Medical Open Golf Tournament

The first traces of doctors’ golf can probably be seen in the originally casual arrangements of physician friends who met to play golf around June 17th (then still a public holiday). Golf wasn’t quite “in” yet when the tournament was launched in 1955. Prof. Dr. Alfred Koch from Münster and Freudenstadt’s spa director Dr. Weidenbach officially invited the first German Doctors’ Golf Tournament to Freudenstadt on the reopened 9-hole course.

A few years later, in 1961, Dr. Hans-Georg Dehnhardt (d. 2001) established the International Golf Tournament for Doctors in Bad Kissingen. And after that, there were also open doctors’ golf games in Bad Salzuflen. For many years, these three independent, supra-regional golf tournaments for doctors remained essentially the same. Until the desire arose to determine the German Champion among all doctors’ golfers.

Since 1982, Bad Kissingen has been the permanent host of the German Doctors’ Golf Championship, thanks to its then-only 18-hole golf course and its excellent infrastructure. To increase the tournament’s advertising and sponsorship opportunities, the championship will be held in even closer cooperation with GC Bad Kissingen—as the permanent host venue—starting in 2014.