Royal Limburg

Royal Limburg

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There aren't a huge number of courses in any of our Top 100s that were built in the 1960s.


It's fair to say that architecture during that period went through a modest spell and, combined with less desire to find prime sites that there is today, meant the post-World War Two era is largely lost decades for courses at the elite level.


You might reasonably suggest the world had bigger things on its mind after 1945, but courses were built... just not all that many outstanding ones.


Royal Limburg is an exception. This relatively modern heathland was laid out by Fred Hawtree in the mid ‘60s, and few who play it would not consider it one of the finest European courses of that period.



Limburg is about a lot more than just heather in full technicolour and deserves its strong position in our continental Top 100.

It is a heathland of real class, playing between towering pines and heather as it journeys along exceptionally fast-running fairways.


Our image of the course is striking and accurate, but while the heather isn't always quite so purple – it's a bit like images of Dornoch with yellow gorse – don't be disappointed if it's not because your experience will be equally as good.


Limburg is about a lot more than just heather in full technicolour and deserves its strong position in our continental Top 100.


With a little more creativity in the green surrounds it could be a powerful top-30 continental contender.


It is released from the pines after the downhill par-5 7th and into the sporty dog-leg 8th but returns to the familiar feeling of the trees for the middle of the back nine.


That second half includes an exacting par 4 at 12 and a delightful short hole to a three-tiered green, before closing with a long, open hole dominated by heather – the one seen in the image.  Chris Bertram