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,-