[Kai Hulkkonen]

I came across a nice piece of dunesland yesterday. The place is located on the Polish Baltic coast, on a very long sandy peninsula of about 2 kilometres wide (easy to see using Google Earth). Starting from the wind exposed beach, there is a tract of some 100 meters wide and several kilometres long with relatively modest dunes (never rising to more than 10 meters and partly covered by vegetation).  After the "flattish" part, however, the dunes get really steep and rise up to 40 meters high forming a continuous "spine" for the peninsula. High dunes are completely covered by native grasses and gnarled pine trees

Unfortunately, I couldn't reach big blowouts (is that a word?) which from a distance looked like the best part on the peninsula. One needs to get a Russian visa for that...

Has anyone ever seen the place?

I would be happy to share some bad photos if somebody told me how.

Kai

[Voytek Wilczak]

Kai - I grew up in Poland but never ventured so close to the Soviet border.

There is some great dunesland and heathland in Poland - I already pointed it out to Tom Doak - but I am not sure how much of it is developable.

Another issue is the lack of golfers - there are only so many Swedes and Germans willing to come over and play golf...

[ForkaB]

Voytek

There are huge numbers of young Poles working in Scotland these days.  When they make their fortune and go back home, those sites you talk about will be ripe to be filled by the hordes of wealthy golf converts!

[Kai Hulkkonen]

I know it wouldn't be easy to get any of that dunesland for development, but there sure is hundres of kilometres of it. On the other hand, lots and lots of condos are currently being built on Hel Peninsula (Voytek, you know the place), so you never know...

Point Rich makes is not that far off, really. Many will come back and many will have started playing while in UK. They are some half a million there already.

Also more courses being built. Here in the north, within 1 hour from Gdansk there are already 4 courses and project I'm on will the fifth. Also, some city driving ranges are being built.

[Voytek Wilczak]

Come on guys - you make me want to go back to Poland...

But seriously - I hope golf takes off in Poland. I used to play at First Warsaw Country Club every year when I visited my family there in the early 2000s.

Kai - please post some pics of Sand Valley in Paslek.

Not having seen the land, I can tell you that the name sounds real good - a cross between Sand Hills and Pine Valley...

[Tony_Muldoon]

Voytek

There are huge numbers of young Poles working in Scotland these days.  When they make their fortune and go back home, those sites you talk about will be ripe to be filled by the hordes of wealthy golf converts!

It's already happening, we have employed lots of  Polish guys in the last few years.  Last summer I was teeing off at Hainault Forrest, Upper (the east ends own Bethpage) which was the first municipal course outside of Scotland (Arch's Taylor/Hawtree) and the group ahead were Lithuanian and the ones behind were Polish.  You may have read about it in Timothy O'Grady's book "on Golf".  It's where the poor of east London get started on Golf and if it wasn't so poplar no one would move on to other courses - pictures soon.

[Sébastien Dhaussy]

Kai,

I learn recently how posting pics on the site, thanks to Scott Burroughs. Check your personnal message for a "posting pics" method.

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