Noord-Nederlandse Golf & Country Club

The Noord-Nederlandse Golf & Country Club (North Dutch Golf & Country Club) is a golf club in the Dutch town of Glimmen, south of the city of Groningen.

The club was founded in 1950 and was the first club to be established after World War II. In the beginning the members played in a field next to Eelde Airport.

Current Head Greenkeeper is Allan Salmond, who won the 2010 Head Greenkeeper of the Year award for the Netherlands.


Famous quotes containing the words golf, country and/or club:

    And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
    Their only monument the asphalt road
    And a thousand lost golf balls.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
    J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)

    Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.
    “Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)