Here you can see beautiful shots of geysirs in Iceland captured by the french photographer Alban Henderyckx, which he shot while on a trip in Iceland. All images are taken from a single RAW file and then processed in a lightroom. Most people don´t know that they can also go golfing on an excellent and challenging 9 hole golfcourse that overlooks the geysir area, when they are in Iceland. Challenging the course is because precision golf is required to get a good score on the Geysir golfcourse in Iceland … and then of course you´ll have to concentrate a bit harder than usual because you´ll always be tempted to watch the Read more

Golf 1 wishes its readers and all golfers from near and far a prosperous and blessed year 2015 with many joyfilled rounds of golf! May you achieve all your goals on the golfcourse 2015, big or small and may your handicap go down and you optimism and positiveness up! We hope to see you on one of Iceland´s 65 golf courses this coming summer and fall 2015, since if you come your in for a unique experience, where you a.o. play golf in lava fields  and other extrodinary features in Iceland´s landscape. Who wouldn´t want to play golf next to a spouting Geysir or close to a waterfall, which either Read more

Gisli Sveinbergsson from the Golf Club Keilir in Hafnarfjörður, A-national player, Icelandic champion in stroke play in the boys category age 17-18 and the winner of the Duke of York in 2014 played the second round of the Boys Junior Orange Bowl Championship at the Biltmore golf course in Coral Gables, in Miami at an impressive 4 undir pari, 67 strokes. Magnificent …. and we here in Iceland are all so proud of Gísli!!! Gísli received one great eagle (on the 5th fairway) on the 2nd round, 5 birdies, one bogey and unfortunatelly also a double bogey. Gísli´s total score after 2 rounds of play is one of  2-under-par, 140 strokes Read more

Auroras? Serene summerdays i.e. 24 hr daylight in the summer? Low crimerate? No mosquitos and virtually no other bugs? Colorful houses? Hotsprings? Beautiful nature? 65 golfcourses, the most per capita in the world? These are just a few of the reasons  why Iceland is the best country ever. Here you can view a list of 32 points why Iceland is the best country ever CLICK HERE: 

Golf 1 óskar öllum kylfingum nær og fjær innilega gleðilegra jóla með þakklæti fyrir góðar viðtökur á árinu.  Megi framtíðin færa okkur erni og fugla og mörg glæsileg pútt á nýja árinu!!! Golf 1 ønsker alle golf spillere nær og fjern glædelig jul med mange tak for den enestående modtagelse af Golf 1, í det passerende år. Må fremtiden bringe os alle eagles og birdies og mange pragtfulde putt í det nye år!!! Golf1 wishes all golfers near and far a heartfelt merry Christmas with thanks for the incredible receptions Golf 1 has received this past year! May the future hold many eagles, birdies and georgeous putts for you!!! Golf 1 souhaite à tous Read more

There is no co-incidence that many lava formations look like houses – and many Icelanders believe that invisible people live in those houses/lavastones. Look at the photo here above – can´t you imagine elves living next to the Club House of GS (Golf Club of Suðurnes) in Keflavík? The elv believe is especially predominant in Iceland´s 3rd largest town Hafnarfjörður often referred to today as the town of Wikings and Elves. There is a great article in The Atlantic describing why so many Icelanders still believe in elves. You can read the article by CLICKING HERE:   

A little earlier today we here on Golf 1 posted a video clip of Reykjavík in 1926.  The inhabitants of Reykjavík were 21.ooo,- at that time. Here is another videoclip by American Hal Linker and his Icelandic wife Halla, who made this great footage in the 1950´s,  the time after the 2nd WW when Iceland was prospering in its newfound independence from the Danish Rule in 1944.  Reykjavík as can be heard on the video clip had reached a population of 55.000,-  Today 190.000 are living in Reykjavík. The Americans which at the time still had a base in Keflavík brought with them wealth and money, and everywhere roads and Read more

What has a video clip on a volcano erupting under beautiful Northern Lights to do on a page on golf in Iceland? Nothing, alas to mention that there are at least 3 beautiful golf courses in the vicinity of Bárðarbunga volcano, where you can play golf if you want to combine three if not four things in Iceland: play golf, watch the Aurora borealis, see a volcano errupting and perhaps also go whale watching. Well, the Bárðarbunga volcano is in a very remote location and lies 225 km (122 miles) in a straight line northeast from Reykjavík.  There is no road to the volcano following that straigtht line, this is only Read more

This year, 2014, The Golf Club of Reykjavík celebrates its 80th birthday – since the Golf Club, the first in Iceland, was founded December 14th 1934. Its first name was the Golf Club of Iceland, but it changed its name the following year when more Golf Clubs were founded, in 1935 the Golf Club of Akureyri in the North of Iceland. It´s fun to see footage of how much the times have changed. Here is an old video of Reykjavík in 1926.  It´s hard to imagine, in the abundance of golf courses we have today in Iceland, 65 the most per capita in the world,  that there were no golf Read more

After 260 years women will finally be able to become members of  the venerable Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the Club often considered to be ” The Cradle of Golf.” It is curious considering that the hands that have rocked craddles though the centuries have mainly been women´s, mothers. Yet, mothers, sisters, wives, aunts, cousins, daughters have been excluded from this club so deeply steeped in tradition. This past September 18th will go down in history and long be remembered as one of the preciously few days, nowadays, where justice perseveres and inequality is leveled by equality. An outrageous breach of human rights right in the 21st Read more