Karl F. Grohs Golf

With over 45 years of profound professional experience, Karl F. Grohs has been working independently as a trend-setting landscape architect in the field of ecological planning and golf course architecture since graduating from the Technical University of Hanover. From 1976 to 1994, he worked together with R. Dröge and R. Preissmann as the "Ecology and Planning Group". Karl F. Grohs is also co-founder of the "Deutsche Golf Consult (DGC, 1978-2004) under which 260 golf courses were conceived and designed.



Karl F. Grohs has built up an excellent reputation as a designer of prestigious golf courses. Among the best known projects are: TPC-Golfplatz Gut Kaden/Hamburg (27 holes), Golf Resort Bitburger Land (18 holes), GC Baden-Baden (18 holes), GC Lübeck-Travemünde (27 holes), GC Gütermann Gutach (9 holes), GC Mannheim-Viernheim (18 holes), GC Castrop-Rauxel (27 holes), GC Mülheim an der Ruhr (18 holes) as well as three of the "Leading Golf Courses" in Germany GC Konstanz (18 holes), GC Bad Neuenahr (18 holes) and GC Würzburg (18 holes).



Many of his projects have been awarded international prizes or won design competitions. Karl F. Grohs is also the author of numerous German-language specialist books and articles on golf course planning.



A milestone for the future is the agreement with the office of Andreas Kipar (KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten). Major projects in Germany are managed by Karl F. Grohs as Senior Advisor; all resort and leisure projects acquired abroad are implemented in close cooperation with the office in Milan.



Main areas of activity are:

- Golf course architecture

- Landscape architecture



Golf course architecture:

You can't just build a good golf course, you first have to find it in the respective landscape. Because it is already there, in the landscape. With a lot of experience, intuition and creativity, every single fairway is sought out, the playfulness of the terrain is understood and worked out.

For us, golf course architecture is not simply design, but a holistic task of great complexity. It combines the demands of golfing strategy and challenge, as well as natural and landscape aesthetics with ecological and economic factors. The result is always an individual, unique and vibrant golf course.

With experience from over 280 golf projects, creativity and intuition, we search for every single fairway. In doing so, we showcase natural topography both artfully and sensitively and create vibrant courses with long-term potential. Close personal support for each client is just as much a matter of course in golf course architecture as absolute adherence to the budget.



Landscape architecture:

The centuries-old process of landscape architecture has always been about optimizing the existing landscape and combining it with people's needs. Today, sustainable planning is also a political requirement - for us, this is a matter of course.

A sensitive approach to spatial and material resources is the highest maxim of our work, as is the empathetic recognition and understanding of the changing demands of the people who populate the planned spaces and experience them anew every day.



With the sub-items:



- Urban development and green spaces:

As early as 1977, the "Ecology and Planning" office under the direction of Karl F. Grohs pioneered a progressive, ecologically oriented planning approach as the basis for an innovative collaboration with urban planning offices such as Kuhn-Boskamp-pp, Professor Volkamer, Dr. Ammann-Dejozé and RKW - to name the most important long-standing collaborations.
In cooperation with the KIPAR LAND office, Milan / Duisburg and others, these approaches also represent an important field of development in the international leisure sector.



- Park facilities:

The planning and creation of parks is a particularly exciting task for us. It starts with the client. We need to recognize and sensitively define their feeling for the landscape and their fascination with it. We harmonize these wishes with natural and design principles, while avoiding short-term fashions and mainstream influences. The result is a landscape with a recognizable character that offers different attractions every month and develops in an annually growing, dynamic process.



- Private gardens:

For us, a garden is not a rigid decoration, but a living organism. We plan and realize private gardens that correspond exactly to the wishes and nature of the owner, but at the same time carry change and development within them. With great empathy and precise knowledge of the laws of plant communities, our design lays the right foundation and creates an impulse. Then the garden can grow, flourish - and become its owner's very own personal oasis.