Ullna Golf Club, Sweden

 
 

Ullna Golf Club - Sweden

Ullna Golf Club is about an hour's drive outside of Stockholm, carved through the birch trees and wrapped around Lake Ullna. Founded in 1981, the course was designed by Sven Tumba, Sweden's greatest all-around sportsman, who played in four Olympics for the Swedish national hockey team during the 1950s and '60s. The course was created as a target-style design on the model of the American TPC courses with spectator mounds for viewing during tournaments (it has hosted events on both the men's and women's European Tours). Lake Ullna comes into play on many of the holes, starting with the island green on the par-three third and running the length of the 17th to a peninsula green at the finish. The lake is used in the winter by the ice yacht club of Stockholm as well as for skating, and across the lake is a man-made hill built for skiing.