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:
“Did I make you go insane?
Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through?
Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist
who dragged you out like a golf cart?
Did I make you go insane?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”
—John Gunther (1901–1970)
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)