Fancy swinging your niblick where the air is cool and clean and the sun is warm?

Ever wanted to batter balls off a mountainside or participate in the Harley Davidson Golf Tournament? If this sounds like a bit of you, apart from the last one obviously, why not head to Mozart’s playground and jet off to Austria, the home of lederhosen, cowbells and 150 golf courses of undeniable beauty.

The Austrians take their leisure seriously so expect to find the highest standards of golf course management set in the Alps, lake or wine growing regions. Talk about taking full advantage of the landscape.

As nice as it is outdoors we’re not expecting you to kip rough. There’s a plethora of four and five star accommodation but don’t expect your hotel to be run by the Austrian Basil Fawlty. Clubs and hotels which become GOLF IN AUSTRIA partners must adhere to a list of quality criteria. The owners play golf themselves and know what to offer their guests, like quality GolfJunk to hack about with, lessons from the pros, and enough bratwurst and onion baguettes to fell an Elk.

For example the Balance Resort Stegersbach in Burgenland boasts exceptional design based on light flooded spaces, modern architecture incorporating natural materials, a 2,000 m² Balance Spa with indoor and outdoor pools, sauna area and professional treatments. Perfect for relaxing yourself and even better to dump your other half at whilst you step outside into Thermen Golfschaukel Lafnitztal, Austria’s largest golf complex. With 45 holes, practise facilities and a cracking club house squeezed into 190 hectares there’s plenty there for all levels of golfer.

Then there’s Kitzbuhel. A place where at certain times of the year you can play golf and ski in the same day, and home of the Eichenheim course. Within half an hour of the medieval city there are seven other top-notch tracks. Just think of it as a golf conurbation where you swap high-rise flats and flyovers for halfway huts and fairways.

But you know GOLFPUNK. We lap up après golf caper like a young Arnold Schwarzenegger lapping up creatine shakes. And Austria doesn’t disappoint. From Salzburg to Vienna it seemed like every night was party night. Whenever we asked what the occasion was the stock response was, “there’s no reason for it other than to have a good time!” Now that’s our kind of people. And for those too lazy to learn the lingo, which we assume is 95% of you, the Austrians speak English better than most of your mates do. In fact the only phrase you’ll need to utter is ‘Vier Rechts’ as you wildly slash another Srixon into cabbage.
So get involved, order the catalogue and find out about the full range of hotels, packages and golf clubs available in Austria. If you don’t you’ll kick yourself.

For information and advice or to order your copy of the GOLF IN AUSTRIA catalogue free of charge:

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GOLF IN AUSTRIA; Nicole Ruisz
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E-Mail: Nicole.Ruisz@golfinfo.at