Københavns Golf Klub

Overview: Københavns Golf Klub is an 18-hole parkland course inside Jægersborg Dyrehaven, the historic royal deer park north of Copenhagen. The current course was laid out in 1928 by an unidentified Scottish architect and later updated by Tom Mackenzie. Its fairways run across open Eremitageslette and through ancient woodland, with fallow deer, red deer, natural grassland and wind-exposed ground forming a setting unlike a conventional suburban course. The directory lists par 71 and approximately 6,643 yards. The challenge is based on placement and reading the land, with tree lines and small green complexes shaping the route.

History: Copenhagen Golf Club was founded in 1898 as Scandinavia's first golf club. The early players began with a nine-hole course in 1899 before moving to the present Dyrehaven setting, where the 18-hole course was inaugurated in 1928. Course work in 2009 changed parts of the layout, but the club says 16 holes still retain largely the same routing as the historic course. This continuity, together with the protected landscape of Dyrehaven, gives the course an unusually direct link between early Scandinavian golf and the modern game.

Did You Know? Golf is played among herds of fallow deer and red deer in Jægersborg Dyrehaven. The animals are not a decorative theme added by the club: they are part of the protected landscape that surrounds the fairways and open grassland. A round at Københavns therefore takes place inside a royal deer park with centuries of history before the golf club itself was formed.