Golf Club St. Leon-Rot
| Golf Club St. Leon-Rot | |
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| Coordinates: | 49 ° 14 '45.1 " N , 8 ° 38' 11.7" E |
| Playable since: | 1997 |
| Architect: | Dave Thomas |
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| Length: | 6,541 m in St. Leon and 6,587 m in red |
The St. Leon-Rot Golf Club in St. Leon-Rot is one of around 750 golf clubs in Germany. It was founded in 1997 by the entrepreneur Dietmar Hopp and has hosted the European golf championships Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe several times . There is also an official performance center of the German Golf Association here .
Golf course
The 6,541 m long golf course in St. Leon was designed by the British golfer and architect Dave Thomas , which is why it resembles Scottish and Irish courses in some places . Hole 18 of the square was the final track of the Deutsche Bank / SAP Open in 2002 .
At the Rot course designed by the architect Hannes Schreiner , the golf course was integrated into the existing floodplain landscape so that numerous biotopes were preserved. Since 2001, the 6,587 meter course has often received the Golf Journal Travel Award as “Best Golf Course in Germany” . In the eyes of the publishers of the golf magazine, hole 9 is one of the "Top 500 holes in the world". The facility also has a children's and a short course .
At the end of 2012, the golf course was declared a state performance center by the Baden-Württemberg Golf Association .
Conservation concerns
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The construction of the golf course was made as environmentally friendly as possible. The fertilization is carried out in an environmentally friendly manner. Pheasants , hares, deer and storks live on the site . Since the facility was built without fences, it can be used for local recreation for people from the region. In 2013 the golf club received the DGV gold plaque due to the environmental concept .
Events
In the past few years, the St. Leon-Rot Golf Club has hosted over 3,000 national and international tournaments. The golf club achieved international fame in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2004 when the renowned Deutsche Bank / SAP Open golf tournament was held there, in which golfers such as Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood and Colin Montgomerie took part.
In September 2015, the Solheim Cup 2015 was held on the club's premises , with the club also acting as an organizer. The continental comparison of female professional golfers between Europe and the USA took place for the first time in Germany. The United States won.
Allianz Golf Arena
The Allianz Golf Arena was opened on November 7, 2011 to enable players to practice all year round. The hall is heated in winter and offers 1,700 square meters of space for exercise units for up to 30 people over two levels.
Web links
- Homepage of the golf club on gc-slr.de
- Homepage Golfland Rhein-Neckar
- Golf Club St. Leon-Rot on golf.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmuth Bischoff, Gisela Atteln: DuMont travel paperback travel guide Rhein-Neckar. Dumont Reiseverlag , Cologne 2014, ISBN 3-770-18967-1 , p. 34.
- ↑ GC St. Leon-Rot ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Golf Team Germany .
- ^ Golf course architect Dave Thomas died on gc-slr.de, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ↑ St. Leon-Rot is a state performance center, Olympic golf requires structural reforms ( memento of the original from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , green-news.eu, December 9, 2012
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- ↑ Sven Beckedahl: "Taiga Pig is a real star" on welt.de from May 19, 2001, accessed on February 7, 2015.
- ^ Lewine Mair: Deutsche Bank SAP Open: Master stroke reflects dominance of Woods , telegraph.co.uk of May 20, 2001, accessed on February 7, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Alex Cejka good, but not good enough on faz.net from May 23, 2004, accessed on February 7, 2015.
- ^ D. Krick, Solheim Cup 2015: Friendly takeover with taste , Spiegel Online, November 12, 2012
- ↑ Solheim Cup 2015 - Event Info ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
