The Golf club of Vestmanneyjar is the third oldest in Iceland, founded in 1938 by 36 dedicated people. To begin with, the small valley Herjólfsdalur, was the settlement for the first 6 holes. Three of the original holes are still in use and those holes are the oldest golf holes in Iceland. Only year after a small clubhouse was finished in the east part of the valley and then enlarged in 1945. In 1962 the course boasted full 9 holes. National celebration in Herjólfsdalur forced the members to seek out new land south of the valley and in continuance of that a new clubhouse was built. As Alister Nicol from GOLF MONTHLY wrote about the golf course “The Westman Islands course nestles in the crater of an extinct volcano and its scenery has to be seen to be believed. It is golf, if now quite in the raw, the just as I would imagine my Scottish forebears intended it to be. There are no obsessively manicured fairways here. But there are a series of spectacular holes which take one´s breath away.”

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