Recognition for new Danish courses

The Scandinavian Golf Club's two new courses - the Robert Trent Jones Junior-designed Old and New - have been attracting serious attention and have been included in Golf World magazine's top 100 courses in Europe for the first time.

The Old sprints past a raft of established courses to appear at No.15, while the New enters at No.34. Les Bordes and Morfontaine in France are top of the list with Royal Dutch Hague in third ahead of Royal Zoute (Belgium), Paris Nationale and Valderrama in Spain.

Optical illusions are part of the Old Course design.  For example, on 10th hole two bunkers from the tee seems to be fused in one large, challenging area while on the 17th the landing area appears much narrower than it really is. 


 
The New Course has also been under construction since 2006 and opened earlier this year, demanding accuracy from the tee with the 588-metre 12th hole the signature hole.

The Scandinavian's clubhouse, 30 minutes from the centre of Copenhagen in Allerod, has also been awarded Carpenter and Natural Stone awards for the architecture of Anders Park, who used 400 million year-old Norwegian slate Douglas pine, copper and zinc in its construction.

Besides The Scandinavian Golf Club’s two courses, three other Danish golf courses canfeature in the Top 100 - Lubker Sky-Sand (16th) Esbjerg (60) the Forest Course in Holstebro (89),  Rungsted GC (77) and was in 2008 listed as #77 and Denmark’s first RTJII golf course at Skolí (98).