{"id":28497,"date":"2012-04-14T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=28497"},"modified":"2012-04-14T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T09:40:01","slug":"what-is-so-special-about-golfclub-borgarnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/what-is-so-special-about-golfclub-borgarnes\/","title":{"rendered":"What is so special about the Golf Club of Borgarnes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Golf 1 introcuced the 16th hole on Hamarsv\u00f6llur which is the name of GB\u00b4s (The Golf Club of Borgarnes) golfcourse. But apart from being a fantastic par-71, 18 hole golfcourse, what is so special about it?<\/p>\n

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The biggest box of Opal, an Icelandic type of licqorice, can also be found on GB\u00b4s golfcourse, Hamarsv\u00f6llur. Photo: Golf 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here three special items will be mentioned that you find on Hamarsv\u00f6llur in Borgarnes, Iceland and will not find on any other golfcourse in the world, much less, all three of them combined. For starters GB has the\u00a0biggest Coca Cola<\/strong> can<\/strong> in the world right in the middle of the golfcourse and\u00a0the biggest box of red Opal<\/strong>\u00a0in the world (a \u201emust try” when you come to Iceland. It\u00b4s the no. 1 licqorice, Icelanders use to keep their breath fresh and also comes in green and blue (with a more saltier taste).<\/p>\n

The third special thing on Hamarsv\u00f6llur is GB\u00b4s clubhouse<\/strong>. It has the shape of a traditional, old Icelandic, gabled farmhouse, its shape dates back to the old Vikings, the first settlers that inhabited Iceland in 874.<\/p>\n

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Hv\u00edti b\u00e6rinn, i.e. \u201ethe White Farm" - GB\u00b4s clubhouse.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lets talk a little more about the Coke can on the golfcourse in Borgarnes. It used to be a what Icelanders call a “s\u00farheysturn” translated literally \u201esourhaytower” or as is more common a silo to store hay, since Hamarsv\u00f6llur used to be a pasture for cows and sheep.<\/p>\n

In 2000 there was a financial downswing and Golf Club Borgarnes had to let ends meet and therefore made an advertisement contract with the Coca Cola company to 5 years. The old silo was transformed into a Coca Cola can.<\/p>\n

There were quite a few that didn\u00b4t like the Americanization part of the whole deal and wrote articles about that laws should be passed on ads by the roadside that forbade ads in the form of the can. In their minds the can was a blemish to the unspoilt Icelandic nature and \u00a0simply a cannot. \u00a0Among the more outspoken anti-Coke canists was \u00d6gmundur J\u00f3nasson, who at present is the Minister of the Interior. In an article written 2003, which you can see HERE:<\/a> <\/strong>he a.o. was delighted about support that GB got from a local bank hence he thought the Coke can would now disappear. NOT!<\/p>\n

Club members of GB have even put blocks of rock around their precious, beautiful, red can and provided for lights so everyone can see it from far away! You even get (by local rules) a two stroke penalty if you hit the can… no \u00a0just kidding! But lastly what comes to mind is that Obama\u00b4s words: \u201eYes, we CAN” get a whole different meaning… at least in Borgarnes, Iceland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Golf 1 introcuced the 16th hole on Hamarsv\u00f6llur which is the name of GB\u00b4s (The Golf Club of Borgarnes) golfcourse. But apart from being a fantastic par-71, 18 hole golfcourse, what is so special about it? Here three special items will be mentioned that you find on Hamarsv\u00f6llur in Borgarnes, Iceland and will not find on any other golfcourse in the world, much less, all three of them combined. For starters GB has the\u00a0biggest Coca Cola can in the world right in the middle of the golfcourse and\u00a0the biggest box of red Opal\u00a0in the world (a \u201emust try” when you come to Iceland. It\u00b4s the no. 1 licqorice, Icelanders Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1822,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}