This is the land of Fjords, Viking Expeditions, extremely complicated mythology and religions that predate Christianity. Associated with the all powerful Norse Gods like Odin and Thor this is the land first peopled as early as the tenth millennium BC Welcome to Norway, home of the northernmost golf courses in the world. Even though Norway has just a little less than two dozen top quality courses, one golf tour would still not be enough to catch them all.

A country steeped in history and some breathtaking geography, Norway boasts of a rich cultural heritage and a very progressive, contemporary outlook to life. These are two chief reasons for a very healthy tourism industry in Norway, add to that the captivating natural landscape and you have tourists lining up at the numerous ski resorts. But the very features that attract wintertime tourists to Norway create a wonderful demesne for golf in the summer months. (more…)

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Location - Turisthotellvegen,
Lillehammer

Details - The Radisson SAS Lillehammer Hotel is a palatial property scenically set in an eight acre private park, 600 metres from the town centre and train station…..

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Designer:  Jeremy Turner
Established:
Location: Lofoten Golf Club, Hov,
Gimsoysand, 8314,
Lofoten, Norway
Type: Parkland
Length: 31 9 holes 1986 m (back tee), 1816 m (yellow), 1559 m (red)
Green Fees: 18 holes/12 hours NOK 250/300 or 300/400 during Midnight Sun period

Website:
www.lofoten-golf.no  
 
Phone:
Fax:
Facilities:  Clubhouse with simple overnight accommodation, cafe, pro-shop, driving range, putting green, practice area, trolley hire.

The Lofoten Islands are breathtakingly beautiful. Alpine mountains rise majestically from the ocean to a height of almost 1,000 metres, fringed by chalk-white beaches and separated by swathes of green. The sea is crystal clear and teeming with fish. Here you can try your hand at deep-sea fishing, scuba diving, kayaking or go on a whale safari. Amidst all this activity at Hov on Gims¸y is Lofoten Golf Links, as unassuming a 9-hole course as the pioneering spirit behind it. But its proximity to the ocean, the jagged mountains and ever-shifting Arctic light make this more than just a round of golf. Few, if any, golf courses offer such a combination of golf and magnificent scenery. Thomas Hagdeldt of Golf Digest Sweden (no.3, 2004) described it thus: The links are as remote as those at Ballyliffin and Royal Dornoch. They were built on land that at sometime in the distant past was created so that some golfer or other would finally realise its true purpose. Around the greens there are bunkers, rocks, seaweed and sea. More recently, Lofoten Golf Links was discovered by Jeff Klein of the New York Times who waxed lyrical about the course over three pages under the heading Golf in Norway, the Land of the Midnight Tee Time (NYT, 7 August 2005). For Klein had experienced playing golf under the Midnight Sun. From mid-May to early August you can play golf at Lofoten round-the-clock. Thats 144 holes in 24 hours if you can stay awake, that is!

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Amateur wins (1)
1996 Norwegian Amateur Championship

Team appearances

Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Norway): 1996

Professional
World Cup (representing Norway): 2001

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Amateur career
Suzann Pettersen was a successful amateur golfer. She is a five-time Norwegian Amateur Champion (1996-2000) and won the British Girls Championship in 1999. She represented Norway in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship in 1998 and 2000, becomng World Amateur Champion in her second appearance. She also represented Europe in the 1997 and 1999 Junior Ryder Cup Matches.

Professional career
Pettersen turned professional in September 2000 and gained her LET Tour card with an 11th place finish at the 2001 LET Qualifying School. In her 2001 Ladies European Tour rookie season she played in ten events without missing a cut and won the French Open in only her second start as a professional after beating Becky Morgan in a playoff. She finished second on the Order of Merit and was named LET Rookie of the Year.

Pettersen started 2002 with a playoff loss to Karrie Webb in the AAMI Australian Women’s Open and two more top ten finishes led to her winning a place on the European team for the 2002 Solheim Cup. In the singles, Suzann was five down with five to play and rescued a half point for Europe against Michelle Redman, who performed one of the most dramatic collapses in Matchplay history. On the 18th green on live TV after her comeback, she accidentally offered a four-letter swear word while being interviewed by NBC’s Roger Maltbie. She tied for 10th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 2003 LPGA season.

In 2003 Pettersen played in 5 events on the LET missing no cuts and finished runner-up to Sophie Gustafson at the HP Open. She played a full rookie season on the LPGA, her best finish being a third at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship. She was a captain’s pick for the 2003 Solheim Cup and recorded an impressive 4-1-0 record as a member of the victorious European Team.

In 2004 Pettersen played in just four events on the LET with a best finish of T9 at the Evian Masters. On the LPGA, Suzann began her season late after recuperating from elbow surgery. She recorded four top-10 finishes including a season-best tie for fifth at the State Farm Classic.

In 2005 Suzann played in only three events on the LET and nine events on the LPGA due to a debilitating back injury. When she came back her best LPGA finish was a sixth at the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic and she finished tied for second at the Ladies Finnish Masters. She registered a 2-0-2 record as a captain’s pick on the European Solheim Cup Team and played for the International team at the inaugural Lexus Cup.

In 2006 Pettersen played 5 times on the LET recording two top ten finishes including a third place at the Scandanavian TPC. On the LPGA tour she had 3 top ten finishes with a season’s best of fifth at the Florida’s Natural Charity Championship.

At the start of 2007, Pettersen was selected to represent Norway at the Women’s World Cup of Golf but withdrew due to illness before the event started. At the Safeway International she recorded her then best finish on the LPGA Tour, a 2nd place, two strokes behind Lorena Ochoa and a late meltdown at the Kraft Nabisco saw her equal that finish, her second best at a major. Pettersen became the first Norwegian LPGA winner at the 2007 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, beating Jee Young Lee in a playoff. Pettersen followed up this win by capturing the second major championship of 2007, the LPGA Championship, by one stroke over Karrie Webb which moved her up to fourth in the Women’s World Golf Rankings. On the Ladies European Tour she won the SAS Masters in her native Norway.[22] October 2007 was a very successful month for Pettersen. At the Longs Drugs Challenge she won her third LPGA victory, beating Lorena Ochoa in a playoff, whilst her Asian trip saw her collect wins number four and five in Korea and Thailand. On December 31, 2007, Pettersen reached the number two position in the Women’s World Golf Rankings, surpassing Karrie Webb and Annika Sörenstam.

In January 2008 Pettersen signed a multi-year agreement with Nike Golf, and will represent Nike in clubs, balls, footwear, glove and bag.

Professional wins (7)

Ladies European Tour (2)
2001 (1) French Ladies Open
2007 (1) SAS Masters

LPGA Tour (5)
2007 (5) Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, LPGA Championship, Longs Drugs Challenge, Hana Bank-KOLON Championship, Honda LPGA Thailand
LPGA Majors are shown in bold

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Designer:  Fred
Smith/Jeremy Turner
Established:
Location: Golfsenteret Vestfold AS
P.B. 13, 3108 Vear,
Norway
Type: Parkland
Length: 72 6414 m (back tee), 5979 m (yellow), 5877 (red)
Green Fees: Weekday/Weekend NOK 400/450

Website:

www.vestfoldgolfklubb.no 
 
Phone: 333 62505
Fax:
Facilities:  18-hole championship course, 9-hole course (slope rated), 3 practice greens, Short game training area, 6-hole pitch and putt, Driving range, Club house, restaurant and proshop

Vestfold Golf Club was founded in 1958 and is one of the oldest 18-hole clubs in Norway. The present day championship course was fully modernised to US PGA standards in 2002 based on a design by the wily Jeremy Turner. This compact forest/parkland course is often reminiscent of a bit of England (probably due to the scattered mighty oaks, charming biotopes and George Beal, club pro for the past 25 years!). After the upgrade the course took on a whole new character with a fine combination of forest holes and mature parkland in a rhythmically undulating landscape, and as with most forest courses, vertical hazards abound. In 2003, Norsk Golf ranked Vestfold among the top three courses in Norway. The club hosted the Challenge Tour in 2004.

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Designer:  Tommy Nordstrm
Established:
Location: Borre Golfklubb
3186 Horten
Horten
Norway
Type: Parkland
Length: 72/73 6925 m (back tee), 6498 m (yellow), 5325 (red))
Green Fees: Weekday/Weekend NOK 400/450

Website:
www.borregb.no/
 
Phone: +47 - 41 62 70 00
Fax:
Facilities:  Old 9-hole course (stroke rated), driving range,
full practice area, club house with changing rooms/shower, cafe, restaurant,
hire of trolleys, buggies and clubs, proshop, and tennis courts for the
really sporty types!

This 18-hole international standard course designed by Swedish architect Tommy Nordstrm is highly challenging and satisfies all expectations of a top class parkland/forest layout. The championship course is located on the venerable Semb estate (Semb was the main Viking seat in Vestfold though archaeological finds go back 5000 years), close to the attractive Borre lake and Horten, Norways very own silicon valley.

Borre has recently undergone a full upgrade, adding a new back nine to the best of the old course leaving a worthy par 36 9-hole facility as added value. The new ninth ends at a refreshment hut (self-service weekdays, grilled sausages at weekends) where there is a highly civilised compulsory 10-minute break! Hole 10 strikes off into an undulating forestscape with natural water obstacles, serious bunkers and deep ravines. Sloppy fairway drives are seldom rewarded at Borre.

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Designer:  Robert A. Hunt
Established:
Location: Meland Golfclub
N-5918 Frekhaug
Norway
Type: Fjordside Forest Course
Length: 73 6203 m (back tee), 5979 m (yellow), 4255 m (red)
Green Fees: Weekday/Weekend NOK 400/500

Website:
www.melandgolf.no
Phone: +47 56 17 46 00
Fax: +47 56 17 77 22
Facilities:  20 bay driving range, putting & chipping green, practice bunker, PGA professional, VAT free pro-shop, lockers & changing facilities, showers, trolley hire, club hire, buggy hire, cafe/restaurant

Europes toughest course? Its called Meland, its in Norway and it only measures 6541 yards! Thus teed off an article in The World of Golf that turned heads in, well, the world of golf. The author continued: If recent majors have taught us anything it is that in the eyes of The Masters Committee, the USGA, the R&A and the PGA of America, longer rough and harder greens equal increased difficulty. Flying in the face of this thinking is Meland golf club, a championship course just outside Bergen in Norway. Opened in 1999, the layout was recently assessed and given a new stroke rating of 151 from its back tees. No other European course can compete with this (the highest possible rating is 155) and thus Melands par-73 course has been crowned Europes hardest test. The challenge lies in the mental aspects of the game, explains head pro Anders Liesen. The playing area is fairly generous but nearly every hole runs through a corridor of trees and creates problems in the mind. Eurogolfer added in 2004: Truly one of the most challenging and best golf experiences in Europe. Highly recommended! So theres nothing more to say. Its simply a matter of slapping 50
euros on the table and treating yourself to the most challenging test in Europe!

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Designer:  Jan Sederholm
Established:
Location: Larvik Golfbane AS
Fritze Grd
3267 LARVIK
Type: Parkland
Length: 72 6235 m (back tee), 5848 m (yellow), 5093 (red)
Green Fees: Weekday/Weekend NOK 400/450

Website:
www.larvikgolf.no
Phone: 33 140 140
Fax: 33 140 149
Facilities:  Short hole course, driving range, full practice area, club house with changing rooms/shower, cafe, restaurant, club hire,
trolley hire, pro-shop. The club also has a fully restored guesthouse for rent, with 6 twin rooms (3 en-suite), large well-equipped kitchen, dining
room and lounge.

Fritze Grd Golf Park, home to Larvik Golf Club, is located due south of Larvik at the mouth of the Oslo fjord, along with the Larvik Golf Academy, an exciting short-hole course that forms part of the training facility here. Peugot Golf Guide ranks this international standard arkland/seaside course among the best in Europe, in competition with the likes of Valderrama, St. Andrews and Royal Mougins: Youll always remember this course as a large beautiful park with views of the fjord at every touch and turn. Larvik is undoubtedly one of the best courses in Norway. If you ever get the chance to play it, then carpe diem. Liberally sprinkled with large fairway bunkers, as is Swedish golf course architect Jan Sederholms wont, Larvik has links-like characteristics and an unusual combination of six par 5, six par 4 and six par 3 holes. That, together with some clever use of natural water obstacles and unforgiving rough makes for some rather challenging golf. But then again, who said taking on the challenge of nature was easy?

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