Golfclub Gut Altentann
So you’ve heard of the RTJ Golf Trail in Mississippi and Alabama, the Brandywine Trail in the Mid-Atlantic, the This Trail in Bumfuck and the That Trail in Podunk, but now there is the Mozart Trail in Austria! I kid you not people: https://mozartgolf.at/golfplaetze/. There’s even a Mozart Golf Card. OK I doubt any golfer is lathering up for an Austrian Golf Escapade let alone a Mozart related one, so I won’t pretend to talk about a guys golf trip to the Mozart Trail but if you ARE vacationing in the Salzburg area and can sneak away between the Sound of Music and Mozart crap, then I highly suggest Gut Altentann. BTW, here’s what I was cranking on the course…
So was planning a quiet 25th Anniversary trip to Austria and maybe Switzerland until my girls hijacked the trip. We ended up flying into Munich, driving to Regensburg, then to Prague, a day trip into Poland, then down to Slovakia, then Vienna, then Salzburg then back to Munich. Ugh, but at least they let me golf three times. Of those three times, Gut Altentann was the best. I’ll go into Munich and Austria here and when I write up my Czech golf experience, I’ll discuss Regensburg, Bratislava, Poland and Prague there.
The girls wanted to take a Sound of Music tour which I would’ve preferred to have my earlobes ripped off with pliers so they let me golf. Gut Altentann is a Jack Nicklaus design and the highest rated course in Austria near Salzburg (according to Golf Digest’s Planet Golf at the time).
As you can imagine, the course offered some great elevation changes. The first hole was a great split fairway affair where you could take the tougher high road off the tee setting up an easier approach or the easier low road setting up the tougher approach. I aimed straight and actually hit it that way right into the bunker separating the upper and lower fairways. Bogey. Struggled on the front here – played the yellows which measure 5,652 M (6,200 yards +/-). The second was the 17th handicap (a par five and took a 7). Two more doubles on the number one handicap third and par-three 4th and things were looking bleak (plus I didn’t have any cocktails and there was no cart girl). Played through a group on five (took a triple while just picking up) then had the course to myself. Six was a tough, longish par-four with water up the right and seven came right back with water all along the right again. But from six on, I played much better and recovered with the perfect bogey round of 90.
The ninth was back across the road. and a great little par three over water. Back nine was all up in the hills and the 18th was a great downhill finisher where the green cut in to the left across the pond and separated by a trap from the ninth green. The clubhouse was a Tyrolian-type affair but didn’t get to spend any time there as I had to run back to meet the fam.
If you’re doing Salzburg (and not doing the Sound of Music thing), you can polish it off in a day. I suggest flying into Munich and taking the drive over. Stay in the town. We stayed at the Hotel Altstadt. From the “auto” side it looked like a dump that took three elevators to get to the lobby but from the “walking” old town side, it was an awesome street-front hotel with cafe. See below…
This is a Radisson Blu property and that means it usually blows until you leave and then it blew. But I digress. The old town side made it a great location right in the heart of the nice walking old town of Salzburg. You’ll visit all things Mozart but when in Salzburg, nur tun es. Look it up.
Forget where we ate and if you and your family are into the Sound of Music thing, my girls said it was awesome. As I said, you don’t need a boat load of time here so I recommend you fly into and out of Munich. It’s only about an hour-and-a-half drive to Munich from here.
If you are in Munich, do Dachau. Very somber place and thank God they preserve this so we never forget what Fascism and out-of-control Racial Supremacy thinking truly means. The Libturds are destroying all American history that makes them uncomfortable. Plus, they call every Conservative a Nazi. They should spend an afternoon in Dachau to understand what being a Nazi really means and how pathetic and bigoted it is to be referring to those of us who disagree with their Communist agenda as such. But I digress.
If you’re in Munich, you have to do the Hofbraeuhaus. In Vienna, you have to try the wiener schnitzel with spaetzle. We ate at two places there (both highly recommended): al fresco at ef16 Restaurant & Weinbar and Gaststube Puerstmer (girls pictured below).
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