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Playing Golf at St. Leon-Rot Deutsche Bank-SAP Open Venue 1999/2001/2002/2004 Tiger Woods triple champion 1999/2001/2002 St. Leon & Rot Championship Courses – winners of the Golf Journal Travel Award “Most Popular Golf Course in Germany” 13 years in succession: 2001 to 2013 AWARDS HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPORTS EUROPEAN TOUR DESTINATION Frankfurt St. Leon-Rot Golf Club is a leading European club, in amateur St. Leon-Rot Golf Club has been a Airport Golf Journal Travel Awards Neckar Distances by car: golf having won 183 cups in 15 years, including 25 national partner of “European Tour Properties” City Airport Heidelberg 11 miles 17 min. Most Popular Golf Course in Germany Speyer 11 miles 19 min. and 60 international trophies. We are deservedly proud of the since spring 2012, becoming part of Bruchsal 12 miles 23 min. Sinsheim 15 miles 19 min. Mannheim Mannheim 20 miles 18 min. Both our Championship courses have won success we have achieved in the past and confident about the exclusive network of leading golf Castle Karlsruhe 29 miles 32 min. several awards, with course “Rot” having the future. courses throughout Europe as well as Heilbronn 34 miles 40 min. Castle Baden-Baden 54 miles 55 min. Heidelberg Schwetzingen Frankfurt 65 miles 1 h 8 min. been awarded the highly coveted “Most Ladies’ 1st Team a “European Tour Destination” and Coblenz Popular Golf Course in Germany” acco- German champion: 2004, meeting the high standards set by The European Tour, the Hocken- heimring lade ten times in a row up to 2010. From 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 governing body of European professional golf. Our club be- Walldorf/ Walldorf Heilbronn 2011 to 2013, this prize was awarded to course “St. Leon”. European champion: nefits from the strong international network of this association Cathedral B 39 Wiesloch Sinsheim Moreover, hole 9 of this course was chosen as one of the in many ways: We have been drawing on the Tour’s compre- Speyer Technology AS 39 Wiesloch 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Museum “Top 500 Holes in the World” by the “Golf Magazin” in 2000. hensive know-how, especially in the field of green keeping. Junction Walldorf AS 32 Automobile & Technology Museum AK 31 in Rhe The network “European Tour Properties” unites premium St. Leon-Rot Mens’ 1st Team golfing areas throughout the world. Golf & Nature German champion: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, St. Leon-Rot Golf Club on course for gold Bruchsal 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 Karlsruhe B 3 St. Leon-Rot Golf Club has not only made LEADING GOLF COURSES Baden-Baden, Baden Airport history in the context of sports. It has also joined the ranks of prestigious German OF GERMANY Host of Allianz clubs to which a gold medal for committing German Boys & Girls Open to the environmental programme "Golf If you have any questions, St. Leon-Rot Golf Club is a member and Nature" was awarded by the German of the quality assurance community please contact our service centre: Playing golf Golf Association. of the Leading Golf courses in Ger- Phone: +49(0) 62 27 / 86 08 - 300 many. The anonymous testers of the Leading Golf Courses examined our at St. Leon-Rot PGA Premium Golf School Host of European facilities as often as 18 times during The golf academy St. Leon-Rot has been Girls’ Team Championship the previous year and assessed them by means of a ques- a licensed PGA Premium Golf School since tionnaire. CEO Eicko Schulz-Hanßen says: "The conclusions July 2012. The certification "PGA Premium drawn by the course testers are very interesting for us as Golf School" acknowledges superb golf they provide us with valuable feedback on our strong GOLF CLUB ST. LEON-ROT TOP PARTNER OF GOLF CLUB ST. LEON-ROT coaching and optimized training conditions. and weak points." Opelstraße 30 | 68789 St. Leon-Rot | Germany Phone +49(0) 62 27 / 86 08 - 0 I Fax +49(0) 62 27 / 86 08 - 88 [email protected] | www.gc-slr.de THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE "ROT" CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE "ST. LEON" YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY OUR.... THE 2015 SOLHEIM CUP Built on the basis of the The parkland course with a length of 6,587 metres 9-hole course, In 2015 St. Leon-Rot Golf Club will host the Solheim Cup, vision of our founding (7,204 yards) offers a premium golfing experience by bambini course and spacious a major event which fascinates millions of fans all over the president Dietmar Hopp, combining athletic and relaxing aspects with fantastic training facilities world. For the first time in the history of the competition, who wanted to create a scenery. Hannes Schreiner, the architect of the course, both tournaments - the Solheim Cup and the PING Junior unique golfing paradise, succeeded in integrating the course “Rot” into the Solheim Cup - will take place at the same venue. Our club St. Leon-Rot Golf Club was natural floodplains with their picturesque charm. Large prevailed over fierce international competitors from Eng- officially opened in 1997 parts of the original landscape have been preserved in the land and Spain and won the bid for hosting the continents and has continuously set form of biotopes and do not only contribute to the visually Halfway House I & II competition in 2015. Therefore, we will bring a golf event of new golf benchmarks ever since. Over the last 15 years, it appealing scenery but also to the special difficulties of as well as 2 restaurants such a dimension to Germany for the first time. has developed to become an innovative and reliable sporting this 18-hole course. So do not be surprised if a muster The Solheim Cup was established in 1990 and, just like The golf club which offers the highest standard of infrastructure of storks is interested in your play and observes your Ryder Cup, it has taken place biennially ever since. In the conditions. From their first day at our club, our members and teeing-off at hole 17. most prestigious tournament of ladies’ professional golf, the guests enjoy a memorable golf experience in a marvelous best twelve female players setting. Pro Shop from Europe and the USA With two Championship courses, a 9-hole course, a 5-hole compete against each bambini course and ideal infrastructure, our facility has al- other over three days. With ready attracted elite professional players including super star match play, 16 foursomes Tiger Woods who played at St. Leon-Rot on no fewer than and twelve single matches three occasions in the Deutsche Bank – SAP Open on The at the end of the tourna- ment, this format allows European Tour International Schedule. The hosting of The Indoor Short Game Solheim Cup in 2015 will represent another milestone in the for massive changes in the The course “St. Leon” with a length of 6,541 metres (7,153 Centre of Excellence history of our Club. results on the final day. yards) was designed by the English architect Dave Thomas and is modelled on a links course; therefore much of its The Solheim Cup will setting is reminiscent of Scottish or Irish golf courses. Its celebrate its 25th anniver- sandy soil, numerous surfaces of water, elaborately shaped sary in 2015 and a total bunkers as well as a sensational island fairway are the domi- of 100,000 spectators are Fitting Lounge, nating elements of this course. Therefore, playing precise expected to visit St. Leon- Centre for video strokes is at least as important as moving the ball over long Rot Golf Club over the analysis & athletics distances here. In spite of - or maybe even because of - these two practice days and difficulties and numerous challenges, this course makes three days of intense playing golf a memorable experience for every player. competition..
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