Dutch immigrants: the best golf course

Mysterious visit to the best golf course in Holland. Ajax has always been a symbol of Dutch football, and no one can shake the status of this football club that has trained many world stars in the Netherlands. In the field of golf in the Netherlands, there is also an Ajax, that is, Kennemer Golf and Country Club located in Zan dehydrop, a famous tourist resort. This stadium is not only the best in the Netherlands, but also one of the top 100 in Europe.

Mysterious visit to the best golf course in Holland

Kennamer Country Club was founded in 19 10, which was later than Ajax Football Club 10, but it was the pioneer of Dutch golf courses.

19 1 1 year, Kennamer country club built a 9-hole course with a length of over 2,000 yards. Then, this 9-hole golf course began to host domestic golf events in the Netherlands and some international events. With the increase of competitions, the fame of Kennamel Country Club began to grow in the Netherlands and even in Western Europe.

However, in 1920, the board of directors of the club decided to add 9 holes and build a 18-hole stadium because it felt that 9 holes could no longer meet the growing requirements of the competition. 1926, the new stadium started construction. Two years later, a brand-new 18 hole international standard course began to open to the public.

From 1928, which was officially put into use, to 1940, this stadium holds four international competitions every year and has become the "Royal Stadium" of Dutch golf events. However, the invasion of Nazi Germany in May, 1940 deprived Kennamer country clubs of the opportunity to continue to develop.

Because Kennamer Country Club is located on the North Sea coast, the stadium is naturally the place where Germans build coastal fortifications. More than 70 concrete bunkers and anti-tank walls destroyed Kennamel Stadium, and the bunkers and greens between the original green slopes became German stables. Members of the club also disappeared in the war. It was not until 1945 that Germany was defeated that the membership of Kennamer Country Club began to increase slowly.

1947, Kennamer Country Club * * * had 350 members. By 1970, the number of members has reached 775. After World War II, Kennamel Stadium began to host various golf events, including 65,438+00 International Open, 3 international women's amateur championships and 5 international men's amateur championships.

1985, Kennamer country club began to rebuild the stadium, transforming the original 18-hole stadium into a 27-hole stadium. This great change is epoch-making for Kennamel Club. Just like a port with greater throughput after expansion, Kennamel Stadium has also accepted more competitions and friends who love golf.

A mysterious visit to the best golf course in the Netherlands-different Lincks.

If you have fought in Lincks Stadium in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Ireland, then you may be interested in Kennamer Stadium. Kennamer Stadium is adjacent to the North Sea, facing the British Isles across the sea, but it is completely different from Lincks Stadium in the design style of the stadium.

There are very unique landforms and coastal locations here. Kennimel Stadium is located in a pure natural coastal wetland, which is very suitable for plant growth. Moreover, there is a huge national park near the stadium, where there are many wild bushes and dense pine forests, and most of the plants in Kennamer Stadium are selected from here. Therefore, when they first arrive at Kennamel Stadium, many people will feel that they are in a botanical garden.

Compared with the grand, rough and heroic Lincks style of the British Isles Beach Stadium, the "Lincks style" of Kennamel Stadium pays more attention to details. This is like the football styles of the two countries: although they are both powerful, the Dutch pay more attention to delicate ground coordination and short pass, while the British prefer to solve the battle with speed and strength.

Pine trees are widely planted on both sides of the fairway of Kennamel Stadium, while some wild shrubs become the scenery of the stadium and some become one of the obstacles of the stadium. At the same time, the water barriers, bunkers and slopes here are also very distinctive. Perhaps because of the characteristics of the local wetlands, the bunkers in Kennamel Stadium are not as dry as those in the mainland stadium, and there is always a feeling that clothes are not dry. So, trapped in the bunker here, you probably have to use a sand wedge to escape smoothly.

In addition, the perennial sea breeze and the characteristics of wetlands make Kennamer Stadium have many rugged sand dunes of different sizes. Compared with common water obstacles, the ups and downs of sand dunes will make golfers encounter many difficult positions.

A mysterious visit to the best golf course in the Netherlands-Danger and scenery coexist

The 1 hole in Kennamel Stadium is not as terrible as people think, but the fairway like a fault is enough to make people confused about the smooth attack on the green.

The second hole is par 3, 160 yards. It doesn't look like a long hole, but it's not easy to protect Par or catch birds in this hole. The tee of the second hole is clean, but the green in the distance is surrounded by dense pine forests and bushes. From the tee to the green, from the bush to the pine forest, it doesn't look like playing golf, but like hunting in the jungle. Starting from this hole, there are more and more thorns in Kennamel Stadium.

The third hole has a winding fairway full of traps; Bunker array similar to anti-tank pit in front of the seventh hole green; 15 hole is called one of the most difficult greens in Europe, which can make you fail several times when attacking the green. But Kennimel Stadium is not synonymous with hardship, it also has a refreshing side, such as the ninth hole.

The 9th hole looks like17th century western European country oil painting. The rural buildings and pine trees in the distance in the picture are the most beautiful scenery in this painting. But for friends who come here to enjoy golf, you might as well walk from the tee to the green first, and you will find yourself disappearing into the undulating fairway several times.

In fact, whether it's the many obstacles on the green or the difficulties on the fairway, you have to experience the unique scenery and golf culture here to appreciate the essence of a golf course when you play in Kennamel.