Ljubljana Landfill Turned into Golf Course

Slovenia's capital got its fist golf course on Tuesday, as a nine-hole facility opened in just off the Ljubljana ring road. The Trnovo golf course, worth EUR 1.7m, stretches over 20 hectares of what used to be one of Ljubljana's landfills.

Trnovo is the first public golf course in Slovenia, which means that players do not need to a membership card or have their playing skills tested. Moreover, prices are considerably lower than in other golf centres in Slovenia.
According to the owner of the tenant of the course, Ales Babnik, the course took two years to built. The whole course had to be covered with a 60-centimetre layer of clay. On top of this came material excavated from the Sentvid tunnel, and a 20-centimetre layer of soil.
Babnik expects the investment to to be repaid in 10 to 12 years. According to him, the project was modeled after similar projects abroad, where transformation of landfills into parks or golf courses is a common practice.

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