Golf courses in Skåne

Skåne, Sweden's southernmost province, is the country's true golf heartland, with more than forty courses packed into a gentle, fertile landscape of farmland, beech woods and a long, sandy coastline. The density is remarkable: nowhere else in Sweden can a visitor reach so many varied courses within such short distances. The province's real signature is its seaside golf, where the flat, dune-backed shores around the southern coast lend several clubs a genuine links feel. Flommens GK and Vellinge GK sit out on the Falsterbo peninsula amid sea air and big skies, while Ystads golfklubb, Trelleborgs GK and the wooded parkland of Bokskogens Golfklubb add inland variety inland.

The season is shorter than in the south of Europe but the summer days are wonderfully long, with light stretching late into the evening for relaxed extra holes. For the travelling golfer, Skåne offers a concentrated, easy-to-tour destination: compact distances, courses ranging from breezy coastal links to sheltered beech-lined fairways, and the bonus of nearby Malmö, the old town of Ystad and a thriving food scene. Reachable in minutes from Copenhagen across the bridge, it is one of northern Europe's most convenient golf regions.