
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.
Koninklijke Haagsche Golf & Country Club (Royal Hague)
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.
Utrechtse Golfclub De Pan
Netherlands
Utrechtse Golfclub De Pan
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.
Kennemer Golf & Country Club
Netherlands
Kennemer Golf & Country Club
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
Netherlands
Eindhovensche Golf
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 Golf Club
Netherlands
Noordwijkse Golf Club
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.
Hilversumsche
Netherlands
Hilversumsche
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.
Rosendaelsche
Netherlands
Rosendaelsche
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.
Bernardus Golf
Netherlands
Bernardus Golf
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...
Lage Vuursche
Netherlands
Lage Vuursche
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.
Hoge Kleij
Netherlands
Hoge Kleij
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...
The International - Amsterdam
Netherlands
The International - Amsterdam
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.
Noord-Brabantsche - Toxandria
Netherlands
Noord-Brabantsche - Toxandria
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.
Stippelberg (Championship)
Netherlands
Stippelberg (Championship)
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.
Swinkelsche (Championship)
Netherlands
Swinkelsche (Championship)
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.
Heelsum (Airborne & Sandr)
Netherlands
Heelsum (Airborne & Sandr)
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.
Gelpenberg
Netherlands
Gelpenberg
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.
Wouwse Plantage
Netherlands
Wouwse Plantage
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...
Goyer (North)
Netherlands
Goyer (North)
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.
Het Rijk van Nunspeet (North & East)
Netherlands
Het Rijk van Nunspeet (North & East)
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.
De Texelse
Netherlands
De Texelse
Architect Alan Rijks set out the original De Texelse 9-hole course in 1996 then he returned in 2014 to expand the layout by adding another nine on adjacent farmland so the club now boasts an 18-hole links-style layout...
Domburgsche
Netherlands
Domburgsche
Domburgsche Golf Club was founded in 1914 and the 9-hole pure links course was commandeered by the Germans during WWII and subsequently bombed by the Allies. The craters now form wonderful revetted bunkers.
Geijsteren
Netherlands
Geijsteren
Founded in 1974, Geijsteren Golf and Country Club started out with a nine-hole course, designed by Donald Steel and Frank Pennink, which was expanded to 18 holes in the 1980s.
Sallandsche
Netherlands
Sallandsche
Originally set out as a 9-hole track by Frank Spalding in 1933, the course at Sallandsche Golfclub on the 'de Hoek' estate was eventually extended to an 18-hole layout by Donald Steel sixty years later.
Noord-Nederlandsche
Netherlands
Noord-Nederlandsche
The layout at Noord-Nederlandse Golf & Country Club was established by Guy Campbell in 1954 then extended to eighteen holes by Frank Pennink in the early 1980s. A decade later, Donald Steel carried out further course modifications.
Herkenbosch
Netherlands
Herkenbosch
Herkenbosch Golf and Country Club lies on the edge of the De Meinweg National Park and it's a beautiful forest course, hewn out of a dense pine forest...