The Grindavik Golf Course On The Plate Boundaries - Seriously Damaged
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- This is the beautiful and very special but seriously damaged golf course is situated in a graben on the plate boundaries just a few km. west of Grindavik. It's been closed since the November 10th event and awaits approval from the authorities after a ground penetration scan in order to detect hidden fractures. If that goes well, it will be opened in a few weeks but i'm leaving a link to the club.
It's name is Húsatóftavöllur and the upper area is a unique natural pearl where the European plate meet the American plate in all their glory, but it's also making it prone to the volcanic/ tectonic elements caused all this damages on November 10th last year. The footage is only a few days old.
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Greetings from Iceland. Gylfi
Thanks, Gylfi. A course where the rough is... rough.
You got that right :)
Gylfi...your videos should receive an award! Calm, beautiful, excellent musical choice.....WONDERFUL ❤
Somehow it takes something as ordinary and uneventful as a golf course to bring home the enormity of what has happened. Thank you for this reminder, beautifully filmed and perfect sound track.
Great choice of music, indeed!
At least they don't have to spend money putting in bunkers, traps, and other obstacles. Mother Nature does it for them! and they change all the time, so every time you play it's a different course.
thanks for the video
Some players at the 89th hole have run out of balls (not cohonas) and have sent out messengers to others at hole 156 trying to find out just how many holes there are.
On the one hand, this whole situation is devastating for the people of Grindavik.
On the other, it puts a whole new dimension to the phrase 'Dam it, lost my ball again!'
(Sorry I adhere to the phrase 'if you don't laugh, you would cry')
Two thoughts.
1. That would be expensive to repair!
2. The golf course shows the scale of the rifts in a more understandable way than what houses do. Dang, they are big.
my thought: don't bother, rich people can find something else to do.
You know it's going to be a tough game of golf when the bunker on the first stretches all the way to the 19th hole...
I dont think i have a club that can chip out of a 50m deep hole in the ground. Sand Wedge isnt going to cut it.
@@seankelly69 Mmmmm.... open-faced Club Sand Wedge... :P
The only golf course on earth which can change overnight.
Thank you very much for the important contribution you make about Iceland. A truly unique country.
My pleasure!
I know you have a sense of humour, Gylfi, so looking on the bright side, anyone can now get a hole-in-one. The only problem is that you may never find the ball again.
I see that golfers around here have a sense of humour and i like that :) It's not making things better to whine, this is just what it is, and humour is a great way to deal with it :)
So sorry for the golf course damage and all who are missing it...but this video is amazing in its reality. And it is good for me, a non-Icelander, to see the up close and personal loss that so many Icelanders must be feeling with the current slow and difficult destruction of a way of life once lived in an amazing and thriving community.😘 Thank you for the reality check, Gylfi! I sincerely hope there will be a renewal of this community and all who live/have lived here.
Looks like someone is going to have to seriously redefine 'par' for this course...
Really puts into perspective the forces as work.
Glad it was useful :)
Masterful. Haunting imagery and soundtrack for a community caught in limbo.
Nothing wrong with a FEW more hazards on the course 👍
That grabben is the New out of bounds 👍
Mother is not done yet .
So many people have sat on that bench enjoying the beauty mother earth has been creating for millions of years.
Your country is so beautiful - just as is was found. When I see your beautiful footage over this unique area, I wonder why anyone wants to cover it in manicured lawn.
Thanks again for sharing your footage.
Because golf is very enjoyable past time for some people, as well as good exercise, and you can't play it on gravel.
Iceland had forests until humans came and destroyed everything. ;-)
So they can play golf? That area is a vast endless plain of lava fields. A few fairways in an otherwise grey wasteland is not an issue.
That part of iceland is visited by almost no one, so it would hardly even be noticed.
@3333927 Not there they didn't. Those are lava fields.
@@brucetidwell7715Past times? You mean golf only belongs in the past? A bit harsh, I'd say, but I agree that there are lots of better pastimes.
Hitting a ball into the rough takes on a whole new meaning here.
Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase *hole in one* ⛳
Thanks for the labels. That really helps put the map to the video!!
Thanks :)
That's not golf course damage. That's extra hazards.
Thank you for all the documenting you are doing. These are sobering views.
Glad you like them!
That actually looks better than some of the local courses here in Scotland 😂🏴thanks for sharing and stay safe🙂🙏🏻
Now that's a new definition of "rough."
👍
The only golfcourse in the world where greens and fairways may change while you are playing...
But it is and remains sad. I was in Grindavik 6 years ago and loved the place. The Bryggjan place with all you can eat lobster soup, our very odd hotelroom on the topfloor of a fish warehouse. And ofcourse the Blue Lagoon. Hope it will all settle down.
The Perils and Pitfalls of building civilization on seismically active land. Especially at Plate Boundaries. You never know when Freya is going to come for her nickel.
It gives a new meaning to Crazy Golf! 🤣
What a challenging course now. Good luck finding your ball in amongst that lot! New bunkers look an absolute bugger!!!
Amazing to see the greens all buckled like that
Wow, incredible. And incredibly sad. Thanks for your beautiful video and perfect music pairing.
Thank you very much!
New challenges for the golfers
Wow welche Kraft hinter den Bildern steht 😮Danke für dieses schöne Video!🤗
Thanks Gylfi! This cracks are unbelievable. Can’t imagine how this must be. All these openings, fissures. In one second there was a field and in the other second there is a deep hole..
The damage is great indeed. This makes the golf course even more special with an typical Icelandic flavour.
Oh noes! The golf course! Anything but that! How will they ever... Oh wait, golf? Phew! Carry on 😛
Is it a free drop if your ball falls into a lava filled abyss? This is a fascinating video. Thanks Gylfi.
Such beauty and also such contrast. Green patches among baron land. That land displacement is cary but at the same time amazing
As always thank you and keep safe. Suzanne from Australia
Amazing piece of music for this brilliant footage. Thank you Gylfi
Blessings to you and yours coming at you from southern oregon.
Much appreciated...
That is a challenge! Hopefully it can be a useable golf course again so people can enjoy. The footage really shows the plate boundary very well.
Was going to say, "Put a new crack on the hazards list". I know it's hard for them and for Iceland in general, but sometimes you have to find something to laugh at, to keep from crying.
Unbeleavable but yes reality shows us how mother nature is in control. Thank you Gylfi. :-)
You could definitely get a hole-in-one. Hopefully things settles down and this course gets used again.
Presumably, the Out of Bounds there is constantly changing. 😮
Your video gives a better overall picture of the damages.
Thanks, new update on the way
This makes the golf quest more interesting. They can just change the par ratings each hole on the course. Lava bunkers would be an awesome addition to the game. :-D
🙂 welcome
That puts a new definition on a Golf Course Hazard.
Wow! Great footage! Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thanks for watching
Brings it home... so sad what has been happening to what looks like a pretty coastal town.
Volcano Traps added to the Course... I hope the people of Grindavik find beautiful new homes with friendly neighbors, hope the Harbour stays untouched so the Fisherman can still work.
Beautiful video of the faults and fissures in the Grindavik golf course. It is not as exciting as the glowing lava flows, but the stretching of the Grindavik city and the adjacent areas including the golf course on November 10th that formed the faults and fissures is more damaging in the long run.
Unreal! Thanks for this
My pleasure!
Yet another hazard on the course .. OH, and for a special challenge, try playing through the lava flows when they come! Beautiful country, beautiful imagery, beautiful music. Thanks so much for sharing - though every time I watch one of these, I want to come to your country to plant TREES in every little low where I can mix some of the gritty soil with a bucketful of seaweed from the beach! [Just planted 12 at our own home, to replace five lost in winter storms. Sorry, but I've had this thing about planting trees in treeless areas that could support them since the early 1970s.....]
Wow thank you for sharing, scary to see the land expanding for that is what it truly is. Scary for your people but Iceland is expanding and growing. Fingers crossed no one else gets hurt, bad enough for a worker to have disappeared doing his job and is no more
Wow! That is pretty surreal!
Thanks Gylfi. Such devastation. Lucky there was no habitation along the line of the crack...
And this was way worse in town, filmed it a while ago but it's not a pleasant task to finish that video to be honest Alex...
@@JustIcelandic I can well imagine.
This is all so very heartbreaking for Gryndavic
Thank you, again, Gylfi.
Thanks again!
Its even better now!!
🌋 🏌♂️ Four!!!!
Very impressive, thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Small airplane landed on a golf course, golfers just played through the new hazard, not much stops a determined golfer. Nice golf course interesting roughs and traps.
If my father still played golf, he would play that course it is just a little bit of rough.
Thank you Gylfi. Very nice. :-)
Thank you! 😊
Well, normal golf courses have puny ponds and sand pits - this one has a fissure where the island breaks apart. At least thats something special... :)
Thank you, unique footage ✨
Many thanks!
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thanks for visiting
Really interesting footage! ❤
Many thanks!
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I spent a decade across the street from the 14th tee of a golf course.
The scenery is so beautiful. I just think there are more changes to come....
Great music!
Thanks :)
Wow, that's quite the damage! :( . Great shot of it at 2:40. Thanks for showing us & being so informative.
at 2:40 crack that has been there for hundreds of years and we have used the water that is down there for watering the course and also the fish farm that is half a mile from it is using the water
Quite the obstacle course!
Please enable captions. ) Great video shot. I don't think the golf course will be popular anymore. How about the Blue Lagoon?
No problem - just rebrand it as Grindavik EXTREME golf course - they will come flocking!
Why not . . . Looks like fun.
Its actually quite impressive that they managed to lay a golf course on all that ancient lava in the first place... but yes, it must be so worrying not knowing what kind of normality ( if any) the people of Grindavik will have. I was lucky to visit the little cafe on the harbour back in 2019, and enjoyed the most wonderful lobster soup!! 😢
Some lava traps on the fields as a novelty. Those will be tricky to hit the ball from :)
It gives a whole new meaning to the term, putting from the rough.
A bit like a Scottish Links course… and at the same time, purely Icelandic.
Would love to play that one one day…
Thank you, Gylfi. 🙂
You should! and welcome to Iceland :)
we will be opening the course probably in next week or the week after that, it will be in fantastic condition this summer
You can plainly see the ground displacement 😔 Terribly sad to see this 😪
Beautiful golf course
Absolutely
Wow...... Amazing. But also 😢
The axis of the plate boundary runs almost under Swartsengi these faults are at an angle to the rift line but are intimately associated with that rifting of course. I think the whole of the peninsula can be said to lie on the plate boundary, so in the broader sense you are quite right 👍
What a sad little course.😢
Hi Gylfi,
Looks like a greater handicap is needed.
Personally I’m not that fond of golf courses because they usually come instead of nature. You get a monoculture of grass in return where usually the rich(er) people spend their surplus money.
Stay safe.
I dont belive i am saying this but thank you for the wonderful music that was in the vid
love the music!
Very sad. Appropriate music. Good content as always.
Thanks 👍
Thank you
Hi,in Germany we say:O weia,that means in a nice way....shit.Its too bad for the Golf course.Greetings from Brunsvik
Certainly a challenging course.
A few new bunkers on the course. Interesting place to put a golf course to be fair, I wonder who made that decision!
Volcanoes use alot of water.....like a huge plumbing system!
Nature telling humans, you don't belong here. Humans tell nature, "oh yeah, watch this!" Nature replies in like, "you don;t belong here."
Such a shame but makes you realise how dangerous it is. I would not want to stay there now 😥
Me too, watched it again after seeing Gylfis film.
It looks like a zipper under pressure and it popped. Thanks for the video. Do you have before video? A combo of the two would be nice if you happened to have it. Have a great weekend. ❤
And they say Iceland is tearing apart about 2cm per year. But sometimes it's 1m or much more in a minute...
Well, Golf course... Not my kind of people who go there anyway...
But still, sad to see the destruction from the power of mother earth in one way, but beautiful too, on the other hand!
2017 was definitely the wrong year to be in Iceland for me. Nothing was active, nowhere!
Gosh, what would I give to be there these days...
BTW... great footage Gylfi, thanks...
Pretty tricky hazards on this course.
The fairway is a bit of a misnomer now. 😉
I suppose it’ll be some time before they map where all the hidden fissures are, let alone determine whether repairs are even possible, let alone profitable. The exposed fissures looked quite deep! Though I’ve met golfers who would enjoy the deep hazards. Like something from a “most exotic golf courses” calendar.
Still, for a course not being maintained, the greens look well kept… an advantage of your climate, etc. in Iceland, I suppose.
It is maintained and will be open in the next one or two weeks, I cut the greens two weeks ago and the manager of the course has probably gone over them few times after that, the course will be in fantastic condition this summer
Excellent footage.. was the aurora visible last night? (Silly question). It was here in North Wales UK. 😊
Well, here in the countryside we learned to play football on such grounds. 😆