Venue							Promoter
Prosper Golf Resort 739 12 Celadna 741 Czech Republic Tel: +42 0558 440410/11 Fax: +42 0558 440401 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)							Jiri Novosad 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: novosad@prosper-golf.cz Course Website: www.prosper-golf.cz

Greens
Type of grass - Creeping Bent grass
Height of cut - 3.3mm
Speed / stimpmeter reading - 10'6"
Any specific comments - undulating greens, specially the 3rd, 6th, 11th and 12th

Fairways
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis and Lolium
Height of cut - 14mm
General width and contouring - average width
Any specific comments - fairways are on the soft side due to heavy rain that affected the course recently and during the summer

Tees / collars
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis and Lolium
Height of cut - 9mm

Rough
Type of grass - Poa Pratensis and Lolium
Height of cut - semi 32mm, intermediate 64mm, rough 90mm (last topped last Friday inside the ropes)

Weather
Weather in advance - extreme rainfall during the summer with 43mm Tuesday night
Forecast for tournament - chance of thunderstorms Friday afternoion otherwise dry and sunny

Course
Opened - 2001
Course designer - Miguel Angel Jiménez
Special features - elevated tee shots on holes 9, 12, 15 and 18
General playability - long course that will play even longer due to soft fairways
Undulating / flat - undulating
Tree lined / exposed - tree lined
Many / few water hazards - water hazards in play on holes 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15 and 18
Changes to the course - The following layout, called the "Middle Course" will be played this year:

Front nine: holes 10 to 17 of the New Course and hole 18 of the Old Course. These nine holes have not been played before.

Back nine: Holes 10 to 17 of the Old Course and hole 18 of the New Course. These 9 holes have been played in the previous 2 editions of the Czech Open

Other features
- There are two courses at Prosper GC called the New and Old Courses. This week will be played on a composite course called the Middle Course
- Very picturesque course with spectacular views of the surrounding mountains
- Feature hole is the 15th, a par 3 with an elevated tee and an island green