Nordic Golf Guide is a personal project exploring golf across the Nordic region through place, landscape and travel.

It begins from a simple idea: that golf in this part of Europe deserves to be written about with proper attention to setting. Not only the courses themselves, but the wider experience around them — the landscape, the journey, the light, the rhythm of a round, and the distinct feel of playing in different Nordic countries.

The site will grow gradually through a mix of guides, travel pieces, reflections and articles about specific places. Some posts will be practical, some more atmospheric, but the aim is the same throughout: to encourage people to see the Nordic region as one of the most interesting and overlooked places in Europe to play golf.

I’m Ian Gavin, a writer and golfer who has lived in Stockholm for many years. Nordic Golf Guide grows out of a long-standing interest in the region itself, and in the ways that golf changes when it is shaped by different landscapes, cultures and climates.

This is not intended to be a review site in the usual sense. The ambition is to build something calmer, more reflective and more place-led: a body of writing about golf across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the wider Nordic world.