Oegstgeester Golfclub

Oegstgeester Golfclub in Oegstgeest, South Holland, is a 9-hole, par-30 golf course on reshaped polder land, designed by golf architect Aart Bergsma.

Can visitors play at Oegstgeester Golfclub? Yes: green fee players with a Dutch golf proficiency certificate (GVB) are welcome. A tee time must always be booked in advance through the club's website, and flights are limited to four players.

Oegstgeester Golfclub is at Van Houdringelaan 15 in Oegstgeest, next to Leiden. The course fills the northern part of the De Voscuyl sports park, where football club FC Oegstgeest and korfball club Fiks also have their pitches.

Oegstgeester Golfclub dates back to 1986 and grew out of the UDO football club, on the initiative of Leen de Goey. Its first course was a nine-hole layout of about 1,200 metres on the sports fields, which the golfers shared with football and korfball clubs.

The current Oegstgeester Golfclub course dates from 2018. A year earlier, UDO and vv Oegstgeest merged into FC Oegstgeest, which freed up land at De Voscuyl. Aart Bergsma of the design firm De Klare Lijn drew the new layout, and contractor Hoek from Voorhout built it with help from many club volunteers. Soil from the new artificial football pitches turned the flat polder into rolling ground. The Dutch Golf Federation (NGF) then gave the club C-status.

Oegstgeester Golfclub has six par 3s and three par 4s. Nine holes measure 1,408 metres from the yellow tees and 1,323 metres from the red tees; two rounds make an 18-hole par 60 of 2,816 metres from yellow. The longest hole from the yellow tees is the 4th, a 231-metre par 4, while the 5th, a 137-metre par 3, is stroke index 1.

For 18 holes at Oegstgeester Golfclub, the men's course rating from the yellow tees is 56.1 with a slope of 92. Women playing from the red tees have a course rating of 57.8 and a slope of 95.