acre site near the city centre and close to the exhibition grounds, Rethmar is one of less than a dozen designs by the great man in all of Europe...

North West Germany, Germany

The Big Apple 18-hole course was the first layout to appear at the 27-hole Golf Club Gut Apeldör facility in the mid-1990s, with fairways routed around several large water hazards.

West Germany, Germany

Düsseldorfer Golf Club's adventure starts off with three moderate holes and then the rollercoaster is kick started...

South East Germany, Germany

Golf Resort Achental is located outside the market town of Grassau, to the south of Lake Chiemsee. It’s here that Thomas Himmel fashioned a very polished layout in 2013 which one commentator termed “the Upper Bavarian equivalent of Son Gual in Majorca”.

South West Germany, Germany

Stuttgarter Golf Club Solitude was founded way back in 1927 but the prolific architect Dr Bernhard von Limburger designed the current layout in the late 1960s.

North West Germany, Germany

Set in extensive grounds, with an old manor house as a grand clubhouse, the three nines at Gut Kaden are named – in somewhat uninspiring fashion – A, B and C.

North West Germany, Germany

Founded in 1964, Golf Club Hamburg Wendlohe had a 9-hole course in operation six years after its formation. By 1973 the “A” and “B” nines were in play, with an additional 9-hole “C” circuit introduced in the late 1980s.

South West Germany, Germany

Set out in a 125-acre portion of the Spessart Nature Park, the course at Golf-Club Bard Orb is a Patrick Merrigan design offering golfers in the Rhine-Maine area a complete escape from the outside world within its wonderful parkland setting.

South West Germany, Germany

The Rot course at St Leon Rot Golf Club was opened in 1997 and hosted the European Tour's Deutsche Bank/SAP Open in 1999 and 2001 – Tiger Woods won on both occasions.

South East Germany, Germany

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.

South East Germany, Germany

Situated to the south of Munich in the shadow of the Bavarian Alps, St Eurach Golf Club was designed by the celebrated golf architect Donald Harradine and it’s routed through a heavily forested landscape…

South West Germany, Germany

Golfclub Heidelberg-Lobenfeld was founded in 1968 and a 9-hole layout designed Donald Harradine was inaugurated five years later. By 1978 this layout was extended to eighteen holes and it’s since been modified in the new millennium by Thomas Himmel.

North West Germany, Germany

The Lakes course at Schloss Lüdersburg Golf Resort opened in 1999 and it’s fashioned in an American links-like style with vast expanses of water, challenging greens and tight fairways.

South East Germany, Germany

With impeccable course maintenance and fascinating variation from hole to hole Schwanhof is a layout that will enthrall golfers of all abilities.

South East Germany, Germany

Münchener Golf Club dates back to 1910 but its current 27-hole golf facility is relatively modern. Eighteen Bernhard von Limburger holes were unveiled in 1964 and Kurt Rossknecht added another nine in 1996 before Perry Dye carried out a complete remodel a decade later.