There are 12 Icelanders, who currently play on US College Golfteams. One of them is Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir. Golf 1 will now start an introduction of these young Icelandic talents. Ólafía Þórunn is on the Wake Forest golfteam and a.o. played some fantastic golf at the ACC Women´s Golf Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in North-Carolina. The tournament was held last weekend April 13th-April 15th 2012.  Participants were 45 from 9 US Colleges. Ólafía Þórunn finished T-2 with a score of  +3 over par, 226 strokes(70 78 68)… which was an excellent result taking into account the extremely fast greens at Sedgefield. Who is this young 19 year old from Iceland?  This past Read more

There are 66 golfcourses and just as many Golf Clubs in Iceland. But how much does it cost to be a member in a Golf Club in Iceland? What is the annual fee they charge?   Here are membership fees in 10 Golf Clubs 8 in Reykjavík, 1 in the South and 1 in the North. Their facilities vary and so do the membership fees. For example the least expensive Golf Club Álftaness only has a 9 hole golfcourse and a small club house, with no restaurant or pro-shop, whereas you´ll find that in the most expensive Golf Club Oddur for example and Golf Club Keilir.  Here are annual membership Read more

One of Iceland´s young golfers, who is studying in the US and playing on the golfteam of her College is Eygló Myrra Óskarsdóttir. In Iceland she is a member of the Golf Club Oddur (GO), the club who has the highest membership fees in Iceland. (More on that in an article tomorrow)  Eygló Myrra attends the University of San Francisco where she is majoring in finance. These days, i.e. April 15th-April 18th Eygló Myrra is taking part in the West Coast Conference Championship, which is being held at the  San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister, California. The participants are 30 golfers from 6 Colleges. Eygló Myrra has a combined score of Read more

There are two Icelandic golfers, Stefán Már Stefánsson (GR) and Þórður Rafn Gissurarsson (GR) who have been playing on the German 3rd tier EPD Tour this past winter and spring – (The Icelandic Club the Icelandic golfer belongs to is always indicated abbreviated behind their names on Icelandic golfwebsites). They have participated in 9 tournments held in Turkey and Marocco this past winter and beginning of spring 2012  The Open Madaef, Amelkis Classic, Al Maaden, Open Mogador, Sueno Pines Classic, Sueno Dunes Classic, Gloria Old Course Classic and the Gloria New Course Classic)  At the time being they are taking part in the Open Dar Es Salam Tournament in Marocco. This Read more

There are about 12 Icelandic golfers who play golf on US College Golf Teams (these golfers will be introduced later here on Golf 1).  Three of „our” young Icelandic golfers were competing with their teams in the US this weekend and others will start today on Monday. Let´s talk a bit about the three competing this past weekend: Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir, Ólafur Björn Loftsson and Berglind Björnsdóttir. Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir The first one worth mentioning is our gorgeous Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir, Icelandic Champion in both Match and Stroke Play 2011. In Iceland she´s member of Iceland´s largest golfclub, the Golf Club in Reykjavik (GR). She  plays golf on the Wake Forest Read more

They look more like contestants in a beauty pageant, „our girls” who will be participating in the Irish Girls U 18 Open Stroke Play Championship held at Knightsbrook Hotel Spa and Golf Resort in County Meath, Ireland (Golf Heaven where a.o. fine golfcourses you´ll find Killeen Castle where the Solheim Cup 2011 was held!) The tournament starts next Saturday, April 21st 2012.  But don´t let good looks fool you, they are a fiercely competitive bunch and great golfers all of them. The girls who are competing are the most promising, young, Icelandic golfers in the agegroup U 18, at the Golf Club Keilir in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. They are: Anna Sólveig Snorradóttir,  Hildur Rún Guðjónsdóttir, Read more

It´s good to take a few minutes to reflect and take stock of what happened this past week in the world of golf and what´s on in the near future. Most of the newscoverage this past week has been on Bubba Watson, winning the Masters at Augusta National with an incredible hook shot, lifting him to a status of “folk hero” in the States, where he´s a.o. been interviewed by Piers Morgan at CNN and made an apprearance on David Letterman´s Late Show. And who hasn´t seen some version of Bubba Watson´s infamous handshake? Click here for BUBBA WATSON INTERVIEWED BY PIERS MORGAN AT CNN Click here for BUBBA WATSON ON Read more

Stefán Teitur Þórðarson, 13 yrs., aced the 16th at Golf Club Borgarnes last year, whilst taking part in the Icelandic Junior Match Play Championship held by the Icelandic Golf Association on July 26th 2011 at Hamarsvöllur in Borgarnes. Then he was only 12 years old. He is from Akranes, a town approximately a 45 minutes drive from Reykjavík with a population of 6542 (as of February 14th 2012 according to the Icelandic Bureau of Statistics). Stefán Teitur is also an avid soccer player and would love to play soccer professionally in the future. In all likelihood he will since many members of his family have been professional soccer players and Read more

Yesterday Golf 1 introcuced the 16th hole on Hamarsvöllur which is the name of GB´s (The Golf Club of Borgarnes) golfcourse. But apart from being a fantastic par-71, 18 hole golfcourse, what is so special about it? Here three special items will be mentioned that you find on Hamarsvöllur in Borgarnes, Iceland and will not find on any other golfcourse in the world, much less, all three of them combined. For starters GB has the biggest Coca Cola can in the world right in the middle of the golfcourse and the biggest box of red Opal in the world (a „must try” when you come to Iceland. It´s the no. 1 licqorice, Icelanders Read more

One of the landmarks of the PGA Tour in the US, in fact the no.1 landmark according to the PGA Tour (click HERE) is the par-3, 137 yards (125 meter) 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, in Ponte Vedra, Florida, where golfers have to hit their ball on a “an island” green which is almost completely surrounded by water.  The course is the venue for the venerable Players tournament on the PGA Tour, held this year on May 10th – May 13th. Iceland´s answer to TPC´s Sawgrass´17th is the par-3 16th hole at Golf Club Borgarness (abbreviated: GB) in Iceland. Borgarnes is about an hours drive away from Reykjavík and is Read more