Wittelsbacher Golf Club - Germany

Wittelsbacher Golf Club is located near the historic town of Neuberg on the Danube, some 40 or so miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Designed by Joan Dudok van Heel and opened in 1988, the course is one of understated elegance and subtle challenges, laid out over an estate that has been in the hands of the Wittelsbacher family, the former Royal House of Bavaria, for over 500 years. While the landscape is flat, the course is defended by more than 200 venerable oaks and lindens, as well as tentacled fairway bunkers and three water holes. From the course there are views of the 16th-century Griinau Castle. The president and paterfamilias of Wittelsbacher is His Royal Highness Prince Max of Bavaria, a keen golfer who is also a member of the Royal & Ancient, Pine Valley, Muirfield, and Royal St. George's. There are 26 elegantly furnished guestrooms in the modern clubhouse as well as a dormy house run by the club.

Frankfurter Golf Club - Germany

Frankfurter Golf Club has long been the gold standard of golf in Germany, located just three miles from the city center and near the Frankfurt airport. The club was founded in 1913, but the current course designed by Harry Colt, the greatest of English course architects, dates from 1928. Colt mastered the art of designing elegant, strategic parkland courses, and his understated genius is on display at Frankfurter as well as Falkenstein in Hamburg. Frankfurter is a heavily wooded and fairly hilly course, with eight particularly testing and on average lengthy par-fours. The course has staged the German Open on many occasions, although it is now considered too short for championship play. Henry Cotton won the first German Open held here in 1938 and Seve Ballesteros, Tony Jacklin, Graham Marsh, and Wayne Grady have all been winners at Frankfurter.