There is a golftournament scheduled in Sandger\u00f0i, Iceland on January 12th 2013. One might think that it would be to cold to play, yet there are 88 contestants thereof 7 women.<\/p>\n
The weatherforcast is \u201efavorable” for golfplay in Iceland tomorrow Saturday, January 12th 2013 – no snow – a gentle breeze and the temperature 3-4\u00b0 albeit it\u00b4s supposed to go down to 0\u00b0 Celsius around noon. Typically for Iceland the sun is supposed to shine a little, but one can also expect a little snow to fall and in the afternoon it will rain. \u00a0You get a bag of \u201eall kinds of everything” weather.<\/p>\n
Prizes are from Golfb\u00fa\u00f0in in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur (lit: golf store) which sells all sorts of golf equipment 3 being awarded for most points garnered according to the Stabbleford points system and 1 prize is awarded to the winner in the stroke play competition. Both first prizes are worth 15.000 Icelandic kronas (approx. $ 120)<\/p>\n
The entrance fee in this golf tournament in the middle of winter in Iceland is 2.500 Icelandic kronas (approx. $ 20) and included in the prize is a bowl of hot soup and bread, which is extremely nice to have after an enjoyable round of golf in Sandger\u00f0i.<\/p>\n
By the way the golfcourse in Sandger\u00f0i is one of two golfcourses which are closest to the International airport of Keflav\u00edk – one which you should absolutely make a point of playing if you come to Iceland and one which is highly accessible due to its proximity to the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a golftournament scheduled in Sandger\u00f0i, Iceland on January 12th 2013. One might think that it would be to cold to play, yet there are 88 contestants thereof 7 women. The weatherforcast is \u201efavorable” for golfplay in Iceland tomorrow Saturday, January 12th 2013 – no snow – a gentle breeze and the temperature 3-4\u00b0 albeit it\u00b4s supposed to go down to 0\u00b0 Celsius around noon. Typically for Iceland the sun is supposed to shine a little, but one can also expect a little snow to fall and in the afternoon it will rain. \u00a0You get a bag of \u201eall kinds of everything” weather. Prizes are from Golfb\u00fa\u00f0in in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-57090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1250,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090","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=57090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}