Hills Golf Club is a golf club located in Mölndal near Gothenburg , Sweden . It hosted the Nordea Masters in August 2018, a European Tour event.
5-583: Situated ten kilometers south of central Gothenburg, the 18-hole course, designed by Arthur Hills , opened in 2004. At a cost of SEK 175 million it is one of the most ambitions golf projects in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area , only rivaled by Vallda Golf & Country Club , opened in 2009. A victim of the European debt crisis , in 2012 a consortium fronted by former European Tour player Johan Edfors from nearby Varberg bought
10-633: A Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan . Hills designed his first golf course in 1967: the course was Brandywine Country Club in Toledo, Ohio . Hills stated that his main goal when designing a golf course was to make it playable for everyone of every skill level. Hills designed golf courses in Portugal (2001), Croatia (2012), and Sweden . Hills later served as chief designer for Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates. Much of
15-490: A lake. Golfers Beatrice Wallin , Sofie Bringner , Hanna-Sofia Leijon , Carin Hjalmarsson , Joel Sjöholm , Niclas Fasth and Denmark's Thomas Bjørn have all been attached to the club in various capacities. Arthur Hills Arthur Hills (1930 – May 18, 2021 ) was an American golf course designer . He designed more than 200 new golf courses, including private, resort, upscale, and public golf courses around
20-497: The club. Edfors redesigned six of the holes and the new course was inaugurated in June 2014. The Hills course is true to its name and laid out across a rugged landscape through woodland, marshland, forest ridges and rocky outcrops. It begins and ends in an enormous, natural amphitheater, with the 1st and 10th tees and the clubhouse all sitting on a huge rocky promontory overlooking the 9th and 18th holes, which are played on either side of
25-429: The world. In addition, Arthur Hills' firm, Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates, has been requested to renovate or modify more than 120 courses, including some of the country's most renowned clubs, often in preparation for major USGA and PGA Championships. Hills was born in 1930 in Toledo, Ohio . He attended Michigan State University , where he earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Agronomy) in 1953 and
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