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On the Eberle golf course you could practice the sport for 30 years without having to prove that you were eligible to play.
Not anymore.
In the background is the new police station building at the Penny roundabout.
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At the Eberle golf course you could indulge in golf without belonging to a club.
That's enough of that.
Operations will no longer be resumed.
Gauting
- Over and over: The Gauting golf course on Robert-Koch-Allee next to the Asklepios Clinic will not resume operations this year.
Renate Gorke from the Allgäu operating family confirmed this when asked by Starnberger Merkur.
“The lease with the farmer expires this year,” she says.
In addition, after the Corona closure, Gauting's golfers no longer returned.
“Our family is giving up the club-free Greenfield with one laughing eye and one crying eye,” said the 64-year-old.
For three decades, the family offered the sport, which is still considered an elite pastime, to everyone.
In 1973, her ex-husband, the farmer Siegfried Eberle, set up the first strawberry garden on the agricultural land just outside Munich.
“But after various crop rotations, the soil was exhausted,” says Gorke.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Siegfried Eberle created a small Gauting golf practice area on the meadow.
The special thing: Anyone and everyone could play on the greenfield - without club membership, without an annual fee and without registration - a crucial difference to the many clubs in the area where a license to play is required first.
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The sport was booming in the mid-1990s.
During this time, the three siblings Renate, Manfred and Gisela Gorke took over the place from the Allgäu farmer Siegfried Eberle.
The daily green fee – i.e. the pitch fee – cost 25 euros last season.
Because: After just an hour, the players were through on the small six-hole course.
Normally a golf park has 18 holes and is three times as large - the leased agricultural area at the Asklepios Clinic measures just four hectares.
After the corona pandemic, the operating family struggled.
Because when it was allowed to play outdoors again, the golfers stayed away from the small Gautingen practice area - and caught up on their long-distance trips.
There was no uptick in visitor numbers in the 2023 season either.
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According to Gorke, climate change is making matters worse: “At the start of the season in March and April 2023 it only rained,” she says.
In the sweltering midday heat of over 30 degrees, as is the case in summer, no one goes to the training ground “except for a few brave ones”.
Her brother, who had taken over the greenkeeping, had to leave Kaufbeuren early in the morning at four o'clock in the morning to water the course in Gauting because of the drought during the season.
There is a lack of perspective because: “Things won’t get better with climate change.”
On the one hand, Renate Gorke regrets the end of her golf course.
“The area with a small restaurant was sustainable and accessible to the people of Würmtal without having to travel long distances to a clubhouse.” On the other hand, in 2023 they sat outside in the scorching heat at lunchtime, without a cooled building and without a single customer.
That's why she was somewhat relieved about the end, said the self-confessed nature lover.
Regular customers are already aware that the Eberle golf course is now history.
Christine Cless Wesle
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