Location: Garlstedt, Bremen, Germany | Ranking: #85
Designer: Bernhard von Limburger (1970) | Type: Forest Heathland | Green Fees: From €120
Editor’s Note: Club zur Vahr’s Garlstedt Course is Germany’s most demanding and most celebrated championship layout — at 7,319 yards, it is also one of the longest par 74s in world golf. Host of the German Open on the European Tour and the World Amateur Team Championship, it combines a vast northern German forest with heathland terrain of extraordinary natural quality. Bernhard von Limburger created a course of epic scale that demands length, accuracy and patience in equal measure.
Travel & Logistics
- Airport: Bremen (BRE) — 25 mins | Hamburg (HAM) — 1h
- Booking: clubzurvahr.de | Rating / Slope: 77.1 / 147
Championship Scorecard
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUT |
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 37 |
| Yards | 415 | 580 | 420 | 195 | 560 | 425 | 430 | 198 | 555 | 3,778 |
| Hole | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | IN | TOTAL |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 37 | 74 |
| Yards | 428 | 432 | 565 | 195 | 432 | 558 | 435 | 198 | 563 | 3,806 | 7,319 |
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Key Notes & 19th Hole
- The Scale: At 7,319 yards par 74, Club zur Vahr is one of the longest and highest-rated courses in Europe. Bring your A-game off the tee — the forest corridors are unforgiving of anything wayward.
- Bremen: One of northern Germany’s most atmospheric old cities — the Böttcherstrasse Art Nouveau quarter, the Schnoor medieval district and Germany’s oldest wine cellar (the Ratskeller, established 1405). Bremen hotels via Expedia →