{"id":40416,"date":"2012-07-12T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=40416"},"modified":"2012-07-15T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:24:44","slug":"the-asbyrgi-golf-course-in-the-north-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/the-asbyrgi-golf-course-in-the-north-of-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golf Course Glj\u00fafri in \u00c1byrgi in the North of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the Icelanders most beloved travel destination is \u00c1sbyrgi in the North of Iceland. People have long since loved to camp in \u00c1sbyrgi.<\/p>\n

\u00c1sbyrgi is one of the wonders of nature, with cliff faces rising up to 100 m at the inner end of a horseshoe-shaped canyon.. It is 3.5 km long and over 1 km wide. At its innermost end lies Botnstj\u00f6rn, a small pond surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. A distinctive rock formation rises up from the centre of \u00c1sbyrgi, up to 250 m wide, known as Eyjan.<\/p>\n

The area is covered in woodland consisting mainly of birch, willow and mountain ash. Several thousand recently planted pines also prosper. Arctic fulmar nest on the steep cliffs, while many other birds prefer the woods and meadows.<\/p>\n

\u00c1sbyrgi was formed by two or more catastrophic floods caused by glacial bursts from the northern part of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull ice cap, one between eight and ten thousand years ago and a second approximately three thousand years ago. Since then the bed of the river has moved eastwards. However according to legend, Sleipnir, the Norse god Odin’s eight-legged horse, put one of his hooves down as the god rode by.<\/p>\n

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From GOG in \u00c1sbyrgi in the North of Iceland. Photo Golf 1<\/p><\/div>\n

In \u00c1sbyrgi you\u00b4ll also find Golf Club Glj\u00fafri (abbreviated GOG). It\u00b4s one of the Golf Clubs in Iceland with the fewest members. In 2011 the members were only 11. \u00a0The 9 hole golfcourse is in fact a miracle. \u00a0It\u00b4s rather flat and par-66, but it\u00b4s meticulously kept and you\u00b4ll play golf in a landscape of which there\u00b4s no duplicate in the world. GOG is a Club that\u00b4s only 17 yrs old, founded in 1995. There were only 3 holes 1995 but 2 yrs later they were 6. \u00a0By the turn of the century this litle golfcourse was a proud 9 hole one. \u00a0 Can you pride yourself of having played golf in the hoove-print of Sleipnir?<\/p>\n

Well, if you come to Iceland and play on the course you\u00b4ll definately have something to tell your golfingbuddies about, it\u00b4s not the golfcourse itself it\u00b4s more the nature and the feeling playing the golfcourse, which scores high in the feel-good ratings if you prefer to get that complete feeling of freedom some experience when playing golf!<\/p>\n

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From GOG in \u00c1sbyrgi in the North of Iceland. Photo: Golf 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

When you come to Iceland you should do as Tom Cruise when he was filming Oblivion in 2012; experience the North of Iceland; it\u00b4s wonderful capital Akureyri, it\u00b4s beautiful and scenic towns for instance go whale-watching in H\u00fasav\u00edk, but not last but least \u00a0bath at the \u201eblue lagoon” a natural hot thermal pool by M\u00fdvatn (means Mosquito lake in English) eat the best salmon in the world there from the lake…. and of course play golf. When mentioning M\u00fdvatn there is another hidden Golf Gem albeit only a 9 hole one, Krossdalsv\u00f6llur. \u00a0Both of theses golfcourses are in the \u00deingeyja County and love to compete against each other. The Golf Club M\u00fdvatn (GKM) has 26 members.<\/p>\n

H\u00fasav\u00edk, the capital of the \u00deingeyja County \u00a0has a surprizingly hard and well kept golfcourse also 9 holes and it\u00b4s Golf Club had 138 member 2011. \u00a0And yet another 50 member Golf Club is in this most beautiful of all Counties in Iceland the Golf Course Lundur in the Fnj\u00f3ska valley. It was founded only 3 yrs. ago, 2009, and had already 50 members 2011. \u00a0All of the other golfcourses of \u00deingeyja County will be introduced here at Golf 1 later.<\/p>\n

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From the Golf Club Glj\u00fafri golfcourse also called the \u00c1sbyrgi Golf Course in Iceland. Photo: Golf 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

Let\u00b4s in the end take a glance at the little 9 hole GOG golfcourse:<\/em><\/p>\n

1 st hole par 4 yellow: 300 meters \u00a0red: 250 meters \u00a0hcp 5<\/p>\n

2nd hole par 4 yellow: 260 meters red: 220 meters hcp 13<\/p>\n

3rd hole par 4 yellow: 330 meters red: 265 meters hcp 3<\/p>\n

4th hole par 3 yellow: 155 \u00a0meters red: 135 meters hcp 9<\/p>\n

5th hole par 4 yellow: 270 meters red: 240 meters hcp 17<\/p>\n

6th hole par 5 yellow. 465\u00a0meters red: 405\u00a0meters hcp 1<\/p>\n

7th hole par 3 yellow: 142 meters red: 142 meters hcp 7<\/p>\n

8th hole par 3 yellow: 133 meters red: 133 meters hcp 15<\/p>\n

9th hole par 3 yellow: 180 meters red: 147 meters hcp 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the Icelanders most beloved travel destination is \u00c1sbyrgi in the North of Iceland. People have long since loved to camp in \u00c1sbyrgi. \u00c1sbyrgi is one of the wonders of nature, with cliff faces rising up to 100 m at the inner end of a horseshoe-shaped canyon.. It is 3.5 km long and over 1 km wide. At its innermost end lies Botnstj\u00f6rn, a small pond surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. A distinctive rock formation rises up from the centre of \u00c1sbyrgi, up to 250 m wide, known as Eyjan. The area is covered in woodland consisting mainly of birch, willow and mountain ash. Several thousand recently planted pines also Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40419,"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-40416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1838,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416","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=40416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}