Bad Kissingen Golf Club
The Bad Kissingen Golf Club , founded as early as 1910 in the spa town of Bad Kissingen , is the second oldest golf club in Bavaria and operates the oldest golf course in the Free State .
history
The Bad Kissingen golf club was founded on August 23, 1910 - together with a department for riders - as the "Bad Kissingen sports club". Two years earlier it had already been decided in a meeting with the state spa administration, the local representative of the Bavarian state government, that a golf course had to be created in Bad Kissingen because of the large number of golfing guests from Germany and abroad. Soon afterwards, the spa administration began buying land, although the state government did not issue its official approval until 1910. In 1911, the golfers separated from the riders in the “sports club” and started their own business. On July 18, 1911, the new golf course with nine holes was inaugurated on the federal road 287 to Euerdorf , designed by the Scottish golf professional Cuthbert Strachan Butchart , who has been in Berlin since 1911 , and the French golf expert MCL Levilly , secretary (Secrétaire) des Golf Club de Menton on the Côte d'Azur .
The course with a length of 2341 meters (2572 yards ) and a unit of 36 strokes was opened by the then Prime Minister of the South African Union , General Louis Botha (1862-1919), who had suggested the establishment of the golf club during his multiple spa stays. The Berlin magazine "Lawn-Tennis und Golf" wrote in August 1911 after the opening (excerpt): "The playing field has a total size of approx. 20 hectares , more than 90 acres , and is by nature with a delightful location and unforgettable atmospheres, especially favored by interesting differences in terrain. ” The golf club's sponsors included a. Etienne de Eliseieff , the Tsar's governor in Saint Petersburg , and Dr. Emanuel Nobel , the nephew of the physicist Alfred Nobel . Both also donated valuable trophies.
After the end of the Second World War , the American occupation forces confiscated the golf course for their own use. Only a few German golfers were admitted on workdays in the early 1950s. It was not until 1955 that the Germans were allowed to start playing again and at the end of the year the Americans cleared the golf course. Two years later (1957) the Bavarian golf championships took place on the course for the first time. In 1961 the course was expanded to twelve lanes, in 1967 15 lanes were playable and from 1969 there were 18 lanes.
In 1977 the golf club took over the course from the previous property owner, the Free State of Bavaria, under lease. In 1989 the course was adjusted from “Standard 70” to “ Par 70 ”, for which 18 neighboring landowners had to buy additional space to expand the course. In December 1999 the club members decided by an overwhelming majority to buy their golf course from the Free State and to take it over into ownership.
Today the 18-hole golf course extends over an area of 45 hectares , still in a park-like area directly on the Franconian Saale . Some railways even cross the Saale or run along it.
In 2010 the 750 members of the Bad Kissingen Golf Club celebrated its 100th anniversary, on the occasion of which the clubhouse was expanded and renovated once more.
literature
- Achim Maedler-Pietsch: Golf in Bad Kissingen , in: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen 801-2001, facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001. ISBN 3-929278-16-2
Web links
- Official website
- Current view via WebCam (archive.org) ( Memento from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Le Golf-Club de Menton - Whether it really is this person is not certain, but everything speaks for it; more about this on the discussion page .
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 4 ′ 6 ″ E