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Switzerland

It’s true you may hear the jingle-jangle of cowbells in Switzerland, but you’re also likely to hear the ticking of the most famous Swiss export, the precision timepiece. A country of tidiness, neutrality and fantastic scenery, perhaps Switzerland is the best European all-year-round holiday destinations with wonderful winter skiing and invigorating summer alpine walking. Make sure you taste their chocolate too, it’s mouth-watering and you’ll need a bar or two in your bag to energise yourself for some serious golfing.

  1. Pete Dye courses in Europe are very scarce but Domaine Impérial Golf Club is one such rarity and it is one of a select few that were created on the continent by the acclaimed architect and his sons in the late 1980s.

  2. Golf Club de Genève is the premier course in the Geneva region and it was designed by Robert Trent Jones, opening for play in 1972. It is set most beautifully with stunning panoramic views across Lake Geneva.

  3. Lausanne

    Switzerland

    Lausanne Golf Club's fairways plunge dramatically up and down through the avenues of trees, which occasionally open up to provide thrilling glimpses of the Alps.

  4. Perched at high altitude on a lush mountain plateau in the Alps, the Severiano Ballesteros course at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club has to be the most spectacularly scenic tournament venue in the world.

  5. Zürich

    Switzerland

    One of the top private facilities in the country, Golf & Country Club Zürich in Zumikon attracts discerning golfers in the area the same way as Geneva does in the west of Switzerland.

  6. Ascona

    Switzerland

    Golf Club Patriziale Ascona was founded in the late 1920s as Golf Club Ascona-Locarno and the course is owned and run by the local city fathers.

  7. Bad Ragaz

    Switzerland

    The course at Bad Ragaz Golf Club is situated on the floodplain of the River Rhein so the wooded landscape’s a little flat but the impressive mountain surroundings make this one of the most picturesque places to tee it up...

  8. The Woodside course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to be built before the addition of the Lakeside course transformed Sempachersee into the largest golf complex in the country.

  9. Vuissens

    Switzerland

    Vuissens Golf Club is one of Jeremy Pern’s Swiss creations and it opened with an initial six holes in 2001, seven years after its current owners acquired Château de Vuissens.

  10. Gerre Losone

    Switzerland

    A number of national competitions have been held here at Gerre Losone since the golf course opened in 2001 and in recent years, it has become home to the Swiss Open on the Ladies European Tour.

  11. Breitenloo

    Switzerland

    Founded in 1964, Breitenloo Golf Club started out with a 9-hole course fashioned by Frank Pennink and Donald Harradine, which the club expanded to 18 holes by 1971.

  12. Designed by Kurt Rossknecht and opened for play in 2016, Andermatt Swiss Alps is a new and unique golf experience set in the very heart of Switzerland.

  13. Schönenberg

    Switzerland

    The Harradine design company has undertaken well over 100 golf projects throughout Germany and Switzerland and the 18-hole course at Schönenberg Golf & Country Club is one of them.

  14. Wylihof

    Switzerland

    The par 73 course at Wylihof Golf Club is the nation’s longest, measuring 7,242 yards from the back tees, and it’s an open, largely level layout with water only in play occasionally.

  15. Basel

    France

    Basel Golf and Country Club is actually situated a few miles across the border from Basel in the Alsace Region of France but Basel is a Swiss club and a member of the Swiss Golf Association.

  16. Blumisberg

    Switzerland

    Established in 1959, the Bernard von Limburger-designed course at Golf & Country Club Blumisberg combines open meadow and woodland holes routed around a pleasantly undulating property.

  17. Bonmont G&CC

    Switzerland

    Designed by Donald Harradine in 1980, the 18-hole layout at Golf & Country Club de Bonmont lies within a 155-acre parkland domaine to the north of Geneva. Peter Harradine renovated and upgraded his father’s work at the start of the new millennium.

  18. Hittnau-Zürich

    Switzerland

    Dating back to 1964, the hillside course at Hittnau-Zürich Golf & Country Club is one of only a handful of Swiss designs from the drawing board of Bernhard von Limburger. In more recent years, both Peter Harradine and Kurt Rossknecht revised the layout, most recently in 2016.

  19. Lucerne

    Switzerland

    The centurion Lucerne Golf Club was established in 1903 and lays claim to being the third oldest golf club in Switzerland. Today’s 18-hole mountain course is set at an altitude of nearly 700 metres, and is located just one kilometre to the north of Lake Lucerne.

  20. Formerly a 9-holer, the course at Golfpark Zürichsee in Nuolen re-opened in 2018 as an 18-hole layout, after a two-year expansion by Kurt Rossknecht. Fourteen holes were either added or changed, with five of the new holes occupying what was formerly a gravel pit.