The Netherlands' golfing heritage dates to 1893 with Koninklijke Haagsche Golf & Country Club (Royal Hague). Despite its flat reputation, the Dutch coastline harbours genuine links terrain rivalling Britain's finest dune landscapes. The late 1930s Colt, Alison, and Morrison design at Royal Hague established championship-calibre golf, hosting multiple Dutch Opens. Utrecht De Pan Golf Club, another 1929 Colt masterpiece, showcases heathland routing through ancient forests.
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Host to the Dutch Open on three occasions, Utrecht de Pan Golf Club is a strategic and exacting layout which requires thought rather than muscle, especially during the homeward nine.
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The similarity between this Dutch linksland and that of the British coastline is uncanny. Koninklijke Haagsche Golf & Country Club (or Royal Hague) is an exacting layout which pitches and rolls across undulating land.
As soon as you arrive at Kennemer Golf & Country Club and you catch a glimpse of the undulating links land and the thatched-roof clubhouse, you know you are somewhere special.
Eindhovensche Golf was inaugurated in 1930 and the great Harry S. Colt routed the course through a dense forest a few kilometres to the south of Eindhoven.
Noordwijkse is classic links course on undulating linksland with each hole winding its way through the dunes and occasionally, in a Formby-like style, through pine woods.
Rosendaelsche Golf Club is one of the oldest clubs in the Netherlands (formed in 1895) and is heathland golf at its very best, played over gently undulating forested terrain.
Hilversumsche Golf Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the Netherlands but thankfully you can still get a midweek game if you book in advance.
Shortly after a soft opening in the summer of 2018, it was announced that Bernardus would host three editions of the KLM Open on the European Tour from 2020 onwards...
The Hoge Kleij golf course opened for play in 1985 and during its construction, a number of Bronze Age and Iron Age items were found on site...
You won’t need your passport to board the first tee at The International at Amsterdam Airport, just take your normal golfing gear. But if you’re a plane spotter you might get distracted.
