Interesting.. Can you imagine if they used the same approach when building skyscrapers?cphdude said:
How come they are allowed to use "royal" in the name? What kind of relation does it have to the royal family?
PROJECT | Royal Copenhagen Golf Center | Ørestad | Completed
As tournesol mentioned in the Ørestad thread, they are planing a golfcourse in Ørestad. Well, today berlingske reports that all the permits have been given and the construction started last week. They have also spoken to the devoloper, who talks about his plans.
First up, we are not just talking about a little normal course. They plan to build a course that can compete with the best of them. The ambition is to be a regular feature on the european tour, and to host the Ryder Cup in 2018.
Only one guy is behind it all, and he insist on building the best course he can, with no compromises and then worry about the cost later. To start of, he has hired one of the best golfarchitects, Ron Kirby, to design the course. He is the man behind Gleneagles, the host of the 2014 ryder cup.
The court will be build to meet the international standarts, and be a so-called Target-course. Dont ask me what it is, but it has something to do with the design. It does mean that the audience capacity will be 30-40.000, without problems for the players. Since the court is being build fra new, it means that they are able to draw all the tv cables needed underground, and that they will build a helicopter pad on the roof of the clubhouse, just in case Tiger Woods is in a hurry.
The court, at 120 HA, will have 7 lakes, and more then a million tons of durt will have to be moved around to make elevated greens. The combined lenght of the course will be 6.545 meters.
The course will open in steps, the first one being the drivingrange with 72 stalls in glass and steel, a locker room with cafe and tv lounge. This is expected to open in april 2006. About 1 year later, in april 2007, a 9 hole course will open.
And finaly, on the 1st of August 2009, the 18 hole championship course will open. At the same time will be the opening of the new clubhouse, of 2600 m2, with a restaurant seating 600 people...And the helicopter pad i guess...
The Royal Copenhagen Golf Center will execpt members, but expect to pay up to 100.000 danish kroners to get in, and an anual fee of 15-20.000 kroners...
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http://www.royalcopenhagengolf.dk/
the article in Danish http://www.berlingske.dk/kobenhavn/artikel:aid=554300/
First up, we are not just talking about a little normal course. They plan to build a course that can compete with the best of them. The ambition is to be a regular feature on the european tour, and to host the Ryder Cup in 2018.
Only one guy is behind it all, and he insist on building the best course he can, with no compromises and then worry about the cost later. To start of, he has hired one of the best golfarchitects, Ron Kirby, to design the course. He is the man behind Gleneagles, the host of the 2014 ryder cup.
The court will be build to meet the international standarts, and be a so-called Target-course. Dont ask me what it is, but it has something to do with the design. It does mean that the audience capacity will be 30-40.000, without problems for the players. Since the court is being build fra new, it means that they are able to draw all the tv cables needed underground, and that they will build a helicopter pad on the roof of the clubhouse, just in case Tiger Woods is in a hurry.
The court, at 120 HA, will have 7 lakes, and more then a million tons of durt will have to be moved around to make elevated greens. The combined lenght of the course will be 6.545 meters.
The course will open in steps, the first one being the drivingrange with 72 stalls in glass and steel, a locker room with cafe and tv lounge. This is expected to open in april 2006. About 1 year later, in april 2007, a 9 hole course will open.
And finaly, on the 1st of August 2009, the 18 hole championship course will open. At the same time will be the opening of the new clubhouse, of 2600 m2, with a restaurant seating 600 people...And the helicopter pad i guess...
The Royal Copenhagen Golf Center will execpt members, but expect to pay up to 100.000 danish kroners to get in, and an anual fee of 15-20.000 kroners...
http://www.royalcopenhagengolf.dk/
the article in Danish http://www.berlingske.dk/kobenhavn/artikel:aid=554300/
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Wow. Golf is really becomming huge in Denmark. My dad said about 11 years ago before we moved to Canada, Denmark only had like 10 golfcourses which were all 9-hole courses .. that was it ... Now there are over 150 golf courses in Denmark where, if i remember correctly, about 90% of them are 18-whole courses
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Theres also another 18-whole golf course being designed by a world famous golfcourse-architect, Robert Trent Jones jr, whos designed more than 200 golfcourses in 38 different countries. He's designing 'Skjoldenæsholm Golfbane' which is planned to be finished within sometime 2006.
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Anyways, back to the topic... Great news
Ørestad is really turning out wonderful!
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Theres also another 18-whole golf course being designed by a world famous golfcourse-architect, Robert Trent Jones jr, whos designed more than 200 golfcourses in 38 different countries. He's designing 'Skjoldenæsholm Golfbane' which is planned to be finished within sometime 2006.
Anyways, back to the topic... Great news
Ørestad is really turning out wonderful!
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Yupcphdude said:
Just found a site with a few renderings of how the driving range might look:
The Service Building
The club house... The pic is a little small, but its the only one I could fine.
I think it would get a lot more business though if it was in the city. People are very lazy now-a-days and a lot of them don't want to drive 20km to play golf. I like the location though. It's nice for Copenhagen to have a little bit of nature around itstaff said:
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