Snowgolf

With the mild temperatures around (today we’ll have 8-12 degrees Celsius in Berlin), year round golfing isn’t really a problem anymore (global warming, anyone?). Golf on snow came out in the last couple of years as a special event in skiing regions in Austria and Switzerland. Meanwhile, you’ll find even permanent snowgolf courses like in Gstaad for example.

I will give it a shot at the Snowgolf World Championship 2007 in Abtenau, Austria as well as the Ice Open 2007 in Hamburg. The latter is a charity golf tournament, taking place at my home club Gut Kaden, host of the Deutsche Bank Players’ Championship.

n-tv’s report on the 2006 Snowgolf Classics in Abtenau

For those of you who’d like to take a more serious approach at snowgolf, there is only one place to go: the Ice Golf World Championships to be held in Uummannaq, Greenland. 600 km north of the Arctic Circle golfers from across the globe travel to a hard and extreme tournament for the coveted title of The World Ice Golf Championship. Extreme temperatures that can fall to minus 50º C with the wind-chill factor, players will face a challenge both physically and mentally. Organisers say that there is an unlikely risk of losing a ball to a polar bear. Let’s hope so.

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