Budersand - Germany's first 18 holes seaside links course

[Scott Warren]

Thanks Christoph, much appreciated.

[Jason McNamara]

Scott, I was futzing around on the Deutsche Bahn website, and there just isn't an easy trip.  Almost every trip is minimum three connections, unless you go via Hamburg, but that takes an extra 2+ hrs.

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/d
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

There are also puddle jumpers (Pfuetzenspringer?) from Hamburg to Sylt, a 50-minute flight, but by the time you mess with taxis/S-Bahn, airport security, etc., you wouldn't save any time.

[Sean_A]

Cristoph

Thanks for the pix.  I am amazed that an archie would design something like this by moving loads of dirt.  For the most part its very subtle and quite unusual in this way.  The only aspects which stick out are the holes with what looks like dune walls on the edges (I assume these block out nasty views?) and the odd clumps of grass which really act to accentuate the mounding.  Is it hoped that someday that grass will spread?  If so, are the fairways wide enough for such penal rough?  If not, why has the archie chosen to accentuate the areas which stand out as man made? 

Ciao

[Christoph Meister]

Scott, I was futzing around on the Deutsche Bahn website, and there just isn't an easy trip.  Almost every trip is minimum three connections, unless you go via Hamburg, but that takes an extra 2+ hrs.

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/d
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

There are also puddle jumpers (Pfuetzenspringer?) from Hamburg to Sylt, a 50-minute flight, but by the time you mess with taxis/S-Bahn, airport security, etc., you wouldn't save any time.

The three changes are at small railway stations and not very dificult...there is no use going from Copenhagen through Hamburg to Sylt, as you say that's at least two hours more....the small plane
is very quick but expensive...Westerland is a very small airport and with no gangway's...

[Christoph Meister]

Cristoph

Thanks for the pix.  I am amazed that an archie would design something like this by moving loads of dirt.  For the most part its very subtle and quite unusual in this way.  The only aspects which stick out are the holes with what looks like dune walls on the edges (I assume these block out nasty views?) and the odd clumps of grass which really act to accentuate the mounding.  Is it hoped that someday that grass will spread?  If so, are the fairways wide enough for such penal rough?  If not, why has the archie chosen to accentuate the areas which stand out as man made? 

Ciao

The dune walls are surrounding large parts of the golf course area and have been there before as one might see from the two pictures showing the area before construction work started. They are typical for the island. Direction village they hide some nasty views as you call it, but surrounding holes 5 and 6 and on the left hand side of 14 they are just hiding nature reserves and other dunes...

Those golfers I spoke to who have also played Budersand said that at the moment they most feared the bunkers. This probably means that the fairways are wide enough and the penal rough only comes into play when you are really off the track....Would be interesting to know what the architect says to your remarks...

Regards,


Christoph

[Christoph Meister]

Cristoph

Thanks for the pix.  I am amazed that an archie would design something like this by moving loads of dirt.  For the most part its very subtle and quite unusual in this way.  The only aspects which stick out are the holes with what looks like dune walls on the edges (I assume these block out nasty views?) and the odd clumps of grass which really act to accentuate the mounding.  Is it hoped that someday that grass will spread?  If so, are the fairways wide enough for such penal rough?  If not, why has the archie chosen to accentuate the areas which stand out as man made? 

Ciao

Sean,

I will try to explain:

The architect chose to plant more than 100.000 pieces of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) in order to quickly stabilize the newly designed manmade dunes. These dunes are purely made up of sand without any organic substances. This way the deep-growing beach grass roots by rhizomes will protect the sparse habitat from erosion and will then be fed with mineral substances from the dune sand. As an additional effect weight of foliage will develop during growth though increasing the organic weight in the sand. 

This way the Festuca grass will slowly migrate into these areas and mix up with the beach grass. The Dunes will then mingle with the rough and as time passes by these areas will then not stick out as much as they do now.

So the architect started a natural succession of dune formation even accelerated by plantation. Additionally 7.500 pieces of gorse (Ulex europaeus), 5.000 pieces of lyme grass(Leymus arenarius) and 1.250 pieces of burnet roses (Rosa pimpinellifolia) were planted. Also smaller surfaces amounting to 1,7ha were transplanted into larger surfaces of heather vegetation.

I think this all explains well the current situation at Budersand and gives an idea about the amount of work involved in order to change this piece
of land into a rather nice golf course.

[Jamie Barber]

From the pictures, I think they've done a great job. I particularly like the clean lines of the bunkers.