{"id":56522,"date":"2013-01-05T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=56522"},"modified":"2013-01-06T06:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T06:52:32","slug":"a-new-golfcourse-to-open-in-siglufjordur-near-the-arctic-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/a-new-golfcourse-to-open-in-siglufjordur-near-the-arctic-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"A new golfcourse to open in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur – near the Arctic Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is a small village in the North of Iceland and its current number of inhabitants (according to the \u00a0Statistics Office in Iceland as of February 14th 2012) are 1217; 609 male and 608 female.<\/p>\n

\"Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/a>

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Photo: nordurland.is<\/p><\/div>\n

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur used to be the commercial capital of Iceland early in the 20th century in the Herring Era, when herring was the Iceland\u00b4s main export. Around 1968 the herring vanished and so did most of the inhabitants of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, who moved to other parts of the island. But although the current inhabitants are only 1217, there are hundredfold more Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0urians living all around Iceland – people who have their roots in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and enjoy visiting the town whenever they can.<\/p>\n

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur used to be isolated, surrounded by a ring of beautiful mountains and accessible only by sea or air or over a narrow mountain pass (in Icelandic: Siglufjar\u00f0arskar\u00f0) which was open only during the summer. \u00a0Now the town is easily accessible by road through 2 tunnels \u00a0the\u00a0H\u00e9\u00f0insfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Tunnel (opened 2010) which is 11 km (6.8 miles) in length and connects Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to \u00a0\u00d3lafsfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, but two towns\u00a0merged to form a municipality called\u00a0Fjallabygg\u00f0<\/a>, which literally means\u00a0Mountain Settlement<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was already connected by the 800 meter Str\u00e1kar Tunnel to the west; the tunnel being completed 1967.<\/p>\n

Now there are \u00a0plans of building a new golfcourse, hotel and renew the skiing facilities to draw more tourists to this goregeous part of Iceland which has been called \u201ethe Alps of the North.” \u00a0 There is a golfclub in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur called Golfkl\u00fabbur Siglufjar\u00f0ar (abbreviated GKS) which was founded in 1970. Five years ago, 2008 \u00a0the club had 49 members and in the year after they were 60 and have been increasing at the same rate ever since.<\/p>\n

The foreman of the Golf Club of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is Ingvar Hreinsson<\/strong>, who has done an incredible work in attracting new golfers, just as the fore(wo)man of GKS before him,\u00a0J\u00f3hanna \u00deorleifsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Ingvar Hreinsson – foreman of the Golf Club of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur (GKS) and behind him…. the majestic mountains of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Photo: Golf 1<\/p><\/div>\n

Golf 1 will keep you informed on the building of the new golfcourse in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and golf there in more detail later.<\/p>\n

As for now… \u00a0an article was recently pulished on the website of golfarchitectures about the new golfcourse in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur – which work started on this past summer 2012. and is scheduled to open 2015 – an article which you can see by CLICKING HERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The 3rd green and the 4th fairway on the old golfcourse of GKS (The Golf Club of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur). Photo taken from the 5th fairway. \u00a0Photo: Golf 1<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is a small village in the North of Iceland and its current number of inhabitants (according to the \u00a0Statistics Office in Iceland as of February 14th 2012) are 1217; 609 male and 608 female. Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur used to be the commercial capital of Iceland early in the 20th century in the Herring Era, when herring was the Iceland\u00b4s main export. Around 1968 the herring vanished and so did most of the inhabitants of Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, who moved to other parts of the island. But although the current inhabitants are only 1217, there are hundredfold more Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0urians living all around Iceland – people who have their roots in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and enjoy visiting Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56526,"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-56522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1607,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56522","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=56522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}