Description: To conclude the end of the holiday we went to the farmer's club play in Haarlem. A fun activity for a large group of people in the outdoors in a relaxed way to entertain.
Boerengolf in Haarlem
Address: Song Farm
Liedeweg 32
2065 AJ Haarlem
Tel. 023-5313919
Email info@liedehoeve.nl
www.liedehoeve.nl
The farm is situated in the leisure Spaarnewoude in the North of Holland. It is a family business with many cows and sheep, with 30 acres of pasture.
How to find it?
Driving on the Amsterdam canal (A200), take the exit Haarlem / Waarderpolder and Keep to the left, exit Haarlem. You are now driving parallel to the Amsterdam canal. Then you drive straight to Hotel / Restaurant 'de Malts. There you go left, under the A200, across the rail track and continue straight. After about 500 meters is located on the right Song Farm.
Reservations
Reservations are required, this can be through phone or Internet.
Parking
You can park on the farm, you come with a large group than it is quite full and you have all sorts of back and forth between cars and scour the yard again downwards.
The game
Boerengolf (famers golf) looks like normal golf. You hit a ball with a stick and tries to go from hole to hole with as few strokes as possible to make the entire trail. You play with groups of up to 5 people. Each group has a left and a right golf club. The club consists of a rod with a small lump at the bottom. The ball is about the size of a handball. The course consists of 10 holes, plotted in various fields with ditches separated. A hole is marked by a blue flag on a stick with underneath a bucket buried. To turn, turn the ball toward the hole and you try each group in as few strokes as possible to make the entire trail. The distance between the holes varies from 50 to 150 meter. The terrain is very uneven and in many places the grass is very high. There are many cow patties in the pasture, manure is also on land treatment. When you come to play this game you have to be not in your best clothes. The barn can figure out your boots and pick which is not a luxury. During the game you pass many animals, we were in the evening and rabbits hopped around in the pasture. The farmer had his herd of cows in the pasture. Around you could see sheep and lambs in the pasture next door, there are many grassland birds.
Cost:
Adults: 8 euro’s
Children up to 10 years 4 euro’s
Groups of 20 or 7 euro’s
Arrangements:
• On arrival coffee and tea with cake 3 euro’s per person
• Drink at pasture with a tractor delivered 2 euro each
• After several drinks 1.75 euro’s
• Picnicking is available, prices ranging between 8.75 and 17.75 euro
My experience
We were received by the farmer in a large barn. There could everyone change their shoes for boots. The farmer explained the game and held a nice story about you or the concave or convex side of the shoe had to beat. We were brought to the meadow. Each group had a form with writing down, which is also about the location of the 10 holes was drawn. On the form you need by state tally of how many hits you travelled the trail. As I wrote before you skip over ditches and often is the ball in the water. With the stick you have the ball or get out again. Yourself you do not have to jump the ditch, there are small, sometimes shaky, bridges over the ditches made. It takes about 1 ½ hours for the entire route to go. After you in the big barn on another wait. There are toilets and a sink to wash your hands. No luxury after all the cow poop! In the barn you can buy drinks cans and there are chairs to sit on. It was a nice getaway for a large group of people, after 1 ½ hours, however, you are ready, so what else you have to come up with to fill the evening. I thought it was fun to do and can also recommend others do. I liked the extra selection between all these animals to walk.
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