Golfgarten Deutsche Weinstrasse

The Golfgarten Deutsche Weinstrasse – name says it all – is situated in the middle of the wine region Pfalz between Grünstadt and Bad Dürkheim. Founded 1995 it was expanded in 2004 to 27 holes, a new clubhouse and a 6 hole practice course was built. All holes have the name of a wine sort, thus demonstrating the wine heritage of the region.

The name “golf garden” is taken literally, over 2000 fruit trees are ligning the fairways and greens, so your round catering is growing around you. All this doesn’t have the aboriginal character as at GC Reischenhof which we played a couple of days earlier. You can enjoy the view you have around the course with all the vineyards bordering the course and fairways, the course itself is pretty boring to play. All holes play like an autobahn straight ahead, little uphill, little downhill but nothing exciting or something that makes you think about game strategy or club selection. We played the C-A-combination of the course, it felt like playing a Mickey Mouse course, most of the par 4′s are shorter than 300m, one par 3 is only 90m, the longest hole is the 20th hole, a 535m par 5. The complementary birdie book isn’t really needed at all.

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