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Courtesy of the club/Jacob Sjöman
Gotland Island in the Baltic Sea off of Sweden’s east coast is home to the Visby Golf Club. The club is built over 150 acres of former seaside grazing land in the medieval port town of Visby from which the track gets its name. The 18-hole course, now titled The One, was designed by Nils Sköld in 1958 originally beginning as nine holes with the second nine coming in 1966 following Sköld’s original design. Two years later, the club commissioned Douglas Brasier to oversee new course developments, specifically the creation of a nine-hole course to accompany the 18-hole championship one. The nine-hole course, however, titled The Other One, wasn’t unveiled until 1992 with the help of Peter Nordwall. Elements from each of Sköld’s, Braiser’s and Nordwall’s designs remain, but the modern edition of the course owes its look to the club’s 2009 renovation done under the supervision of Pierre Fulke and Adam Mednickson. Fulke and Mednickson oversaw the reconstruction of all the greens, teeboxes and bunkers, as well as the addition of two new holes, all the while keeping characteristics of Sköld’s original design. The One is laid out along the blustery shores of the Baltic Sea inside the Kronholmen nature preserve with a mix of parkland and links-style holes. The fairways at Visby snake between native trees and groundplants dotted by thin hazards and wispy fescue grass. Visby’s signature hole is the par-5 18th, reminiscent of the final hole at Pebble Beach playing alongside the water to a raised green overlooking the sea below.
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