Falsterbo Golf Club - Sweden

Falsterbo Golf Club is one of the great links of Europe, located by the little seaside resort of Falsterbo,21 miles south of Malmo, Sweden's third city. The course, which dates from 1909, is spread over a small spear of ground that forms Land's End-the southernmost point of Sweden-with the Baltic on one side and the North Sea on the other. While a true links, with the fairways angled at different directions against the wind, several of the holes play over ponds and wet­lands. The green of the demanding 427-yard fourth is tucked behind the marsh and the par-three 11th plays across a pond to an island green. The back nine sweeps around the somber, old domed lighthouse. The green of the 16th hole marks the tip of Sweden, with the view over the Oresund to Denmark and of the second-longest suspension bridge in the world that links Malmo to Copenhagen. The 17th and 18th run along the narrow ridge of dune separating the course from the Baltic and back to the clubhouse.

Barseback Golf and Country Club - Sweden

Barseback Golf and Country Club, located about 30 miles up the western coast of Sweden from Malma, has two superb 18-hole courses. The Old Course, designed by the late Ture Bruce, opened in 1969, while the New Course designed by the English architect Donald Steel opened in 1989. The heart and soul of Barseback is the stretch of holes on the Old Course that play along the leaden sea through the rushy grasses and offer links golf at its finest. The New Course is sculpted through an imposing forest of pines. Barseback hosted the 2003 Solheim Cup, in which the European team led by Annika Sorenstam soundly defeated the US. Barseback has been selected to host the Solheim Cup again when the competition returns to Europe in 2007.