Mühlenhof G&CC

• Date: October 28, 2006
• Name: Mühlenhof Golf and Country Club
• Where: Greilack 29, Kalkar-Niedermörter 47546,Germany
• Telephone: +49 2824 / 92 40 92
• Email: via internetpage
• Course grade: 8
• Clubhouse: 6
• Overall grade: 7 0n a scale from 1 to 10.

On a cold and rainy day I played this course for the second time. What I really like about this course is the diversity of each and every hole.

The fun really starts at the second hole where you have to cross water twice. This is the first one of a few holes where u have to cross water. Water is not a big issue here but something to keep in mind.

The 12th hole is one of the more difficult ones. Once again crossing water and the green on the far left side makes it impossible to see the pin.

The 15th hole is also a great hole to play. A bunker in the middle of the fairway, just in front of the dogleg to the right. When you have passed the corner there is a real nice opening in the fairway. If you can hit your drive nicely in the dogleg a par is possible. If not, the trees and bushes on the right side of this hole make it impossible to see the pin. You can play safe or try and hit the ball over the trees and bushes in seacrh of the green.

Besides the poor weather it was good fun to play this course. High handicapers will have problems to play below 100 due to the difficulty of the holes, but it is still big fun. I am sure this wont'be the last time i playe here. I look forward to adding some more nice pictures in the future.

Greenfee:

• Weekdays 18 holes € 40,-
• Weekends and special holidays € 45,-
• Buggy € 20,-

Golfclub Oostburg

• Date: September 9, 2006
• Name: Golfclub Oostburg
• Where: Brugse Vaart 10, 4501 NE Oostburg, Holland
• Telephone: +31 117 45 34 10
• Email: info@golfoostburg.com
• Course grade: 6
• Clubhouse: 9
• Overall grade: 7+ 0n a scale from 1 to 10.

Today we played on the course of Golfclub Oostburg. It is in the southwest of Holland, close to the Belgian border not far from Knokke (B).

What first strikes you is the amazing clubhouse.When I left the parking and first saw it, the intro of the tv series Dallas started in my head. It is very beautiful. The next thing was the warm atmosphere in the shop which is just behind the reception. Everything has a Belgium touch so warmth guaranteed, even the young woman at the reception had a lovely Belgium accent to top it all of.

The course itself is really beautiful with a few nice holes, but not really anything special. That is until you come to hole 14. On this hole you tee-off surrounded by pelicans. Pelicans in Holland, on a golfcourse? I never thought these birds were so big. When one of them took an intrest in me I took a few steps back. Not that I was afraid, but this was the first time in my life I saw one really up close and there were no bars or water between us. Help!!

Another beautiful aspect of this hole, was the small bridge that looks a lot like the bridge on the 18th hole of St. Andrews. Very pretty.

Finally the approach on the 18th hole is absolutly spectacular. Walking to the green you see the clubhouse again and everybody sitting outside to admire your final approach. In my case, a rocket like shot that went to hard over the green. I wish it was raining so everybody would be inside.

Overall a really beautiful place to play golf with two outstanding features; The clubhouse and those birds!

Greenfee:

• Weekdays 18 holes € 50,-
• Weekends and special holidays € 60,-
• Buggy € 30,-

Krakow Valley G&CC

• Date: July 11, 2006
• Name: Krakow Valley Gof & Country Club
• Where: Paczoltowice 32832-063, Krzeszowice (Krakow), Poland
• Telephone: +48 12 282 94 67
• Email: turniej@krakow-valley.com
• Course grade: 9
• Clubhouse: 4. (Was just a big party tent)
• Overall grade: 8 0n a scale from 1 to 10.

Today, me and my buddies played on the Krakow Valley Golf & Country Club. The first thing you will remember about playing here is the road to get there. Although we used our navigation system, it was really hard to find. The last part of the trip is through thick forest, so thick that in daytime you need your headlights.

After driving and looking for the really small signs, we finally found the course. Let me tell you, I wish we had a Hummer and not our regular stationwagon. There were rocks on this dirtroad the size of footballs and holes as deep as bunkers on St. Andrews Old Course. Driving up to the parking we noticed that there were not a lot of cars outside. The temperture was in the high 30's, celsius, but still there were not a lot of people. Was this a bad choice?

We walked to the reception area and said we made a reservation by phone from Holland. We were glad that the trip was not in vain, the reservation was in order and we booked our golf cars and went on to the driving range. After a short preparation we took of to the first hole and we were amazed.

The course was designed by Ronald Fream, an American from California who started his career in 1966 in the team of the legendary Robert Trent Jones. What he had enough of was space and he used the whole lot. From some parts of the course you can oversee the hole area with its hills and beautiful surrounding nature. We were glad that we rented some golf cars because we had forgotten our mountain boots. What a walk this would have been. The whole course is up and down.

There were a few small things we didn't like. These things had nothing to do with the course. The temperture was too high, making it difficult to focus on your game and ......the hornets, there were hundreds of them. One of them stung me in the leg so the next day i walked with one leg that could be of an elephant. Despite this leg I have never played on a course so beautiful as this one, not yet!

Greenfee:

• Weekdays 18 holes zł 170,-
• Weekends and special holidays zł 200,-
• Buggy zł 125,-