Proark Golf Kildebjerg Ry

A new golf course is about to see the light of day at Kildebjerg Ry in Denmark. The project is incorporated in the expansion plans for the town of Ry, the part called Kildebjerg and is unique because the choice of land for the golf facilities was made before the location of the housing was defined.

With the golf facilities being part of a much larger project and having had first choice of land, the planned layout of the project takes full advantage of both the available land and the contours of the existing landscape.

Both dwellings and golf course will be situated at a respectable distance from each other with houses positioned in clusters rather than lined-up along the fairways and it is hoped that this project at Ry will be a classic example to others of a harmonic golf and housing development.

The design is parkland on a grand scale. The former agricultural meadows are bordered by woods in many places, which will set a superb backdrop for the golf course and the many valleys and gullies, now dry, will provide natural venues for new water hazards and lakes. The design of the separate course components will reflect their natural positioning in the landscape leaving little earth-moving work to be done.

The golf course meanders through the landscape passing all points of the compass and every hole has been strategically calculated to provide players of all abilities with a fine challenge. It has been of paramount importance not to let the layout of each individual hole be dictated by a requirement of overall length for the course – onus has been placed on the optimal playing characteristics and the aesthetics of each hole.

Apart from the very varied hole-to-hole route which the golfer must traverse and the well thought out layouts for each hole, the naturally placed water hazards and the many sand-faced bunkers that are sprinkled strategically around the course with the kind help of European Tour golfer Søren Kjeldsen, will add in every way to the enjoyment of this unique development.

These amenities are expected to open in 2011.