Albatross Golf Resort championship course
Albatross Golf Resort championship course: Keith Preston (2009). Par 72, 7,444 yards. Todd Clements won the 2023 D+D Real Czech Masters here with 266 (−22).
Albatross Golf Resort championship course: Keith Preston (2009). Par 72, 7,444 yards. Todd Clements won the 2023 D+D Real Czech Masters here with 266 (−22).
Albatross Golf Resort championship course: Keith Preston (2009). Par 72, 7,444 yards. Todd Clements won the 2023 D+D Real Czech Masters here with 266 (−22).
Updated October 24, 2026
11 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Todd Clements | 266 (−22) | by 1 stroke · DP World Tour |
| 2022 | Maximilian Kieffer | 200 (−16) | by 1 stroke · DP World Tour |
| 2021 | Johannes Veerman | 273 (−15) | by 2 strokes · DP World Tour |
| 2019 | Thomas Pieters | 269 (−19) | by 1 stroke · DP World Tour |
| 2018 | Andrea Pavan | 266 (−22) | by 2 strokes · DP World Tour |
| 2017 | Haydn Porteous | 275 (−13) | by 2 strokes · DP World Tour |
| 2016 | Paul Peterson | 273 (−15) | by 1 stroke · European Tour |
| 2015 | Thomas Pieters | 268 (−20) | by 3 strokes · European Tour |
| 2014 | Jamie Donaldson | 274 (−14) | by 2 strokes · European Tour |
Ladies European Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Melissa Reid | ||
| 2011 | Jade Schaeffer |
Transport entrepreneur Jiří Šimáně built Albatross for a reported €30 million, opening it in summer 2009, and said hosting professional tournaments was essential to prove the Czech Republic was serious about golf.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Albatross Golf Resort · Golf Australia: The Preview – D+D Real Czech Masters
The course hosted the Ladies European Tour's Prague Golf Masters in 2011 (won by Jade Schaeffer) and 2012, when Melissa Reid won in her first event since the death of her mother.
Thomas Pieters won the D+D Real Czech Masters at Albatross in 2015, finished second by a shot in 2016, and won again in 2019, holding off Adri Arnaus by one stroke.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Albatross Golf Resort · Golf Australia: The Preview – D+D Real Czech Masters
The course is laid out in two returning nines, and each nine closes with water-laden holes near the clubhouse.
The slightly doglegged par-4 18th has a creek down the right of the fairway and a lake stretching up to the green on the left.
Water hazards added after the course first hosted the Czech Masters in 2014 include two either side of the green on the par-5 1st.
Source: Golf Australia: The Preview – D+D Real Czech Masters
The resort occupies a moderately hilly 200-acre site beside the Český kras (Bohemian Karst) protected area, within sight of Prague.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Albatross Golf Resort · Albatross Golf Resort: About Course
Keith Preston
Bunker renovation that reduced the number of bunkers and made the remaining ones more visible; new water hazards (including two beside the 1st green) were added at some point after 2014.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Albatross Golf Resort · Golf Australia: The Preview – D+D Real Czech Masters
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | D+D Real Czech Masters 24–27 August 2023 | Todd Clements | DP World Tour |
| 2022 | D+D Real Czech Masters 18–21 August 2022 | Maximilian Kieffer | shortened · DP World Tour |
| 2021 | D+D Real Czech Masters 19–22 August 2021 | Johannes Veerman | DP World Tour |
| 2020 | D+D Real Czech Masters 20–23 August 2020 | canceled · DP World Tour | |
| 2019 | D+D Real Czech Masters 15–18 August 2019 | Thomas Pieters | DP World Tour |
| 2018 | D+D Real Czech Masters 23–26 August 2018 | Andrea Pavan | DP World Tour |
| 2017 | D+D Real Czech Masters 31 August – 3 September 2017 | Haydn Porteous | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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