Wednesday, 29. September 2010
19:20 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – The Tour Championship in Atlanta, GA
20:20 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – Vivendi Cup in Paris
20:50 Eurosport, Golf Club

Do 30. September 2010
23:00 Eurosport 2, Long Drive Europafinale 2010 in Paris

Saturday, 2. October 2010
10:15 SPORT1, Golf Journal
11:05 SPORT1, Audi Golf News
19:00 SPORT1, Golf Journal
19:50 SPORT1, Audi Golf News

So often I surfed throught the various golf groups on flickr! admiring the brilliant golf course pictures there. Or Golf Punk’s double page named Golf Porn. Stunning pictures of gorgeous golf landscapes.

Almost on all golf rounds played I had a camera with me. Often there was this picturesque view and lighting, but my tiny Canon IXUS never lived up to the real experience. A couple of months ago we went for the upgrade and bought a Nikon D5000, a digital SLR camera. I never took it to the golf course, because it was too big to carry around and didn’t fit in my small golf bag.

Last saturday though I carried it with me to our Royal Benzinger tournament and took pictures before and after the tournament. We had very mixed weather, high winds, rain, sun, cloudy skies, but towards the evening it calmed down and for some minutes we had perfect lightning that helped bring out the best in the Prenden golf course. And with a “real” camera I was able to take pictures into the direct back light. Although they are only my first steps into real golf photography, I love the results. But still, patience is key!

Monday, 20. September 2010
23:45 SPORT1, Audi Golf News

Wednesday, 22. September 2010
18:20 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – Austrian Open in Wien
18:50 Eurosport, Ladies European Tour – Open de España Femenino in Benahavís
19:00 Eurosport, Golf Club

Congratulations to Martin Kaymer on winning the KLM Open. This is Martins second consecutive win, his third this season and furthermore, the fifth title in a row won by a European Tour Ryder Cup member. I cannot wait for the Ryder Cup to start!

Wednesday, 15. September 2010
20:55 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston-Norton, MA
21:55 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – BMW Championship in Lemont, IL
22:55 Eurosport, Ladies European Tour – Finnair Masters in Helsinki-Tali (FIN)
23:05 Eurosport, Ladies European Tour – Open de France Fémin in Paris-Baillet
23:45 Eurosport, Golf Club

Saturday, 18. September 2010
10:15 SPORT1, Golf Journal
11:05 SPORT1, Audi Golf News
19:00 SPORT1, Golf Journal
19:50 SPORT1, Audi Golf News

Link: www.youtube.com

Last week I was attending a conference at the Dorint Golf & Spa Windhagen / Siebengebirge, some 30 minute drive outside of Cologne. Somehow I had my golf clubs with me and surprisingly, the hotel was adjacent to a golf course belonging to the Golfclub Waldbrunnen.

The layout of the course is kind of funny, as it is separated by the city of Hallerbach:

So, leaving the 7th green you have a 10 minute walk ahead of you through the village before you reach the 8th tee. We only played nine holes, so the recommended schedule was 1-7 and 17-18 to bring us back to the hotel. My playing partner Walter – a 9.7 handicapper – had played the course a couple of times before and was helpful with advice around the course. This came in very helpful as the course is situated on some quite hilly terrain that requires some blind shots and good ball placement.

Judging by the nine holes we played, the course is really interesting. Uphill, downhill, hazard, tree-lines, 90° doglegs, the course gave you always something to think about. The funniest thing happened on the third hole. I pushed my tee shot right and it landed on the fringe of the second green. From there I tried to hit a sandwedge over the treeline back into the third fairway, but I totally shanked the ball to the right where it flew right through 15 meters of forest without hitting a tree and landed five meters in front of the third green. How impossible a shot was that?

My favorite holes were #7 and #17. The seventh is the first par five and stretches some 472 meters of narrow fairway with sidehill lies towards a very well protected green. I played an 8, but I enjoyed it. The seventeenth - our eight – is a 120 meter par 3. No big deal one would say but the green is some 15 meters higher than the teebox. An interesting view of which I can only offer you a crappy iPhone picture, as I had no other camera with me.

With 27,00 € for nine holes on weekdays you are charged a fair price for the course. Practice facilities are not the most ample, but sufficient. When we played, the course was very wet. I cannot say much about the weather the days before or whether the course has a drainage problem, but apart from that, the condition of the course was very good.

Golfclub Waldbrunnen e.V. im Siebengebirge
Brunnenstrasse 11
53578 Windhagen
Telefon (02645) 8041
Telefax (02645) 8042
E-Mail: info@golfclub-waldbrunnen.de

Link: www.youtube.com

Thursday, 09.09.2010
23:00 Sport1, Golf Journal
23:20 Sport1, Audi Golf News
23:30 Sport1, Golf Journal

Just in diesem Moment in dem ich diese Zeilen schreibe, schlagen Freunde von mir auf dem Old Course in St. Andrews ab. Sie hatten heute morgen Glück, als Sie um 06:00 Uhr versuchten, eine Tee Time zu bekommen. Die Wartezeit bis jetzt haben sie sich mit einer Runde auf dem New Course vertrieben. Nicht die schlechteste Art, einen Golftag zu verbringen. Martin, Konny, Sarath, ich wünsche Euch viel Spaß, geniesst diese sicherlich einzigartige Runde!