Berlin Sporting Club (Nick Faldo Course) - Germany
Berlin Sporting
Club is 150 miles from the Baltic Sea, but the
Nick Faldo Course has the features and feel of a
seaside links. The club is located outside the
town of Bad Saarow near the shore of the
Scharmutzelsee lake. Working with Stan Eby,
Faldo took great care in creating subtle drapes
of fairway on a flat site. The strategic
challenge comes from the sunken, grass-walled
bunkers-130 in total-that are folded into the
land. The course, which opened in 1997, hosted
the 2000 World Amateur Team Championship to
great acclaim and was the site of the 1999 and
2000 German Open. The Sporting Club Berlin also
has a fine course designed by Arnold Palmer,
opened in 1995, with the back nine playing
through a forest, and a shorter course designed
by Eby, opened in 2002.
Golf and Country Club Seddiner See (South Course) - Germany
Seddiner See's South Course is one of the premier
new courses in Germany, located along the shores of
Seddiner Lake some 25 minutes south of Berlin, near
the towns of Neuseddin and Wildenbruch. The only
course in Germany designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr.,
the South Course opened in 1994, followed by the
North Course in 1997. Built at a cost of over 20
million Euros, no expense was spared, with a lavish
clubhouse and impeccably conditioned fairways and
greens. The course is relatively flat, but Jones
defined the fairways with curved water hazards,
hives of large swirling bunkers, and borders of
birch and tall flaxen grasses.
Berlin Sporting Club (Nick
Faldo Course) and Golf and Country Club Seddiner See (South
Course), Germany
