Golf courses in Baden & Black Forest

Baden and the Black Forest make up one of Germany's most scenic golf regions, where roughly 40 courses are set against a backdrop of dark pine slopes, vine-clad hills and the warm Rhine valley. This is the country's mild south-west, and the landscape gives the golf here a distinctive character: fairways carved from forest clearings climbing into the hills, and gentler parkland layouts spread across the open Baden plain where the vineyards begin.

The variety is the draw. You can play among the spruce and silver fir at altitude one day, the air cool and resinous, then drop down to the sun-warmed valley the next for softer, more rolling rounds near the spa towns and wine villages. Because Baden enjoys some of Germany's most temperate weather, the season runs long here, and the golf pairs naturally with thermal baths, regional cuisine and easy excursions across the border into France and Switzerland. For the travelling golfer who wants beautiful scenery and a genuine range of tests in one compact region, Baden and the Black Forest are hard to beat.