Golf
Damme Golf & Country Club
Doornstraat 16, 8340 Sijsele
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2 courses
Grote Baan
- 18 holes
- Par 72
- Length 6,223 m
Damme Golf & Country Club's Grote Baan, now presented as the Championship Course, is a 6,223-metre par 72 in the countryside east of Bruges. Joan Frederik Dudok van Heel created a parkland in 1987 that accepts the nearly horizontal character of maritime Flanders: water, planting and changing degrees of enclosure provide structure rather than large elevation shifts. The course moves between wooded avenues and broader meadow-like ground before returning to an old farm, offering a rural counterpoint to nearby Bruges.
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Architecture
Dudok van Heel uses the available features as soft walls. Woodland narrows certain views, bodies of water expand others, and bunkers articulate the transition from low fairways to subtly contoured greens. The routing changes direction often, distributing the influence of wind and avoiding the repetition that can affect flat sites.
The course in detail
The ground appears level at first sight, yet shallow depressions, banks, restrained mounding and drainage lines create continuous movement. The outward half is generally more wooded; the return opens up and brings numerous ponds and ditches into view. Willow, poplar and older broadleaf trees meet reeds, meadow and waterside plants, with freshwater wildlife often visible.
Alternating dry and wet ground gives the estate changing colour, from spring primroses to dense summer foliage and the more transparent structure of winter.
Editorial source: The Round public Atlas
President’s Nine
- 9 holes
- Par 36
- Length 3,204 m
- Opened 2014
Within Damme Golf & Country Club, President’s Nine is presented as a 9-hole circuit at Damme in West Flanders.
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Architecture
The physical nine-hole par-36 loop measures 3,204 metres and 6,404 metres when played twice. Sand hills, valleys and water on every hole create a modern links-style risk-and-reward course.
The course in detail
The course features 9 holes, with a par of 36, and measures approximately 3000 meters from the back tees. The course utilizes a parkland environment to organize angles, hazards, and approaches to the greens.
Editorial source: The Round public Atlas
The club
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History
The Championship Course opened in 1987 to a design by Dudok van Heel. In 1994 two Flemish families took over the club and began a sustained period of investment in the course, clubhouse, changing rooms and practice facilities. The club later expanded its facilities: Bruno Steensels designed the President's Nine, opened in June 2014, and a Compact Course now completes the offer.
The Grote Baan nevertheless retains a distinct identity.
Club experience
Damme welcomes visitors every day, with a maximum stated handicap of 36 for the Championship Course. The range has sixteen covered bays and a substantial outdoor grass area; putting, chipping, indoor practice, tuition, hire and changing rooms complete the facilities. The old Stockman farm is the social heart of the estate, accommodating clubhouse and restaurant within buildings that retain a genuine rural memory.
Three courses allow experienced golfers, beginners and families to share the property without diluting the more composed character of the Grote Baan.
Geography and setting
The club lies in Damme's level countryside, a territory of polders, canals, drainage ditches and old farms historically connected with Bruges and the sea. Trees and farm buildings supply the main vertical landmarks. Water is therefore not an imported effect: it belongs to the way the soil works and to the memory of the landscape.
Wind is more evident across open ground, while wooded sections produce sheltered, inward-looking spaces. The contrast gives a relatively compact property more geographical variety than its contour map might suggest.
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