GOLF HOLIDAYS - STRASBOURG & KEMPFERHOF
The best courses for Alsace Lorraine golfbreaks.

Tucked away down a country lane on the banks of the Rhine, Kempferhof is enveloped in thick forest that shrouds it from the noise and glare of the outside world, creating a stealthy little world of golf on the Franco-German border.  Here you can play (and stay) in total tranquillity on a course that has been masterfully carved out of centuries old woodland.  An exceptional golfing hideout.

One of Bernhard Langer's rare creations and being so close to Germany has many members from across the border (where the going is a lot hillier), most from the spa town of Baden-Baden.  Soufflenheim is an up-market residential project, but thankfully the (rather plush) houses are only around the Clubhouse and the course soon stretches away into the calm of the impenetrable forest.  To aid golfing progress through the woodland there are several large clearings: however a substantial portion of these open areas have been filled with water creating several large lakes to hinder your golfing progress/prowess!

Strasbourg is a traditional members Golf Club that welcomes visitors midweek and occasionally at weekends.  The Club has 27 holes of well designed pure parkland golf over level land with varied species of tree lining each Fairway and defining the shape of each hole.  The original 18 (Blanc + Jaune) has a little water in play at the far extremity of the course, elsewhere good Fairway bunkering provides food for thought on many shots.  The newer 9 (Rouge) has more water and more trees (but a little less sand!).

A seemingly gentle course at the outset but one that slowly increases the pressure as you progress around the course.  The back-nine are as tough a test of golf as you will find anywhere with practically every hole bedevilled by water to skirt or traverse at some point along its length: a great design.  Easy to walk too as the terrain is perfectly flat, so (if you have any balls left) why not play 36?  Warm and welcoming atmosphere in the cavernous old Alsatian manor-house that these days forms the Clubhouse.

Other courses to consider

On an island in the Rhine: a unique setting for a very appealing course with water flowing all around.

If you would like to try your hand at German golf then a short incursion over the border will bring you to the very pretty spa town of Baden-Baden with its attractive, easy-going, golf course.

A good quality public course, on very, very hilly terrain, away to the South of Strasbourg amongst the vineyards of Alsace so some nice views from the upper holes and close to pretty Colmar.  Don't even think about walking it!!!