Eichenheim
On the road out to Aurach, there is Eichenheim, ranked Austria’s number 1 among Europe’s Top 100 by the Peugeot Golf Guide. Kyle Phillips used all the imagination he put in to Kingsbarns to create this masterpiece beneath the Wilder Kaiser mountains, a rugged background to many a Hahnenkamm TV shot.
Kyle Phillips’ Eichenheim is the pre-eminent introduction to Kitzbühel golf. Its very first hole is a par-five, 550-yarder off the whites. Cleverly exploiting tree, sand trap and elevation, the Californian master keeps the pressure on for the full 7,000 yards. Lovely when it stops? No, in these surroundings you want it to go on and on. Maybe mid and long handicappers will better enjoy themselves off the yellow tees at 6,057 yards. For all, the high point comes at the 11th, SI1 at 460 yards off the whites, followed without breath by a par-three over a 200ft precipice to a green far, far below.
Eichenheim has been home to the PGA Challenge Tour’s Austrian Championship.
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