Københavns Golf Klub was on a list of courses people wanted portraited here. I played the course a few days ago and will try and do my first photo tour on GCA. I will Update this thread the next couple of weeks.
The club is the oldest in Scandinavia, founded 1898, but the current course wasn't build until 1928. The course was designed by "The Grand Old Man" of danish golf, Frederik Dreyer and presumambly a well known british architect. I'm not sure why this is so uncertain but it's hard to look up as the clubhouse including the archives for both the Club and The Danish golf association was bombed during WW2 and burned to the ground! A few holes have been changed since then and the last few years Mackenzie & Ebert have restored the course and reshaped some of the greenareas, especially the fringes.
The place is truely unique, situated in the middle of the Queens deer park 20minutes from Copenhagen City Center. The deer park is the former hunting grounds of the royal family (since 1669) and is still packed with deer including on the golf course.
because of the heritage of the deer park the club has to go through a lenghtly process if they want to change anything including mowing lines, bunkers etc. There are no signs, trashcans, ballwashers or even benches on the course.
To get to the club house you have to pass a big gate that keeps the deer in the park
And walk what is often called the longest walk from parkinglot to the first tee, i can't say i've seen one longer!
The Club House is allso fenced to keep animals out.
The greens are predominantly Red Fescue and Bend grasses. In Denmark we have extremely tight environmental regulation, especially when it comes to golf courses. I'm not an expert, but i know that we are already tight and it is only getting worse (Better?).
More will follow tomorrow.