Gut Düneburg is a tranquil golf resort in a rural area and is blessed with some great terrain for its course. The first three holes are of the moorland type and gently undulated as they wind their way through the forest. The fourth hole makes a great transition into more open land, as the following holes play around a couple of lakes with an assortment of heroic water carries. A bunch of Scandinavian style holiday cottages are also located there, but they fit nicely into the surroundings. Instead of lining the fairways, the developer put them on the other side of the lakes and in an irregular cluster rather than rows. The entire area is sandy, as evidenced by the numerous natural bunkers that are played as waste areas.

At the 9th hole starts an exasperating walk, that actually leaves the golf course, only to re-enter at the clubhouse, where the golfer has to pass the 18th green and go back up towards the first tee in order to find the 10th behind it. An easy solution to this dilemma would be to simply switch the nines, which would cut the walk into two parts and the longer one would be after the round. The reason for this awkward routing is probably that the 18th is the signature hole and the back 9 seems to be received more favorably in general.

Holes 10-18 were built on a giant sand drift with yet more natural bunkers and an occasional patch of heather. Unfortunately the heathland character seems to not play much of a role in the maintenance meld, as there are all sorts of young trees and greedy shrubs growing in-between. The course still does play firm, but not as much as the carefully groomed heathland courses in England. In any event, there are a number of great holes that also feature some ground game. The culmination is the 18th hole, a par 4 dogleg left with the ultimate penal approach. Only after a 100% perfect drive can the golfer hope to attack the peninsula green through a gap in the trees and off a sidehill/downhill lie.

Things are generally pretty low key at Gut Düneburg and the course doesn't shove its features into the player's face, but there is a quiet air of quality underlying everything. The variety of the different types of terrain is rare and many holes have a sound strategy. Replay interest should be high and the entire place is easy to spend time at.