Has anyone experiences with outside Switzerland club memberships and playing in Switzerland? Thought about possibly joining a golf club in UK (somewhere in London) to get that problem sorted and then I would need to work on my HCP.
The only option I heard of near Zurich is Nuolen (not easy to reach without car).
Anyone has tips or recommendations?
Getting one is similar to Holland and Germany.
Public courses in Zh are oversubscribed.
I'm also interested in getting started again, am even contemplating getting a Kombi to haul the clubs round.
Oh and the season is short.
Cheers
Mick
I would also like to play golf in Switzeland. I have not yet been able to find a good course other than on google maps. Please let me know if more of us are interested in playing somewhere. I would gladly yell FORE!
The car you mention is the 2nd Problem , but I feel that I get this sorted easier than the issue that they do not let me on the course. Arghhhhhhhhhhh.
I am an avid golfer and try to get out as much as possible, I had the same problem as you have now when I first came to CH in '94. At the start I got around the problem by using the name of a mate who had the correct documentation then whilst on holiday in Aus I joined a golf club as a visiting(country) member handed in 5 cards and got a HPC cost me about 50 AUD. I also know a bunch of blokes who have a little computer knowledge and very good looking laminated cards from fictional golf clubs. Works a treat. If you need more info or need a playing partner please PM me. Cheers Brendan.
I am currently in London and here I can just go on every public course. That is far more practical. Thats why I thought I could get a HCP and a golf membership here easier and then just appear with these valuable papers in CH and continue playing.
Am a bit curious on how you guys think. In sweden we have to take a course and play for surely on year without getting an official handicap, after that we start at 36. This is mostly for security reasons, you dont want to have someone on the course that doesnt know the rules and can hit a ball mostly strait ( perhaps not always). Why should switzerland be any different, get a real HCP, you will be happy, the golfcourse will be happy, even your grandmothers (?) will be happy. Dont cheat, be neat!
They are in Sweden and you get a HCP Certificate.
My target is not to cheat with my HCP, I just need it to get on the golf course and get practice and have some fun. Just the idea that I have to play tournaments is not what my idea of fun is.
See below for german.
The question is whether anyone tried this one in CH, i.e. if they let me on the golf course in CH with that one (HCP and membership)?
Dont get me wrong I do not condone cheating but the first time I tried to play golf in CH I was playing off about 15 and was a bit shocked when I was not allowed to play on a course here without giving out an outrages sum of money for lessons and theory courses to pass the greencard test. I even offered to hire a pro to watch me hit some balls to see if he thought I was good enough to play on the course. In Aus and I am fairly sure most of the golfing world we play social golf where we learn the game, rules and do's and dont's of a golf course.
Cheers og har de bra.
I decided to take their offer of a complete beginners course (I had never really hit a golf ball before) -- this covers everything from beginning on the putting green ; the Etikette and Regeln course (and Test !!), free use of clubs, use of driving range and pitching/chipping practice area; use of 6 hole course, 8 * 50 minute lessons,30*34 ball buckets for the range and concluding with the Platzreife test. All this for the fee of CHF990 (if you can find other people to commit to the same times then 2 or more are for the price of CHF790).
I started in the first week of July and this afternoon I have my Platzreife test having already completed the Rules and Etiquette course (in high-German, but the instructor helped with translation for areas where I failed to fully understand what the questions meant).
So far, so good.
Can highly recommend this IF the location isn't too much of a problem (ps ONLY first names are used at the club -- part of the Etiquette -- and ALL the members have been extremely friendly and welcoming, and you don't have to be a member to do the course here).
If anyone wants any more details then please ask.
Possibilities not all that far from Zürich: Affoltern am Albis (golfclubaffoltern.ch), kyburg (golf-kyburg.ch), Fricktal (which was mentioned already.