Royal Copenhagen Golf Club

The Royal Copenhagen Golf Club is situated in Dyrehaven, which is a national park established by the Danish King Christian V in the late 17th century. The Royal Copenhagen Golf Club is situated in an area of the park from where you have a beautiful view of Hermitage Castle (Eremitageslottet) and quite often a lot of free running deer. As a crown prince, the Danish King Christian V went hunting in France with King Louis XIV, also called the Sun King. Inspired by this experience he had Dyrehaven laid out, so that the grounds could accommodate the special and noble parforce form of hunting. In the process, the village of Stokkerup and the neighboring fields were demolished. The golf course follows the natural rolling country side from a time when the area was farmland. The course was designed by a, still to date, unknown Scottish architect and established in 1928. In 2009 Tom Mackenzie, also a Scotsman, re-designed the golf course and made it more up-to-date and still very integrated...