This has never happened since the club was founded in 1903: eight of the eighteen holes are unplayable due to flooding. It has of course rained a lot, but the sandy soil normally allows water to seep in faster. “We have 7 meters of sandy soil, then a clay layer and then sand again. But now the clay layer is working against us,” says chairman Carlo Henriksen.
The economic loss is great, because day-trip golfers do not come to the coast to play ten holes. “We have 7,000 visitors every year. In the summer it is of course busier than in the winter. Now there are about a hundred players that we do not see at the moment.” The members of the club still come to play golf.