How we use our practice facilites

To give you a clear overview of our practice facilities, we’ve created two dedicated pages:

• Driving Range – Long Game Training (this page)
• Short Game Area – Green Bunker play – Fairway bunker – Approach Wedges & Putting → Go to this link

Both areas are essential for improving your golf. The Driving Range helps you build technique, ball flight and long-game consistency. The Short Game Area focuses on the shots that truly influence your score: distance control, wedges, chipping, bunker shots and putting. Together, they form a complete and realistic training environment for players of all levels.

Our Driving Range offers both mat and grass tees. Mats provide consistent quality and are ideal for beginners working on swing motion and contact. They allow players to focus on movement before the low point becomes relevant.
We use the mats very little, but when they help us didactically, we make use of them.

At the grass tee, we work intensively on clean ball-turf contact – one of the most important fundamentals in golf. Mats are more forgiving but offer less feedback. That’s why we added a two-metre semirough strip in front of the grass tee. It’s perfect for first real ball contacts and precise technical training for more advanced players. We use all kinds of games to help you build more consistent contact.

Some areas of the Practice Tee are intentionally varied: small slopes in all directions simulate every possible lie – uphill, downhill, ball above or below the feet. This creates a training environment that feels very close to real on-course play.

On one side of the Driving Range, we have a Pitching Practice Station. Here we work on impact quality, distance control and trajectory – the three key factors for a better Wedge Game. Targets are placed every ten metres, from 30 to 90 metres. Players of all levels can work with clear reference points and quickly develop a feel for different distances. Just 10 to 15 minutes a day can make a noticeable difference.

For our performance games and technical drills, we’ve created several corridors. Pitching corridors are roughly ten meters wide. This way for irons and hybrids, the space becomes much tighter – ideal for precision practice. With fairway woods or the Driver, the challenge increases again.
In the middle of the range, we created a hilly undulation that acts as a fairway edge. This allows us to create two realistic fairway situations and gives golfers the chance to work on their tee-shot strategies using properly spaced landing areas. One corridor has a no-go zone on the left, the other on the right – just like on the golf course.

These training areas help us do more than make direction and dispersion visible. They also provide a practical foundation for our golf shot planning: golfers learn to recognise target areas, understand their normal shot pattern and judge how much room a sensible solution needs for the variation that is part of their game.

We use our Driving Range for more than direction and distance. Visible references such as distance posts, terrain lines, the mountain ridge and power lines also help us observe how the height of a golf ball develops during its flight.

Golfers therefore learn more than whether a ball flies “high” or “low”. They can observe how the ball starts, how quickly it gains height and what height it reaches at a particular distance. This information becomes important on the golf course when trees, branches, bushes or other boundaries restrict the available ball flight.

Our Window Programme within the Golf Learning System takes its name from the many situations in which golfers have to play through these kinds of “windows” on the golf course. A ball may need to travel underneath the first branches, rise over another tree later in the flight or pass between lateral boundaries.

But getting the ball through the window is only part of the task. The golfer also needs to assess where the ball will land, how far it will run out and what position it will eventually create. The green may be the target, but often a controllable position on the fairway is enough if it prepares a sensible next shot.

This is why height training is an important part of our golf courses. On the Driving Range, golfers learn to observe and predict ball start and height development more accurately. On the golf course, we then connect this information with the lie, club selection, safety margin, landing, runout and the desired next position.

In this way, the Driving Range becomes a learning environment for ball flight and preparation for the decisions golfers later need to make in real playing situations.

A good shot from short-cut grass builds confidence and shows honestly how clean the strike really is. Practising on grass often involves themes like controlling grip pressure, lateral stability, solid swing timing, managing the height of the swing arc and, most importantly, understanding and controlling the angle of attack.

And yes – golf is also about aiming. Mats make alignment easier, but grass is honest: can the golfer actually aim, or is poor alignment responsible for directional misses, fat shots, thin shots or all kinds of other errors? There is a lot of cause and effect at play… you just don’t always realise it. Video analysis helps us a lot when showing what’s really happening.

If you struggle with impact conditions, be sure that we work on these every single day, until you feel comfortable and can reproduce solid contact on the golf course. This is one of the big advantages of weekly courses over single lessons – the changes truly stick.

Beginners focus mainly on developing their first real feel for proper ball-turf contact. They learn what a clean strike feels like – and what they need to do to produce it consistently.

Advanced players use the grass tee to refine strike quality, build consistency and adapt to different conditions: hard or soft ground, semirough lies and small undulations. These variations make training more realistic and closely aligned with actual on-course situations. When playing, we identify what causes you trouble. In practice, we recreate those situations, work on the solution and then re-test it on the golf course. That’s how we do it.

In the fairway bunker, we practise not only classic bunker shots with various clubs. We also use this situation to sharpen iron contact. The bunker demands precise ball-first contact – perfect for improving technique, rhythm and control in a very visible way.

Slope training starts with understanding the four basic slope types and applying the right adjustments to make your shots functional. Things get interesting when we combine two slope types at once – for example, ball below the feet combined with a downhill lie. Now two corrections are needed. Through repetition we look for a stable, reliable impact. Once that’s achieved, we begin to see how the ball flight is affected. But the job isn’t finished yet – now we can work on aim and choose the correct landing spot so the shot succeeds not by chance, but by ability.

The golf course is the ultimate test — full of endless practice opportunities and real playing situations.

Every hole asks for something different. In our 18-hole review, we show you each hole in detail and explain what we work on there with our golfers day after day.

All of this takes place in a fun, relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. The natural charm of the club and our 28 years of coaching experience come together to create a truly enjoyable and inspiring learning week for you.

The front nine are great for building confidence off the tee, learning to use your ball flight and developing tee-shot strategies. They’re wide, open and pleasantly flat — ideal for beginners and higher handicappers. Here we can build confidence, establish routines and work on introducing new clubs or shot types in a calm, forgiving environment.

The back nine are a different story: more water, more trees, more elevation changes. Some holes are long and open, others short and tight. There are blind shots, steep lies and those classic moments where the ladies’ tee sits much further forward (#ladiestime). And of course – the famous “Valley of Lost Balls” on hole 18. You’ll understand the name the moment you stand on that tee.

This is also where course strategy becomes essential. We work on simple rules that help you avoid the “stupid shots” – the ones that cost penalty strokes and grey hairs. Developing an instinct that warns you before you step into trouble is crucial. Without it, golfers tend to ignore the danger ahead… and that usually doesn’t end well.

After reading this article, you might enjoy our detailed look at all 18 holes of the course.

We show you what we work on at each hole – strategy, shot choices, common mistakes and the little insights that make a big difference. There’s a lot of useful wisdom waiting for you – first in the 18 videos and secondly when you sign-up for one of our courses.

We follow a simple principle: if you understand what you’re doing, you should be allowed to play. One of the great advantages of our home course is that beginners and Handicap-54 students can go out on the course independently in the early evening, once daily traffic has eased. That’s not possible on many golf courses.

Because our new golfers play on the course several times during the week with us, they know how to behave and how not to disturb other players. This allows us to give them this freedom with confidence. These first independent rounds are incredibly valuable – they build confidence, routine and a true feeling for the game.

After 15:30, our students may head onto the front nine on their own – in the calm of the evening, without pressure, perfect for focused learning and enjoyment. And afterwards? A cool drink or a relaxed dinner on the clubhouse terrace, in a restaurant with sea view or in the village square. That’s how a golf day becomes unforgettable.

If you’d like to see how we train the short game, you can find our dedicated Short Game Training page here