Keilir Golf Club - Iceland

Golf in Iceland is a sort of Nordic version of golf in Hawaii, with treeless courses laid out through floes of black lava. Keilir Golf Club, in the little fishing village of Hafnarfjordur, about a 15-minute drive from Reykjavik, is one of the finest of the1ava courses. Established in 1967, the course was built on rolling farmland along the ocean. In 1994, nine holes were added which playas the front nine, through the 1,000-year-old Kapelluhraun, or Chapel Lava Fields. A new clubhouse was also built overlooking the Atlantic in 1993. Across the bay is the Snaefellsjokull volcano and the Snaefells Glacier, the site of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Mid Ocean Golf Club - Bermuda

Mid Ocean Golf Club is the crown jewel of golf in Bermuda, designed by the first great American golf course architect, Charles Blair Macdonald, in 1924. Located in Tuckerstown, the course begins and ends by the ocean, but the character of Mid Ocean is that of a striking inland layout rather than a traditional Scottish links. The course is laid out through coral hills forested with cedars, casuarinas, pines, oleander, hibiscus, and bougainvillea, with forced carries over marshy wetlands. The most famous hole is the fifth, which is one of the world's great "Cape" holes, that is, a hole where the golfer is challenged to bite off as much of the diagonal carry across the hazard as he dares. In this case, the golfer drives from an elevated tee across Mangrove Lake, with the elongated green tucked back against the corner of the lake.