Luxembourg Golf Course Reviews
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Review
Junglinster, Luxembourg
White tees: 73.8 rating; 132 slope |
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff review summary: This golf course is a typical Luxembourg
affair utilizing the hills, farm land and surrounding forest off and on to give
different feels throughout. The front
nine is interesting and challenging, as are the final few holes, with the
course following a cramped series of holes from 11 to 14. The most interesting offerings are reviewed
below:
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 1: Long and slightly downhill, the drive is straightforward, with right being the worse miss with more trees and heavy left to right slope. The approach is then downhill to a green that seems all alone and open, save for the solitary sand trap short-right. The countryside views are pleasant to start the day.
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 1: Long and slightly downhill, the drive is straightforward, with right being the worse miss with more trees and heavy left to right slope. The approach is then downhill to a green that seems all alone and open, save for the solitary sand trap short-right. The countryside views are pleasant to start the day.
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 2: This short par five is the classic engineered double dog leg with lake right off the tee and lake left for the approach to the green. The farther one left goes off the tee to avoid the lake, the less realistic the chance of going for the green in two, and the worse the angle back to the fairway, over the water and towards the OB. The green is well-guarded by a bunker right.
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 5: The drive on this relatively short dogleg right par 4 is very intimidating, even though long iron or fairway wood is plenty of club. From the middle or back tees, the ideal landing area is blocked by the fescue-covered hill on the right around which the hole wraps. The hazard on the left presents the unique fear of seeing trouble left but not being truly sure how far right is safe. The approach is a strong one if the pin is right, over a huge bunker.
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 6 (right): This extremely difficult par four features a drive through a shoot of trees with a lake at the corner of the dogleg. Flying the lake requires a mammoth effort and most players will stay right, which leaves a long iron approach uphill to a green that is very tough to putt.
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 12: This hole is mentioned as an oddity. At only 446 yards, it is barely longer than the longest par 4 on the course, but is a true risk versus reward hole. The drive starts at the bottom of the hill at a 35 degree angle to the dogleg left fairway rising sharply above it. The gutsy player can try to cut the corner and tall trees to leave a short approach of 200 yards or less, but anything left or too low is OB. The rest of the hole is very tight with OB left and behind the green, which means easy birdie or easy double bogey depending on the day. (not pictured)
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 12: This hole is mentioned as an oddity. At only 446 yards, it is barely longer than the longest par 4 on the course, but is a true risk versus reward hole. The drive starts at the bottom of the hill at a 35 degree angle to the dogleg left fairway rising sharply above it. The gutsy player can try to cut the corner and tall trees to leave a short approach of 200 yards or less, but anything left or too low is OB. The rest of the hole is very tight with OB left and behind the green, which means easy birdie or easy double bogey depending on the day. (not pictured)
Golf de Luxembourg Belenhaff Hole 18: The final hole features an easy drive to stay right or short of the lake. However, there is a difficult approach to the green over the lake, but with a steep hill dropping off to the street behind, so distance control is paramount to avoid a bad end to the day.