Hills Golf Club

Hills Golf Club is a golf club located in Mölndal near Gothenburg, Sweden. It hosted the Nordea Masters in August 2018, a European Tour event.

Hills Golf Club
Club information
Hills Golf Club is located in Sweden
Hills Golf Club
Location in Sweden
Coordinates57.6214°N 12.0125°E / 57.6214; 12.0125
LocationMölndal, Sweden
Established2004
TypePublic
Total holes18
Events hostedScandinavian Mixed
Websitehillsgolfclub.se
Hills Course
Designed byArthur Hills
Steve Forrest
Johan Edfors
Par72
Length6336 m[1]

History

Situated ten kilometers south of central Gothenburg, the 18-hole course, designed by Arthur Hills, opened in 2004. At a cost of SEK 175 million it is one of the most ambitions golf projects in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, only rivaled by Vallda Golf & Country Club, opened in 2009.[2]

A victim of the European debt crisis, in 2012 a consortium fronted by former European Tour player Johan Edfors from nearby Varberg bought the club.[3][4] Edfors redesigned six of the holes and the new course was inaugurated in June 2014.[5]

The Hills course is true to its name and laid out across a rugged landscape through woodland, marshland, forest ridges and rocky outcrops. It begins and ends in an enormous, natural amphitheater, with the 1st and 10th tees and the clubhouse all sitting on a huge rocky promontory overlooking the 9th and 18th holes, which are played on either side of a lake.[6]

Golfers Beatrice Wallin, Sofie Bringner, Hanna-Sofia Leijon, Carin Hjalmarsson, Joel Sjöholm, Niclas Fasth and Denmark's Thomas Bjørn have all been attached to the club in various capacities.[7][8]

Tournaments hosted

Professional tournaments
YearTourChampionshipWinner
2019EURScandinavian InvitationSouth Africa Erik van Rooyen
2018EURNordea MastersEngland Paul Waring
2008CHADubliner ChallengeDenmark Mark Haastrup
2007SGTTelia Ladies FinaleSlovakia Zuzana Kamasová

Amateur tournaments

See also

References
  1. "Course - Nordea Masters". European Tour. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  2. "Carin tillbaka i Göteborg" (in Swedish). Idrottens Affärer. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  3. "Edfors group buys bankrupt Hils". Golf Course Architecture. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  4. "Edfors tar över Hills" (in Swedish). Svensk Golf. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. "Om golfbanan" (in Swedish). Hills Golf Club. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  6. "Hills Golf Club". Top 100 Golf Courses. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  7. "Teamet på Hills" (in Swedish). Hills Golf Club. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  8. "Bjørn hittade lusten – i Göteborg" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
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