| Venue | Promoter | ||||
Prosper Golf Resort Nearest Airport: Ostrava Airport (24km / 20 mins), Brno Airport (168km / 1 hour 30 mins), Katowice Airport, Poland (122km / 1 hour), Praha Airport (380km / 3 hours 30 mins) Golf Course Website: www.czechopen2010.com | Stephen John Alexander Flanagan, CEO Quirit Alfa a.s. Sports Marketing and Promotion Umelecka 305/1 Ostrava 70200 Czech Republic Tel: +420 558 440 411 Fax: +420 558 440 410 Email: golf@prosper-golf.cz Tournament Website: www.czechopen2010.com Prosper Golf Resort Celadna Czech Republic Tel: + 420 558 440 413, 00420 558 440 413 Email: flanagan@prosper-golf.cz Website: www.prosper-golf.cz |
Czech Open 2010 –
Prosper Golf Club – Composite Course:
Holes 1-17 Old Course + Hole 18 New Course
GREENS
Type of grass - Creeping Bentgrass
Height of cut - 3.25mm
Speed/stimpmeter reading - 10’0’’
Any specific comments - Undulating greens, especially holes 1, 3, 7, 11 and 12.
FAIRWAYS
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis & Lolium
Height of cut - 14mm
General width and contouring - Average width
Any specific comments - Fairways are on the soft side due to the heavy rain that has affected the course recently and during teh summer.
TEES / COLLARS
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis & Lolium
Height of cut - 10mm
Any specific comments - None
ROUGH
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis & Lolium
Height of cut
- semi - 32mm
- intermediate - 64mm
- rough - 110mm/ Last topped Monday inside the ropes.
Any specific comments -
WEATHER
Weather in advance - Extreme rainfall during the summer.
Forecast for Tournament - Chance of showers until Thursday morning then dry and sunny.
FORECAST FOR TOURNAMENT
Mainly sunny and dry with a chance of rain Sunday evening.
COURSE
Opened - 2001
Course designer - Miguel Angel Jiménez
Special features - Quite hilly & tree lined with elevated tee shots on holes 5, 7, 12, 14, 15 & 18.
General playability - Accuracy off the tee will be very important this week.
Undulating / flat - Undulating
Tree lined / exposed - Tree lined
Many / few water hazards - Water hazards in play on holes 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15 & 18.
Changes to the course - The 18th tee has been extended by 8 metres.
OTHER FEATURES
Any other features of the course or the event that may be of interest to web readers. - There are two courses at Prosper GC, both designed by M.A. Jiménez. For the event we will play holes 1-17 of the Old Course and Hole 18 of the New Course.
- Very picturesque course with spectacular views of the surrounding mountains.
| Hole | Par | Yards | Metres | Hole | Par | Yards | Metres | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 598 | 547 | 10 | 5 | 575 | 526 | |||||
| 2 | 4 | 498 | 455 | 11 | 4 | 428 | 391 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 447 | 409 | 12 | 4 | 457 | 418 | |||||
| 4 | 3 | 201 | 184 | 13 | 4 | 335 | 306 | |||||
| 5 | 5 | 576 | 527 | 14 | 4 | 428 | 391 | |||||
| 6 | 3 | 198 | 181 | 15 | 3 | 168 | 154 | |||||
| 7 | 4 | 458 | 419 | 16 | 5 | 553 | 506 | |||||
| 8 | 4 | 386 | 353 | 17 | 3 | 216 | 198 | |||||
| 9 | 4 | 469 | 429 | 18 | 4 | 461 | 422 | |||||
| Out | 36 | 3831 | 3504 | In | 36 | 3621 | 3312 | |||||
| 72 | 7452 | 6816 |