Sunset is at 1 a.m. So is your tee time. A yardage book for a links course 68° north.
Yardage.
Issue 12 / Sep 2026
Nine degrees, a soft southwest wind, and eighteen hours of daylight.
Northern Norway
The midnight nine.
Sunset is at 1 a.m. So is your tee time. In June the sun never drops below the horizon here, so we booked the 11:40 p.m. and played until the light went gold at two.
Words and photos by Marina Vestergaard · 6 min
2nd green · 402 yd · par 4
Fig. 1: The 2nd, cut into the shoreline.
Tee
There is no clubhouse ritual at midnight. No starter, no cart girl, no group waiting on the tee. You sign for your own time, walk out past sleeping eider ducks, and hit into a sky that simply refuses to get dark. The course runs across two islands stitched by a single par three over open water. It’s the kind of hole you’d call a gimmick anywhere the scenery wasn’t doing all the talking.
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Par
6,864
Yards
2015
Opened
Jun
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The 2nd, the spit. A par four that dares you to hug the coast off the tee. The sea eats everything left; the safe line leaves a blind second. Bogey is the coward’s par and everyone makes it.
The 7th, The Sound. The one they put on the postcard: tee on one island, green on the next, 178 yards of cold Atlantic in between. At midnight the water turns pewter and you just trust the number.
The 15th, Home. The turn inland. The peaks close in behind the green, the wind finally quits, and the round stops being a scorecard and starts being a memory you’ll bore people with.
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Three more worth the flight
01
The Cliffline
Hawke’s Bay, NZ · ↗ 8,900 mi
Fairways that run out to a 460-foot cliff and simply stop. Vertigo as architecture.
02
The Headland
Co. Cork, IE · ↗ 1,300 mi
A diamond of headland ringed by ocean on all but one side. Nine holes touch the edge.
03
Spray Valley
Alberta, CA · ↗ 4,120 mi
A par three over a glacial lake, with a mountain wall doing the intimidating.
