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the Golf de Cicé-Blossa is located just 15 minutes from Rennes city center and on the banks of the Vilaine. Opened in 1992 and designed by the Macauley & Quenouille firm, it has a magnificent course which takes advantage of the relief and the various water obstacles. By the width of its fairways and the size of its greens, it evokes American golf courses. Technical and aesthetic, this superb 18-hole course will appeal to all golfers.
You will also find at the Domaine de Cicé-Blossac a hotel ****, a hotel residence, the spa approved Cinq Mondes as well as a restaurant with terrace overlooking the green of hole n ° 18.
Practice: It is lit until 20 p.m. 30 stations including 12 covered and 8 on grass. Practice cards on sale at the golf reception, free access.
Lit putting and pitching green as well. Free access.
Golf des Ormes is suitable for all levels of all golfers. This magnificent 18-hole par 72 course offers you an emblematic view of the Domaine's castle. Without a doubt, the Golf des Ormes is one of the most famous in the West. Wooded holes, water hazards, flower beds… Charm and elegance for this golf course in Brittany, not far from Rennes, which will offer you relaxation, whatever your score. It offers a surprising challenge for the best players and a magnificent ride for the less competitive. After your round on the golf course, you can extend your stay by reserving a room for the night for an extended stay in Les Ormes and going to visit Saint-Malo.
The Golf des Ormes provides you with:
Practice covered with 10 posts, landscaped and wooded, with targets
Grass training area
Small game training area (bunker exit, chipping and 2 green puttings)
Compact 5-hole training course
The Rennes Saint-Jacques golf course is located in the town of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, in the Brittany region.
The Rennes Saint-Jacques golf course, the largest Breton golf resort, offers you a championship course that is selective by the speed and quality of its greens. The narrowness of some fairways will force players to consider tactics. Everyone according to their level will find a suitable course.
The BlueGreen golf course in Rennes offers you complete facilities to practice your favorite sport and leisure in the best conditions, notably with its Perfect Line: connected practice and equipped with Top Tracer technology.
18-hole course "Armor" par 72: renowned, selective, wooded course, with fast and quality greens
9-hole course "l'Argoat" par 32: ideal course when you do not have time to do 18 holes, the first ranking competitions take place on L'Argoat. The greens are as good as on the Armor.
9-hole Pitch and Putt par 27 course: remarkable maintenance and greens, it allows beginners to learn their skills on an affordable and pleasant course, and experienced golfers to be able to refine their game.
Practice connected with Top Tracer technology.
By the beauty of its landscape and its 9-hole course, the Lanniron golf course will delight all lovers of the little white ball! Come work on your swing and polish your little game in its space dedicated to training:
Pitching green approach area
2 putting greens,
Practice 6 covered positions
2 training bunkers
The Domaine de l'Orangerie golf course in Lanniron offers you an interesting and varied course. No less than 1993 meters of course approved by the French Golf Federation (FFG) with 3 PAR 4 and 6 PAR 3 to play all golf shots (wood, irons, bunker exits ...).
Up and Golf Academy is the only Indoor Golf in Brittany.
Open to all, Up and Golf Academy offers a dedicated space that will give you the impression of being on a real golf course. Indeed, the room is equipped with a giant screen, and a simulator.
With real balls and real golf clubs you will play in front of a giant screen which reproduces a real 18-hole course. Up'n Golf offers a selection of more than 60 courses around the world. You will be able to play on the most beautiful golf courses in the world in all weathers.
The principle is simple: You throw the ball against the touch screen which absorbs the shock. Equipped with multiple sensors, it calculates, with the help of a radar, the trajectory of the ball and the various speed and rotation effects that you may have imposed on it.
Depending on these parameters, the Up and Golf Academy simulator can reposition the ball on the field, in line with your strike. You can then strike the following blows while modifying the geological parameters of the ground and meteorological, for more or less difficulty!
The advantage of the simulator is that it allows you to reproduce real golf sensations indoors, and in a much smaller space, while considerably varying the choice of courses.
The simulators associated with the Trackman of the Up'n Golf Academy allow you to fully enjoy a leisure area alone or with friends in an area of more than 200m2.
With a professional, warm and friendly team, Up'n Golf Academy is a must-see for all golf lovers in Brittany.
The Saint-Malo golf course is located in Le Tronchet, a charming French commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany. In a natural and unique setting, you will discover one of the most prestigious Breton golf courses
The two courses of the Golf de Saint Malo are the work of the famous Hubert Chesneau: architect of the prestigious Golf National.
The 18-hole championship course: Surcouf
The 18-hole Saint-Malo golf course is called Surcouf. It is a sports golf course, which hosts numerous and prestigious national competitions, Par 72 of more than 6000 meters with a Slope of 140, it is a real championship course. It will delight golfers looking for a difficult challenge. Indeed, the Surcouf offers real challenges between dog-legs, curved fairways, lakes, granite massifs and many strategically placed bunkers.
The 9-hole course: The “Old Course”
The “Old Course” is the second course in the Saint Malo golf course. Par 36, it deploys its greens and fairways over a distance of 2646 meters for a slope of 124. This course is accessible to all golfers. Its wooded decor, its resurgences of granite and the quality of the general maintenance of the course will seduce you. In addition, throughout the course you will enjoy a magnificent panorama of the Mireloup pond as well as the Mesnil Forest which borders this unique golf course!
Nestled in the Scorff valley, within driving distance of Lorient, the Val Queven golf course has been established for more than 30 years on the former Kerrousseau estate, a holiday resort for German submariners when they were not on mission. during the second world war. In the heart of southern Brittany, the 18-hole Val Queven golf course is located on the edge of Morbihan and Finistère, around ten kilometers from Lorient, close to the roads connecting Vannes to Quimper.
It will then be time to relax at the clubhouse where the simple and warm table will make you fully appreciate your day at the Bluegreen Val Queven golf course.
The course:
18 holes - Par 72 - 6107 meters
Following the gentle curves of a slightly hilly terrain, the 18-hole course of the Val Queven golf course alternates elongated fairways and greens bordered by wooded hills. With a few bunkers and skillfully arranged water features your green attacks will have to be precise. In addition, these slightly wavy greens require a sharp putting and a good reading to be sure to score well. You will end with a magnificent par 4 uphill on the 18. It will then be time to relax in the clubhouse where the simple and warm table will make you fully appreciate your day at the Bluegreen Val Queven golf course.
Training area
Improve your swing in the Queven golf facilities, it's up to you to choose your training area:
Practice of 16 stations including 10 covered
Putting green
Pitching green
Training bunker
6 Pitch and Putt training holes
At the gates of Brittany, about 8km from the center of Rennes, the Golf de la Freslonnière deploys its greens and fairways on a privileged site where charm, relaxation and good life are the key words.
History
Domaine de la Freslonnière has been the story of the same family for over 800 years. Its owners are committed to preserving this heritage, and enhancing it through activities that respect this privileged environment. La Freslonnière golf course opened in June 1989.
The course
Its 18-hole course is spread over the 60 hectares of the castle park, in the heart of the forest whose hundred-year-old trees have been piously preserved. Its rhododendron beds and its many species of trees make it a charming golf course, well protected from the winds.
The Freslonnière golf course is a Par 72 of 5650 meters with omnipresent greenery. Water obstacles hidden everywhere come to spice up the game. It is a technical course where it is important to handle the ball well to play a few relatively narrow doglegs and holes. The impeccable maintenance of the greens and fairways will seduce you!
Training areas
A large practice
Two Putting-Green
A wedging area
Ideally located in the heart of the Breton Riviera, on the edge of the bay of La Forêt-Fouesnant, 15 km south of Quimper, the Cornouaille golf course has an 18-hole course (5688 meters, par 71) combining architectural qualities and techniques.
Designed by Fred and Martin Hawtree and opened in 1959, it is the oldest golf course on the south coast of Brittany.
Its exceptional site and its legendary conviviality make it a "must" for all golfers in the West of France, of which it is one of the favorites. The loyalty of many visitors, French and foreign, who return year after year, testifies to the ever-renewed pleasure they have in traversing its pleasantly diverse fairways.
A nature of generous beauty delights the eye (the view of the Glénan archipelago from holes 9, 10 and 16 is superb). A mild climate, generally sunny, specific to South Finistère, allows you to play there all year round in excellent conditions.
The terrace of its club house, located in an XNUMXth century Breton manor, overlooks an arm of the sea where a varied and graceful fauna frolic (herons, egrets, swans and barnacle geese in addition to the traditional seagulls). Harmonious setting and warm atmosphere offer the golfer the possibility of eating before or after a course.
Proshop, courses or private lessons given by a qualified teacher complete the golf course offer of the club. Carts and clubs are available for hire.
In northern Brittany, just 20 minutes from Dinan and the sea, the Corbinais golf course welcomes you for a golf trip in the Côte d'Armor countryside.
The golf course of La Corbinais consists of 9 holes. Since its creation in 1992 by Henri Beaupère, it has evolved to offer today a real golfing challenge to all lovers of this sport. It is a technical and varied course. Its fairways extend over almost 3000 meters for a Par 36. A few well-placed bunkers around the greens will require you to make judicious club choices and to know how to handle the ball.
Training area:
10 indoor practice stations
3 holes Compact
A putting green
Located in southern Finistère, the Odet golf course is less than a 5-minute drive from the seaside resort of Bénodet. This course is above all a magnificent wooded area of 130 hectares where traditional Breton embankments separate the wide fairways from the peaceful ponds.
It is undoubtedly one of the best 18-hole courses in Brittany's Finistère, ideally close to the beaches, villages and seaside resorts of the coast. A delicate end of the course makes this golf course a real strategic challenge for all golfers who love sporting challenges.
Odet Bluegreen golf training:
Compact 9-hole training course "Le Lutin" (par 27; distance 854m)
Training structures: practice (30 stations); putting green; chipping green
The Golf de Saint-Samson is a Brittany golf course with particular and unique charm. it is located in Pleumeur-Bodou in the Côtes d'Armor, in the heart of the Côte de Granit Rose near the towns of Lannion, Trégastel, Trébeurden, Perros-Guirec and Ploumanac'h.
This well-balanced course was designed in 1963 by the Scottish master architects Hawtree & Son, and inaugurated in 1965. Each hole, well separated from the others, has its own visual identity and an original design with a wide variety of situations and strokes to play.
18 really different holes, for a permanent challenge
Each hole must be examined carefully to be played well. Without climbs or breathtaking climbs, beautiful fairways extend over very gentle slopes, over a length of 5743 m (rear balls) for a par 71. Little tiring and well designed, it does not penalize good shots and leaves a possible redemption for rough shots because his rough is playable. Its fairly high slope allows you to seriously lower your handicap on good days.
Once you have left the warm and sporty atmosphere of the Club House, you will find on the course the magical atmosphere of the Breton forests, where one expects at every turn of the forest, to discover Marion du Faouët, elves and leprechauns ... The St-Samson golf course is now one of the finest 18 holes in Brittany, according to the quality charter of the Golf Bretagne club.
Inscribed in the privileged setting of the Bay of Morlaix, protected from the prevailing winds, the Golf de Carantec benefits from a unique seaside setting. The site offers a 9-hole FFG-approved course open to players of all levels as well as training areas.
Practice 20 stations including 6 covered
Putting green
Pitching greens
Training bunker
This 9-hole course is a real pleasure for the eyes and for the game. It overlooks the Bay of Morlaix and offers a sumptuous panorama of the sea and the Clouët beach below. Throughout the course, you will be able to fully express your golf and swing protected from the prevailing winds by wooded hillsides.
The whole team welcomes you there throughout the year, whatever your level. Each year, many friendly competitions are organized on the site of the Golf de Carantec. The vast majority of them are open to everyone.
Located 300 meters from the ocean, the Quiberon golf course offers a compact 9-hole (Double tee-off), a 27-station practice, a 9-hole putting green and a practice bunker. This golf course is part of an ecological approach respecting nature and its environment. At the Club-House, you can come and refresh yourself and share moments of conviviality.
The Golf de Pen Ar Bed is located halfway between Brest and the seaside. It is a course combining the calm and the sweetness of the Breton bocage, in Brittany, near Brest and Saint Renan. Relatively flat and decorated with water obstacles, it offers a relaxing golf challenge and is suitable for players of all levels.
The Pen Ar Bed golf course has 2 9-hole courses:
Pen Ar Bed traditional 9-hole course (Par 35, 2443 m)
Compact 9 holes (Par 30, 1500m)
The traditional 9-hole course will delight all lovers of the little white ball. The compact 9-hole course is the ideal solution for having fun, getting started and practicing golf. You will have a good time with family or friends on these courses which will surely make you want to continue your golfing adventure in a friendly atmosphere.
Footgolf and training
Footgolf: the compact 9-hole Pen Ar Bed course is approved by the AFFG. The Pen Ar Bed golf course has a covered driving range with 12 training stations and a 500 m² training area to work on your game.
Near Pontivy, the Rimaison en Bieuzy les Eaux golf course, along the Blavet valley, was built on the ruins of the Château de Rimaison. It is a 9-hole golf course with a fairly difficult course considering the local topography, all in valleys and hills.
The main characteristic of the Rimaison golf course lies in having to face narrow tees. Indeed your stake will be decisive to approach this 9 holes. It is imperative to place the ball on the tee-shot to leave a second playable green attack stroke. In addition, significant slopes will make you work on slopes. Finally, sometimes complicated greens will require a good read to hope for some birdies. All this makes the Golf de Rimaison a real golf course that has nothing to envy to the more classic courses, the longer of the 18 holes in Morbihan.
Very beautiful course, wooded and hilly, very pleasant especially in spring. This very user-friendly golf course will be perfect for beginners, but the course is not so easy. And already experienced players find good sensations there and return with great pleasure to improve their performance.
The Ploemeur Océan golf course, also written Plœmeur, is located in Morbihan in Brittany. For more than thirty years, it offers an atypical course which deploys its greens and fairways in a landscape of any beauty. Its 18 holes from which the Atlantic Ocean is visible are breathtaking. It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful golf courses in Brittany.
Four of its captivating holes directly from the oceanfront will transport you to the start of your course.
Links type, this terrain requires careful play on the fairways winding in the middle of a heathland of gorse and thorns. A good position on the fairways will greatly facilitate the attack of the vast greens. Large and deep bunkers will recover your stray shots. The wind is the element that must imperatively be taken into account on this fairly short course. Golfers will have to handle the ball well and master their trajectories to tame this Links with its wild and natural charm.
The clubhouse will be the place of rest sheltered from torments in the event of a strong wind. The excellent table at the golf lounges will allow you to discover some Australian dishes and wines.
A route not to be missed if you are passing through Lorient!
The golf de l'Iroise, a prestigious golf course combining sport and tradition, is one of the most popular Breton golf courses, thanks to its magnificent 18 holes traced in the middle of the wild moors. Designed by the English architect Michael Fenn in 1976, the layout is both traditional and sporty.
The Brest Iroise golf course is nestled in a 220 hectare wooded park. The colors of deep Brittany follow one another. Sometimes the different greens of the moor dotted with touches of gray brought by the granite rocks, sometimes the radiance of a clearing which struggles with the shadows of the tall trees. It is a reference for confirmed players. Traditional "parkland" golf course with a championship course in an exceptional natural site, in Brittany, in the department of Finistère (29), near Brest and Landerneau.
The Brest Iroise golf course has 2 courses and a practice:
The 18-hole championship course (old course) of 6008 m, Par 72
The 6-hole compact
Practice of 22 stations, including 10 covered
Baden golf course is located in the Morbihan department, in the Brittany region. Neither links, nor country golf, nor forest course, the 18-hole course of the Baden golf course is a bit of all three at the same time. Indeed, its first part runs along the river and lets admire the magnificent view of the nearby sea. The second returns to the interior of the land in an open area. The third leads through the pines, before ending at the foot of the clubhouse.
The 18-hole course
The Baden golf course is constantly being renewed with every hole and every game. It offers different atmospheres but a unity of pleasure that we never tire of, both playing it and admiring it. Its greens and fairways extend over 5 meters. With fairly wide greens, it requires the golfer to use a good strategy between caution and attack.
Within the Regional Natural Park of the Gulf of Morbihan, hole n ° 1 offers a superb view of the Gulf of Morbihan and the Auray river.
Training zones
Baden Golf has a large training area and a compact 6-hole course. They will be perfect for beginner players wishing to improve throughout the year.
Once the game is over, the good table in the clubhouse is the ideal place to savor the charm of the place even more. Just 15 minutes from Vannes and 1h15 from Nantes Atlantique airport, it's a golf course to discover!
In the middle of granite blocks dotting a natural course, drawn in a setting at the end of the world with some views of the islands of Molène and Ouessant, this site is named the golf course of Brest-les Abers, in Brittany, near Brest and Plouarzel. The golf course is 3 km from the beaches. As for sport, you will experience a unique moment on this hilly 18-hole golf course at the western tip of Finistère (29) with superb views over the Breton countryside.
The Brest les Abers golf course deploys its fairways over a length of 5187 meters. Fair course with wide fairways it will not penalize you on your faceoffs. Its main difficulty will be to reach some small greens sometimes raised. Accurate iron play and the ability to judge distances should allow you to score well on this course. To complete the large course, a Pitch and putt of 3 holes and a covered driving range of 6 posts are at your disposal.
In Fréhel, in Brittany, the Golf des Sables d'Or deploys its greens and fairways between two remarkable sites: Cap Fréhel and Cap d'Erquy.
History
Created in 1925, the Golf des Sables d'Or is the oldest golf course in the Côtes d'Armor. Designed as a tourist asset for the seaside resort of Sables-d'Or-les-Pins, golf has evolved since the Belle Époque, while continuing to seduce.
To the 9 original holes designed in 1925, at the time when the northeast coast of Cap Fréhel was beginning to attract a clientele of wealthy holidaymakers, 9 others were added in 1991, allowing the small course to turn into a an 18-hole course perfectly suited to the demands of modern golfers.
The 18-hole course
Inspired by links although located some distance from the seaside, the land stretches over a relatively flat, well-planted elevation. The holes do not present insurmountable difficulties or hidden traps, but allow golfers of all levels to find their account.
In addition, the Sables d'Or golf course has the advantage of being playable all year round thanks to its sandy soil. Straightforward and technical course, your playing strategy holds an important place. Indeed, making good face-offs will be an indisputable asset. In particular on hole n ° 8, the signature hole of the course. A par 3 that does not leave indifferent with a Bunker Trap which admirably defends this elevated and double plateau green in the tradition of the great Scottish Links. Finally, the recent clubhouse adds to the pleasant character of the reception.
The Golf des Ajoncs d'Or or Golf de la Baie de Saint-Brieuc is an 18-hole golf course located on the west coast of the bay of Saint-Brieuc. Close to some of the most charming seaside resorts in northern Brittany, the Ajoncs d'Or are both a real golfing pleasure and a pleasant walk.
A few kilometers from the sea, the course winds through the middle of a bocage landscape. It is protected from the sea wind by numerous and venerable trees. Flat, the 1976 course was renovated in 2001 to better meet the wishes of the modern golfer.
With its rather short Par 5 but its fairly long Par 4, it offers a wide variety of shots, especially when the water comes into play as on the splendid holes 8 and 11. Its fast greens, well defended by good bunkers, round off the finish in style. this pleasant course for players of all levels.
The Boisgelin golf course is open all year round. Varied 12-hole course, technical on hilly terrain with bodies of water surrounded by the large forest of the domain and its hundred-year-old trees.
The holes meander between the two ponds, an old cider orchard, an old manor house (Historic Monument) from the XNUMXth century with its French gardens, its moats and the Château-Hotel-Restaurant (with swimming pool).
Memorable views at each hole in this historic estate, owned to this day by the same "les Boisgelin" family, since 1166.
The course :
Although the trees are not really in play, the 9 holes of the course are quite technical due to the few water features in play. In addition, some greens quite well defended by judiciously placed bunkers will require a game from you. precise iron. However, the fairly wide fairways will allow you to lose your way slightly on the drive without being too penalized.
The signature hole:
The signature hole of Golf Gilles de Boisgelin is undoubtedly the n2 hole. A par 3 of 151 meters. You have to go in the direction of the castle with the pond on the right and the magnificent 3th century manor on your left. This par XNUMX bordered by a large century-old alley of oaks is simply unforgettable!
The Golf de la Crinière is a little jewel of Brittany designed by one of the best French golf architects, Olivier Brizon. It is part of an authentic and wooded 18th century setting, around the formal gardens of the Manoir de la Ville Gourio (guest rooms). This decor of character is certainly one of its attractions.
The course
The rolling fairways of this pretty 9-hole course are bordered by tall, centuries-old trees which give it a playing configuration that is as pleasant as it is technical. Indeed, its excellent greens offer interesting slopes and require a good reading. Also, the skilfully laid out bodies of water and the well-designed and defended bunkers will require you to know how to play all the golf shots. Fun, challenge and relaxation guaranteed on a 9-hole course accessible to golfers of all levels ... At La Maninière, you will have the opportunity to cross swords with emotion!
Training areas
Practice: 10 indoor and 4 outdoor posts,
Pitching Green: 3 play areas to reach the green.
A stone's throw from the city of Quimper, in southern Brittany, the Kerbernez golf course welcomes you on an area of over 100 wooded and flowered hectares on the edge of the Odet.
The 9-hole course
The 9-hole, 2621-meter, par 35 course offers many possibilities for golfers of all levels. Combining simplicity and technicality, this golf course will require calm and concentration from the first to the last hole. The Kerbernez golf course is approved by the FFGolf and can accommodate ranking competitions counting for the index without level limit. These tournaments are generally held on Sundays from April to September. In addition, throughout the year, friendly competitions are also organized.
The practice
The Kerbernez golf course has the largest practice in Finistère! You will find a total of 18 punching stations, including 4 covered, and an area on grass. You can work on your swing and your driving over a distance of 250 meters.
Compact course
A compact urban course (new federal concept) completes the practice as an all-level training space. In a bocage site, this small drained and watered course offers 9 holes of 45 to 120 meters (with bunkers) to which must be added 1 training hole and a putting green.
A veritable landscaped garden, the 9-hole golf course at Cap Malo offers a pretty golf course that spreads its greens and fairways over 21 hectares. It welcomes players of all levels, in an exceptional setting, 10 minutes from Rennes.
More than 1200 trees decorate the 21 hectares of the site and 2 bodies of water linked with a waterfall bring a note of freshness to this hilly area.
The course
The Cap Malo golf course extends over 2028m by 31. The architect Yves Bureau, who has completed numerous courses in France and abroad, has designed a course suitable for players of all levels, which highlights the beauty of the area. site.
The course is developed in a variety of landscape atmospheres:
Open landscape on the first 5 holes with the presence of a 2-level lake,
Landscape more closed on the last 4 holes, marked by the maintenance of the hedgerows.
This "garden golf course", a vast green lung in the heart of the activity zone, is reinforced by a floral theme. This 9 hole course is designed to offer a difficult course for the elite, competitive for the average player and interesting for the beginner player.
Training areas
To complete its offer, the Cap Malo golf course has many training areas
Practice 20 covered posts + 5 grass posts. On 4 hectares, the training area includes 1 pitching green and 1 putting green, to offer the best training elements with a wide variety of scenarios.
The Golf du Bois Guy is located north of Fougères between Rennes and Laval, the wooded and technical 9-hole course (soon 18 holes in 2020) has been open since October 2018. It also has a large training area with 40 stations practice area, a putting green and a pitching green. It is built around the 4-star Renaissance-style chateau-hotel.
An ecological golf course
1st sustainable golf course in France with the creation of a Biotop for the entire domain: Management of contributions and treatments according to the Ecocert charter, 100% vegetable amendment, biostimulants, no synthetic products. Water treatment by phyto-purification, recovery of rainwater, reduction of watering to what is strictly necessary. Photovoltaic energy production, 600m² of solar panels installed in the car park as well as on the practice area. Management of the biodiversity of out-of-play areas, Permaculture, beehives, organic market gardening, orchards, Eco pastures, wetlands.
The Golf de Tréméreuc is located in the Côtes-d'Armor department, in Brittany. It offers a charming and quality 9-hole course in the Breton countryside. It deploys its greens and fairways over 26 hectares and has 2 par 5s over 500 meters, 4 par 4 and 3 par 3.
From the creation of the first course, various species were planted, with red or green foliage, deciduous or not, conifers or deciduous trees, thus giving a very particular dimension to the golf of Tréméreuc.
Redesigned by a professional in 2001, the 2875 m of fairways today combine aesthetics and technicality, revealing over the holes
Greens in double trays
Departures in wooded areas
Water parts
Strategically placed bunkers
The players will appreciate the difficulty of each hole which requires the implementation of a real playing strategy. The motto of the Golf de Tréméreuc: simplicity, conviviality, relaxation… It is up to each one to maintain this state of mind
A few kilometers from the forest of Brocéliande, imprinted by the legendary loves of the fairy Viviane and the magician Merlin the enchanting, is the 9-hole golf course of Lac au Duc. The Golf du Lac au Duc is located equidistant from Vannes (approx. 60km), Rennes and Lorient (approx. 50km). It is easily accessible from the roads leading to the Atlantic coast of southern Brittany.
The Lac au Duc golf course takes its name from the largest natural lake in Brittany, whose waters sparkle in the sun a few meters from the greens, giving the site bucolic charm and serene atmosphere ...
The course
9 holes - par 36 - 2935 meters
The 9-hole course stretches along the shores of Lac au Duc, alternating wide fairways, narrow corridors and varied greens on a flat and open ground. The originality of the Lac au Duc golf course is to provide some nice technical surprises, such as hole n ° 6 (fairly tight dog leg), hole n ° 9 (long par 5 much narrower) or even hole n ° 4 offering drivers a long straight line of 544 meters ...
Thus the Lac au Duc golf course appeals to every golfer, beginner or experienced, on a course as surprising as it is pleasant.
The Sainr Cast golf course is located in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, a pretty French town on the Emerald Coast in the Côtes-d'Armor department, in Brittany.
The 18-hole Links Course
The golf course of Saint-Cast has been emerging between dunes and cliffs since 1926. The sea will accompany you throughout the course.
In Saint-Cast, golf has been a tradition ever since a group of friends from St Andrews chose to build 18 holes on these auspicious lands.
Its sandy soil and its traditional design make it a golf course accessible to all and in all weathers. You will enjoy an exceptional panorama on Pen Guen beach, Pointe de la Garde and the Ebihens archipelago.
The signature hole:
With its new green and its unobstructed view of the Atlantic Ocean, hole number 9 is magnificent and will seduce you!
And Couesnon in its madness put the Mount in Normandy ”. This saying is proclaimed when the bridge over the river separating Brittany and the Normandy makes the Bretons laugh yellow. Without this whim of nature or the administrative division decreed by technocrats, Mont Saint-Michel. would be attached to Brittany which would have, suddenly, added this architectural masterpiece to its catalog of wonders. In the south, Brittany was also administratively cut off by Nantes, yet the seat of the Dukes of Brittany from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century. Nantes became by default the capital of the region of Pays de la Loire.
For a handful of kilometers therefore, the Couesnon put the Mont in Normandy. The eyes of the proud Bretons then turned towards the port of Saint Malo, the embodiment of its long maritime history. From this fortified port located at the mouth of the Rance, left the ocean runners, free, without ties except for honor and money. Proud privateers like Surcouf or great explorers like Jacques Cartier. Intrepid fishermen who set sail for long months to bring Newfoundland cod back to their holds. Today it is further south, in the port of the Trinité-sur-MerNear Carnac, that we find this pool of intrepid sailors, more peaceful but always in search of new exploits.
On the west bank of the Rance, the Dinard golf course gives himself an air of England. In this oldest seaside resort in northern Brittany, the windows are hung and the golf course is a links. Like in the UK. At the end of the 1890th century, holidaymakers with an Oxford accent founded one of the first tennis clubs in France there before building a golf course. Otherwise, they were doomed to mortal boredom, as this passage from Volume IV of the 1891-XNUMX edition of the Golfing Annual recalls: " Two years ago, the tourist could say that the only occupations for the English staying in Dinard were tennis and dancing… and one thing more impossible than the impossible was to find a suitable ground for golf… »The choice of the site is delicate and the course has its holes of Dinard in Saint-Lunaire before finally beaching on the dunes of Saint Briac. More than seven kilometers from Dinard, just after the tip of the Guard Guérin. However, the golf course still bears the name of Dinard, much to the chagrin of Brice Lalonde, former mayor of the town and former minister of the Fifth Republic.
The 18 holes moved, remodeled, renamed from Tom Dunn's first layout hug the jagged cliffs of the eastern tip of the Emerald Coast. At its peaks, two wooden benches, donated by the club president and his son, impose a beneficial stop between two swings. Facing the panorama on Lancieux bay and its chains of islands. The prospect is so beautiful that the golf course had to defend itself against unscrupulous property developers. Also, the grounds as well as the clubhouse, a small marvel of the 20s, have been protected. Golf was saved but what a headache for its leaders who must now refer to the administration, even for the simple removal of a bunker.
Inside the one-story clubhouse, the railing of the staircase leading down to the changing rooms, an interlacing of wrought-iron golf clubs, and the trophy cases could also be registered in the national golf heritage. Because Dinard is to Brittany what Chantaco or La Nivelle are to the Basque Country. Incubators of little geniuses of the little white ball. To show their gratitude to the club which cradled their youth, the baby champions who have grown up have deposited their precious trophies there. In the windows shines the most prestigious, the Espirito Trophy, awarded to the winning team of the World Amateur Team Championship. A donation from Claudine Cros-Chatrier, member of the 1964 French team with Catherine Lacoste, president of Chantaco… Other children of Dinard have their names engraved in the dark wood of the honor roll: Sven Boinet, winner of the Spain international in 1975 or Philippe Ploujoux, hero of the British amateur in 1981 which earned him the honor of playing, the two following years, the first two rounds of the Masters, in Augusta (United States), with the grandissime Arnold Palmer.
On the cliffs of the town of Pleneuf-le-Val-Andre about Côtes d'Armor, the course designed by the French architect Alain Prat is not yet old enough to tap into his memories and sink into nostalgia.
Too young for that. The tradition will be for later. Because the seaside resort only lives in the summer months and, for a long time, the practice of golf was limited to games of miniature golf on grass in the garden of the municipal casino. This eighteen holes for children with its windmills, its bridges and its castles ... aroused the vocations of golfer, including that of the author of this book, but was unfortunately covered with a coat of asphalt to turn into a parking lot . Pity!
When the young Val André golf course this time, a real eighteen hole - replaced the algécos by a hard clubhouse, the clients took care to orient the bay windows of the dining room towards the Verdelet, an islet which stands like a pyramid in open sea, behind the port of Piégu. Bird reserve, the Verdelet can only be visited during high tides when the sea recedes sufficiently and leaves a path uncovered. For just a few hours.
In front of the restaurant, the backtee of 10, a par 4 which begins the short sequence of the sea. At the drive, you have to aim for Nantua beach, straight ahead to reach the blind fairway from which a green below attacks. This hole looks like the 11 of Spirona, in Corsica.
The following is the signature of Pleneuf Val-Andre. The one who goes around Europe on glossy magazines before setting off on a journey around the world in the imagination of golfers. To fully enjoy the layout of this par 5, do not hesitate to climb up to the tiny rocky platform that serves as a tee for very good players. Yellow balls, white balls, black balls, the colors here don't matter anymore. Even if it means losing a ball, or even two! Regardless, the spectacle is more important than a golf ball. On the left, fifty meters below, the beach of Vallées extended by the immense beach of Nantua.
To the right of this long strip of immaculate sand, the fairway which leads to a tormented green. A small house in ruins, windows open to the four winds, and two lodgepole pines to the left of the entrance to the fairway mark the landmarks to correct its alignment. Like buoys or beacons for a sailor. Reaching the grass requires a range of the ball that is close to one hundred and eighty meters. Afraid to abstain! And those who could not brave the vertigo of this spectacular start will stop for a few minutes on the green of this par 5 to admire this hole in reverse; from the green to the tee. Unforgettable at sunset!
It is south in the Morbihan that stand menhirs and dolmens, cairns and tumuli, vestiges of the fourth millennium BC Carved in granite, these giant stones erected, lying, piled up form alignments or circles which still cause much ink to flow. All the hypotheses have been put forward, no scientific truth has imposed itself. Each inhabitant of this region has his own reasoning. Like this manager of a golf course in Morbihan who explains that all the menhirs form gigantic circles, the center of which is the large menhir and the Table des Marchands of Locmariaquer.
These stones erected in the moor, dear to Obelix, are today threatened and are the object of attentive care. Thus, in Carnac, the Mecca of these megaliths, the alignments are surrounded by fences in order to let nature regain its vigor and allow the re-rooting of these thousand-year-old stones weighing hundreds of kilos. Like the standing stones of Carnac, the golf courses of Morbihan form a circle passing through Ploemeur Ocean in Lorient and Sauzon on Beautiful island. With at their center, the Saint-Laurent golf course, a few kilometers from Carnac.
But the latter does not contain any megalithic treasure. Neither menhir nor dolmen. In the United States, promoters would have played with this symbolism. Not in France. Maybe because Saint-Laurent looks like a golf course in the Landes. With pines, more pines and more pines. The fairways are fairly flat on the outward and hilly on the return, the greens are narrow and the bunkers never penalize a shot that is too short. A pure example of the English course (its architect is Michael Fenn).
To find the Brittany of long-haul sailors, a trip to Belle Ile is a must. At its western tip, the 9, 10 or 13 holes of beautiful Sauzon Island golf course -it is according to the years- built on the cliff invite to meditate on the unleashing of the elements. Moreover, Sauzon has already lost a few holes during famous storms. And the salt-laden spray is responsible for reducing men's efforts forever. In the meantime, whether the golf course is lying at the foot of the cliffs or whether it returns to fallow, it is necessary to dare to challenge the green of hole n ° 2 with its green in the sea, defended like a fortified castle. To be taken by air only.
Impossible to close this Breton journey sounds like evoking the "border" golf courses of the Bretesche and The Baule. Because Missillac, on the road to Valves, is only a few kilometers from Morbihan. A few pars 5 of Brittany to which the hearts of the inhabitants of this small village located on the Nantes-Vannes expressway clings to. A road once defended by the crenellated towers of the Bretesche castle.
Today, this castle surrounded by a moat no longer inspires any fear. Transformed into apartments, it discreetly watches over the two hundred hectares of the estate and the 18-hole course which stretches out its fairways under its loopholes. One of his tenants, Gérard Métairie, looks shockingly at his cherished journey in the morning. Twenty years ago, this real estate developer, tapped by his omissions, decided to build a golf course. To design the course, we whisper the name of Henry Cotton, the great English champion of the 30s and 40s and triple winner of the British Open. The latter goes to Missillac, makes some sketches and sends his estimate. "Too expensive", replies the promoter who sees an English skinner, Bill Baker, land. He is a hunter like Gérard Métairie.
This common passion creates links. Between two gunshots, the two men refine the project and Bill Baker removes the case. With its resolutely "British" cottages and its hotel fitted out in the outbuildings and stables, the Bretesche golf course turns to golf-trotters in love with old stones. Because even if the castle whose access is protected by a drawbridge was renovated in the XNUMXth century by Eugène Violletle-Duc, it gives the impression of coming straight out of a swashbuckling film where clubs would be replaced by long blades and visor caps by large feathered hats.
Au La Baule golf course, it was a leap into the future that were invited to the members of the club who felt cramped on the old route initiated by François André, a locomotive of the Roaring Twenties. Indeed, this chic seaside resort north-west of Nantes, whose eight-kilometer beach is unique in Europe, wanted a golf course that lived up to its reputation. With the Lucien Barrière group at the helm, owner of the New Golf de Deauville, this new golf course offers tourism and prestige.
Two years after its inauguration, La Baule is hosting the 1978 French Open. A great promotional and communication campaign to publicize this true French-style "resort" made up of its twenty-seven holes designed by Dave Thomas and Peter Alliss then remodeled by Michel Gayon, and a hotel whose windows open onto the vast five-hectare body of water, a nod to Brière, this marshy region that stretches from Saint-Nazaire to Missillac.
La Baule is only about thirty kilometers from Morbihan, but the traditions of historic Brittany do not encompass the borders drawn with a scalpel in Parisian cabinets.