History

Ypäjä Golf Oy, with the course name Loimijoki Golf, is located in southwestern Häme, in the municipality of Ypäjä. The association Loimijoki Golf ry (LoG) operates at the course. The golf course got its name from the Loimijoki river flowing beside it.

The course was built on an old farm, which has been inhabited by the Jaakkola family since 1539. Farming was the livelihood of the first 18 master families, and the 19th master, Osmo Jaakkola, decided to build a golf course on the farm. The course got its start thanks to farmer Osmo Jaakkola in the late 1980s, when the agricultural overproduction problem was at its height. Others left their fields fallow, but the Jaakkolas cleared their field into a driving range. In fact, a very large share of Finland's golf courses have been built partly or entirely on fields taken out of agricultural use. Play began on six holes in 1992. The farm's original main building was destroyed by fire in 1902, and the master family running the farm at the time moved into the neighboring building, which today serves as the course's main building, the clubhouse. Near the clubhouse stands an old horse stable, built in the 1800s, which was renovated in 2003 into new meeting and sauna facilities.

In 2007 Ypäjä golf course was expanded from the former 9-hole layout to 18 holes. Four familiar holes remain from the old course, preserved unchanged. The remaining 14 holes are either completely new or reshaped from the old holes. The facilities have grown and continue to be developed all the time. The stable building, dating from the 1800s, has 350 square metres of meeting and training space, a sauna and lounge areas. The golf turf and mown area on the course totals 80 hectares. On the other side of the old main building, which serves as the clubhouse, a Par 3 course was completed in the early 2020s, where disc golf is played in addition to golf

The course also gets a lot of praise from its players and other customers for preserving the idyllic rural landscape.

"Welcome to enjoy golf in a homely atmosphere, in the peace of the countryside!"

"A photo from a few decades ago, with the Clubhouse and yard in the foreground, haymaking underway on the range area."