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Tatra Golf Club, Tatranská Lomnica. (1909-1914 and 1936-1939)
Golf was played at Tatranská Lomnica from as early as 1908, and in 1909 the first golf tournament in Hungary was held there, as the town still belonged to Hungary at the time. Asearly as 1912, the first Hungarian Golf Championships, played for the travelling trophy of Count Géza Leopold Zichy, took place here. The first winner was, aptly enough, a Dr v. Magyar.
The architect of the first Hungarian golf course, located in the High Tatras and then part of Hungary, was the later Hungarian golf icon Dezső Lauber. He also served as secretary and later president of the Tatra Club, as well as secretary of the Hungarian Olympic Committee. The club’s secretariat was located in Budapest at Eszterházy utca 22. The course was frequented mainly by Hungarians, as well as by English and American players who either lived in Vienna or spent the summer season there. Golf at Tatranská Lomnica or Tátralomnic as it was called by then in Hungarian language, continued until 1914.
In the mid-1930s a golf course was briefly reopened in the town, which by then belonged to Czechoslovakia. However, it existed only for a short period, and contemporary reports speak rather poorly of its condition. In 1937, Engineer Charvat, together with the German golf architect von Limburger, produced new plans for the course, and there is also a photograph from that year showing golfers at Tatranská Lomnica. In the Scottish Golfer’s Handbook, the course is listed only once, in 1937.
Entry from the 1914 Nisbet’s Golf Yearbook.
Hotel sticker showing a lady golfer.
Christoph Meister
December 2025
The exact location of the courses still to be found.