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Netherlands

The Netherlands, or Holland as it is often misguidedly known, is one of Europe’s most popular destinations. Amsterdam’s tulips and its colourful sometimes alternative scene, attracts millions of visitors each year.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Hilversumsche

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    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.

  7. Rosendaelsche

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    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.

  8. Bernardus Golf

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    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...

  9. Lage Vuursche

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    The Golfsociëteit De Lage Vuursche layout was fashioned by Kyle Phillips and it opened for play in the year 2000. This was an ambitious restoration project which aimed to revert flat farmland back to its former glory of rolling terrain flanked by woodland.

  10. Hoge Kleij

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    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...

  11. 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.

  12. The Dutch

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    Opened for members play in May 2011 and known simply as “The Dutch”, this new Colin Montgomerie inland links-marketed golf course was at the heart of Holland’s bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup.

  13. Noord-Brabantsche Golf Club Toxandria was founded in 1928 when Harry Colt laid out a nine-hole course on a small parcel of sandy heathland located between Breda and Tilburg.

  14. Golfbaan Stippelberg is a wonderful new addition to the Dutch golfing scene. Architects Michiel van der Vaart , Philip Spogaard and Gerard Jol made the most of the dream landscape for their first new project.

  15. Bounded on three sides by woodland, the Swinkelsche golf complex is a wonderful example of just what can be achieved through modern construction techniques for a relatively modest cost.

  16. The 27-hole golf complex at Golfclub Heelsum is a new millennium design by Hans Hertzberger which lies to the north of the Nederrijn River, close to the city of Arnhem.

  17. Gelpenberg

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    Set next to the village of Aalden, the course at Drentse Golfclub De Gelpenberg is an early 1970s production from Frank Pennink and Donald Steel which features an open outward half and wooded inward half, with both nines returning to the clubhouse.

  18. Wouwse Plantage

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    Frank Pennink set out the original 9-hole Wouwse Plantage woodland golf course at the end of the 1970s and it would take just over another decade before Paul Rolin added a further nine holes...

  19. Goyer (North)

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    The North course at Goyer is very flat, as you would expect in this part of the world, with clever use of water, waste bunkers and mounding at many of the holes.

  20. It’s one of four golf complexes in the Netherlands that operate under the banner of Het Rijk “The Empire” and its tight, tree-lined holes are laid out within woodland to the south of the small market town of Nunspeet.