The Golf de Pontarlier is located in an exceptional setting at an altitude of 837 meters in a green setting between the Larmont mountain (1 m) and the Arlier plain.
The 18-hole Pontarlier course is a mid-mountain golf course that will not leave you indifferent. In the heart of a pine forest in the Doubs, at the foot of the Jura, this course in the heart of nature will seduce you. Slightly hilly, despite its altitude, it remains quite playable on foot and is more like a plain than a mountain course.
To complete its offer, the Golf de Pontarlier Les Etraches offers many training areas. A large practice with 15 posts including 5 covered, a putting green and an approach green.
With family, friends or colleagues, beginners as well as competitors, from 7 to 97 years old, the Golf de Pontarlier welcomes you every day in a warm and sporty atmosphere. The exceptional site with a remarkable panorama located in a bucolic universe, is available to learn, play, train or simply have a drink and eat.
The Golf de Mâcon La Salle is located in an exceptional setting in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Enjoy the beauty of the region and the splendor of its vineyards, enjoying the charm of the Golf in the heart of a harmonious landscape in a warm and relaxing setting.
The course
The course with the original concept of sculpture of the female body, will delight each of its visitors. Its 18 holes Par 71 over 6000 meters will charm you with its graceful shapes. Indeed, the Mâcon-La Salle Golf has established its reputation thanks to the design of Robert Berthet, its architect who was inspired by the female body to create this course.
The foot of the green of hole 10 or the erotic bunker of 11 will distract you. The fairways stretch their long silhouettes which creep into the smallest folds of the ground, offering two 9-hole loops where the emotion grows. Calm and serenity are the key words of this green space which invites you to practice your passion for golf.
The signature hole
Hole number 10 Hcp 1: Major difficulty of the course. Very long Par 4 bordered by an out of bounds on the right and a water hazard on the left. Its famous foot-shaped green is shallow and bordered at the rear of another water hazard.
Training areas
Pracice: 12 covered workstations 10 outdoor workstations
A practice area on grass
Putting green
chipping green
Training bunker
Rougemont le Château golf course dominates the Meuse valley, between Namur and Dinant. The only golf course in the region, it is located at the foot of the Ballon d'Alsace, offering views of the Vosges, the Jura and the Swiss Alps. The course offers exceptional panoramas of hills and forests.
The 18-hole course
Sporty for its slopes and technical for the precision of the shots required, the hilly 18-hole course of the Rougemont golf course will delight golfers of all levels.
An original and varied route
The layout is varied and all the holes display a pictorial name, linked to the site, to a flower, a tree. The most original, in the shape of a horseshoe, the 13 nicknamed the Conciergerie draws a U. Known in the region, this par 4 of 375 meters may surprise. Indeed, one would be tempted to pass above the trees directly towards the flag but a local rule prohibits this option considered as “out of bounds” for safety reasons.
A castle as a clubhouse
The castle serving as a clubhouse is magnificent while its terrace overlooks the entire valley. A little anecdote in this original club, the annual subscription to the Rougemont golf course is calculated according to your age ... Thus increasing over the years, it is however capped at 1150 € so as not to ruin the seniors!
The Chateau de Misery golf course is an unapproved 9-hole compact Pitch and Putt golf course. It is located in the town of Misery in Yonne in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The distances of the holes are really very short. Indeed they evolve between 40 and 85 meters. A course that can be done with just one golf club. With family, alone or with friends, it will offer you a fun challenge.
The 20 m² club house is housed in a reception chalet. Misery golf course remains an ecological golf course where no pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used, but only rainwater. In the departments of Nièvre and Yonne, it is the only golf course to hold the responsible sport label. This label has been awarded to him for three consecutive years.
The Château d'Avoise golf course is an 18-hole course located in the heart of Burgundy. Its majestic layout is the work of famous architect Martin HAWTREE. On an area of more than one hundred hectares, the 6179 meters of fairways unfold between groves and birch trees, majestic beeches, hundred-year-old oaks and lakes.
The signature hole
Hole n ° 3: par 4 hcp 1. Over 400 meters from the Back Tees. After 2 "getting started" holes, the game starts to get complicated with this long par 4 in left dogleg. A fairway bunker on the left is at dusk. Despite a good throw-in, the second shot remains long with a fairly deep green bunker on the right which collects many balls. We can favor an iron shot in front of the green on the left and try the par with a good chip-putt. A real golfing challenge!
Training areas
Extensive practice
Putting green
Training bunker
Pitching Green
Chipping Green
Easy to access, less than 5 minutes from the motorway exit and 2km from Beaune Centre, Le Golf de Beaune-Levernois is located in the heart of the Burgundy vineyards. It includes an 18-hole golf course and a compact 9-hole Pitch and Putt course. Its main course, Beaune is a par 72 of 6063 meters open since 1989 in Levernois. At the gates of Beaune, a recognized international tourist destination and the Climats of Burgundy listed as World Heritage by UNESCO.
The 18-hole course
The Beaune Levernois golf course is a long and technical golf course. Its 9 lakes and its many bunkers are linked together in harmony throughout the course. Between valleys, mounds, hundred-year-old trees and bodies of water, the whole is harmonious and pleasant to play. The course despite its length remains accessible to all levels with its advanced departures. If you are not in a swing ... Bring a few balls and a landing net anyway!
The training areas
Practice
Putting green
Pitching greens
Compact 9-hole course
The Sénonais golf course is located on the borders of Yonne, Loiret and Seine-et-Marne. Greens and Fairways are spread over 38 hectares of greenery in tranquil wooded and rolling countryside. On the clearing of the old Ursules farm, you will discover a pretty 9-hole course.
The Senonais golf course is a course approved by the French Golf Federation since 1991. It has the particularity of offering double starts. It can thus be played in 18 holes Par 71. This enriches this course and offers various playing situations. Designed with respect for the nature which surrounds it for the greatest pleasure of the players. It will suit golfers of all levels.
Finally, its clubhouse and friendly space will ensure relaxation and golfing dining.
The Nivernais Public Golf Course is located on the edge of the Nevers Magny-Cours technopole. It is part of the leisure area desired and created in 1969 by Jean Bernigaud, near the Magny-Cours racing circuit.
Became the property of the Departmental Council of Nièvre in 1986, it offers all Nivernais, but also all car, motorcycle or karting enthusiasts, on a green park of 50ha, an 18-hole Par 71 golf course of 5509 meters, a 5-hole compact and a driving range.
Technical course, with small well-defended greens, but which remains accessible to all players. The pleasantly wooded and gently rolling fairways offer a beautiful view of the Nivernaise countryside and the Formula 1 circuit.
Seasoned players or recreational golf enthusiasts, this golf course will meet your expectations.
The Golf du Château de Chailly is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful courses in Bourgogne Franche Comté. Built in a wooded and hilly landscape, offers you, in a unique and authentic setting, an atmosphere of calm and serenity.
The course
The golf course, in a 75 hectare park, offers an 18-hole course. Designed by Géry Watine and Thierry Sprecher, delicately planted with a multitude of trees and perfectly maintained, it offers a major challenge to take up whatever the level of the one who practices it. Although the face-offs are relatively straightforward, Green's attacks are technical and strategic. The greens are raised and often defended by deep bunkers. A stream crosses the Golf very discreetly. The meticulous work of the Greenkeeper gardeners results in a remarkable quality of the greens and a ride close to the standards of the European Circuit. The equipped tees allow shorter green attacks, which makes the course accessible to all types of players.
Training zones
The Hôtel Golf Château de Chailly has a training area where you can work on all aspects of the game of golf.
Open all year round
12 covered places on carpet
6 uncovered places on carpet
Srixon practice golf balls available at the driving range
Practice on grass
Large training ground for short distances, pitching, bunkers and chipping
Large putting training ground with 9 holes
Three locations for wedging of three different lengths
The Golf du Château de Bournel is located in Burgundy in the heart of Franche-Comté, on the border between Switzerland and Alsace. It offers an exceptional golf course in an unusual setting with breathtaking views of the XNUMXth century castle.
The Golf de Bournel is now part of the Exclusiv Golfs NGF, "golf courses on the path to excellence". It is the top of the range of the UGOLF network. For golf players looking for high standards, golfing culture and sensitivity. The Exclusiv Golfs combine an irreproachable golf quality and a prestigious setting. .
The 18-hole course
The design of the golf course at Château de Bournel is the work of French architect Robert Berthet. He was able to take advantage of century-old trees, cascading bodies of water and natural height differences, in order to design a course that will not leave anyone indifferent. Indeed, occasional amateurs and assiduous professionals alike are unanimously charmed by the beauty of this 18-hole course.
This Par 72 is harmonious and will seduce the golfer with:
Long Pars 5 accessible in 2 strokes for long hitters
Pars 3 well defended by bunkers
Par 4 bordered by water which spice up the course.
Facilities and infrastructure
The Château de Bournel Club-House and Golf Bar are located in the 25th century Old Château, adjacent to the Golf Hotel-Restaurant. A practice of 8 mats - including 3 covered - a putting green as well as a compact XNUMX-hole course complete the golf offer. Come and discover the family and warm universe of Bourne, you will be won over!
In the heart of Burgundy, the Salives golf course is a real little corner of Paradise. In a green setting near the Châtillonnais forests, this technical 9-hole course will seduce you. It extends over a land of over thirty hectares at the exit of Dijon, on the threshold of Burgundy and the Paris Basin.
Structure on a human scale and family golf course, it will suit golfers of all levels.
The rustic and natural 9-hole course is 2800 meters long. Its undulating greens and hilly fairways, with many elevation changes, will require you to handle the little white ball well. Indeed, between groves, beeches and majestic oaks, you are faced with a very interesting technical and strategic challenge. In addition, different departures on the way out and on the way back make it a real 18 hole course. Between two swings, you can admire nature in its raw state where deer, hares and other green woodpeckers like to keep occasional visitors and regulars company.
The Golf de Saint Claude is located in the heart of the Haut-Jura natural park. It is a technical mountain route at the gates of the city which dominates the city and the valleys.
On the heights of the city, between Pain de Sucre and Mont Chabot, the Saint-Claude golf course will seduce you. Designed in 1992 by Michel Vuillermoz, its director and greenkeeper, it is a remarkably maintained course. Fairly short, however, it displays some dazzling overhangs. Enough to disconcert some golfers who will nevertheless keep in mind the breathtaking landscapes on the surrounding massifs.
Another originality lies in three holes, the 2, 3 and 6 which are played twice in different configuration to reach 18 holes. The course with its 18-hole configuration: Par 67, Slope 120 over 4860 meters is perfectly integrated in a hilly and wooded site with a panoramic view where each hole has its particularity.
In addition, for training, the Saint Claude golf course has a covered grass practice area, a putting green, approach green and 3 training holes.
Close to the center of Dijon, the Quétigny golf course welcomes you in a calm and green environment, ideal for recharging your batteries. The 18-hole course of Quétigny is a slightly hilly golf course, where the Mirande river meanders. Surprisingly technical with its wooded fairways and the narrowness of its greens, it requires players to have a sharp little game and a precise set of irons.
The Bluegreen golf course in Quétigny has the particularity of offering a large, quality training center that will delight both beginners and experienced golfers in search of improvement.
Practice (70 positions)
Vast Putting green
chipping green
3-hole school course
Quétigny Grand Dijon is one of the benchmark 18-hole golf courses in the Burgundy region. It appeals for its friendly, lively and warm character. Golfers will have a lot of fun on its very well maintained greens and fairways.
The Luxeuil-Bellevue Golf is a magnificent 18-hole course. It is the only golf course in Haute Saône in Franche-Comté. It is located in the center of the department, in a triangle formed by the towns of Vesoul, Lure and Luxeuil-les Bains. Carried out by the General Council, owner of the land, this hilly course stretches out at the foot of the picturesque village of Genevrey.
The course is pleasantly wooded and the fairways well maintained. The main difficulty of this golf lies in the attack of the greens. Indeed these are well defended by bunkers and judiciously placed water obstacles. In addition, most of them are raised and have double shelves. You will have understood that a precise iron game and a very sharp little game will be essential to bring back a nice scorecard to the Clubhouse.
Apart from the technical side, you will be seduced by the aesthetics of this elegant and refined course. At the end of your course you will enjoy the Luxeuil-Bellevue golf restaurant and its terrace in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
The Golf de Besançon is located in the pretty town of La Chevillotte in the Doubs department, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in a magnificent 200-hectare park.
The 18-hole course
The 18 holes of the Golf de Besançon perfectly match the existing nature. Harmoniously designed in 1968 by M.FENN, in a remarkable site, wooded by many trees of different species, this "Par 72" of 6016 meters with a slope of 134 remains accessible to all, whatever their level of play.
Everyone can therefore evolve at their own pace and will be won over by the quality of the course, maintenance of which is a priority.
The Signature Hole
Hole n ° 10, Par 4 Hcp 4 is the signature hole of the Besançon golf course. It is not one, but two water hazards that await you. The oak judiciously placed in the face-off will not help you land your ball on the fairway and the three green bunkers will welcome you. In addition, it is raised and has several platforms making the putting very interesting.
The second shot is perilous with a green well defended by three bunkers and a lake on the left. A real golfing challenge!
Training zones
Besançon golf course has many training areas:
Practice of 26 mats including 17 covered
Practice on Grass
2 putting greens
Approach zone
Training bunker
Informed oenologists say that Mâconnais wines have a thigh, that they are elegant and round. Is it while tasting a Pouilly-Fuissé or a Juliénas that the architect Robert Berthet took a bite out of Mâcon-la-Salle course ? Or was it while satiating with women's bodies that he imagined this route with suggestive curves? “In order to follow the idea through, it still needed a“ swollen ”customer and a suitable site. Patrick de la Chesnois endorsed the idea. As for the site, La Salle, in Burgundy, region of gastronomy, heady great wines, land of croups (as geographers say) seemed to me to meet all the criteria ", wrote the architect in a magazine of Golf dedicated to the eternal feminine.
Eighteen holes in homage to the body with its greens and bunkers in the shape of a foot and a hand, its areas between the tee and the fairway like long tapered legs and sheathed in dark green ... A golf course which takes on all its erotic dimension from helicopter. At ground level, the forms seem to escape the gaze of viewers.
In Mâcon-la-Salle, the female body is not simply sublimated by the architect's pencil stroke. Nature is responsible for giving it an adornment: “The rough is clothing. Sometimes veil, sometimes light (golfers say "short grass"), draped along the body, sometimes thick fur of broom and roses or even the hair of fruit trees…. There is also, placed like a necklace around the green of n ° 11, a string of "apple bunkers" and, there, I no longer remember why, the apple ... "
Golf in the mountains
In the Rhône-Alpes region, architects have also used their imaginations to design routes in the mountains. On slopes that skiers and snowboarders descend, in winter, quite schuss, without thinking for a single moment that their acrobatic figures are supported on the fleshy lips of a bunker covered with a thick white coat.
Building a golf course on these steep slopes might seem like an impossible task. The first in France to take up the challenge was the Englishman Henry Cotton who created the Mont d'Arbois golf course in 1923. At an altitude bordering on 1300 meters. Then it was the turn, sixty years later, of Robert Trent Jones to realize the Chamonix golf course in the grandiose setting of Mont Blanc massifs and Aiguilles Rouges.
The bet was daring and still is given the very short period of time to complete the work (from June to October) and make the installations profitable (at best three months in the year). Unlike Méribel, the Chamonix golf course is relatively flat, the course serving as cross-country ski trails in winter. Despite these constraints, mountain golf courses have multiplied. Indeed, there are eleven in the departments ofIsère, Savoy and Haute-Savoie. For resorts that have always lived on the only winter months, golf and new leisure activities like mountain biking, rafting or paragliding have allowed them to diversify income from tourism and live two seasons instead of a. It is not uncommon to find a field steward putting on skis in winter and taking on the combination of ski instructors. Two seasons, two jobs.
Golfers have also discovered a new way to practice their passion. Because we do not play in the mountains as in the plains. The driver is not the most used club in the bag, we prefer irons starts, more precise and easier to control. The ball flies higher and longer, an important parameter in the choice of the club. The slopes also play a significant role in the game strategy and, on the greens, the slopes always spin towards the valley. In the mountains, you have to let go of your certainties. Here, the score is less important than the pleasure. Because the concentration is undermined by the decoration of these immaculate landscapes. In the mountains, we take our time. The fairways of these golf courses that some qualify with a touch of irony as "goat courses" being too steep to run to the ball.
For the sake of communication and fierce competition, the stations embarked on a race for altitude. In 1984, the Arcs open their 18-hole course at an altitude of 1850m. Never mind, two years later, Robert Berthet realizes the Flaine golf course at 2m. The record seems unbeatable. But in 000, opened the golf course of Tignes at 2m, record broken. The following year, Isola 100, in the Alpes-Maritimes, equal Tignes. Since then, no golf course has reached this high.
Near Grenoble, the courses have found refuge at medium altitudes. Like that of Grenoble-Bresson, a beautiful achievement by Robert Trent Jones Jr, whose highest point is measured at only 400m above sea level. But from the top of its fairways, we play in front of the Belledone chain, at Chartreuse massif and Vercors. And, on hole n ° 9, a long downhill par 5, Grenoble appears in a wide gap of trees. The second shot to the green becomes striking.
It is not enough to give an architect a mountain backdrop to give free rein to his creativity. At Saint-Etienne golf course, it is a landfill that Thierry Sprecher has rehabilitated to transform it into a green hole in the heart of the old mining town. “When I was brought to the site, it was full of stones. Dogs howled at the death, it was a real trash ", says the architect. As workers' history is part of the heritage of Saint Etienne, a stele was installed at the back of the green of 2, testimony of firedamp from the Chana well which killed a hundred miners in 1942. The green is placed on the entrance to this well, forever closing the pages of a painful history.
In Lyon, capital of the Gauls, Villette d'Anthon golf course or Lyon golf club was the pioneer in the Rhône department. Built in 1965 in an area of two hundred hectares, along the river, the two courses designed by Hugues Lambert are tributes to game. The championship course, the Sangliers, displays back-tees with an unusual length of 6m, and was the scene of the 727 French Open and the Lyon Open until 1979. The second 1994 holes, bears the name of Brocards, from the name of the one-year-old deer that frolic with their mothers in the undergrowth. These two courses with numerous water obstacles are also home to wild swans, gray herons, little egrets and black kites. A real Noah's Ark, a few kilometers from the famous Lyon “bouchons”.
Less than three hours drive from the Mediterranean and Italy, two hours from Switzerland, and one hour from winter sports resorts, the third largest city in France occupies a privileged location in France. When the weekend comes, the people of Lyon are spoiled for choice. Because near the Swiss border, golf courses abound and the Lyonnais meet there on weekends the Genevans who only have the border to cross. White House, Esery, Bossey et Evian are the four favorite courses of the Rhone and the Swiss.
But the Evian golf course is one step ahead of its competitors. Because this city of water on the shores of Lake Geneva also offers a casino to the appetite of players on a green carpet and two international class hotels, the Royal, a palace open since 1909, and the Hermitage with more Savoyard charm. . At the start of the 1904th century, celebrities flocked to the Royal's large salons. On the promenade along Lake Geneva, Isadora Duncan, Countess Anna de Noailles, Princess de Hohenlohe showed off their dresses while princes, Maharajahs and finance barons chatted while smoking cigars in the smokehouse. Little looking at expenses, the Aga Khan reserved the honorary apartment in the west wing of the palace every summer. For more than forty years, the spiritual leader of the Ismailis would animate the evenings of Evian and the afternoons of the golf course, the first course of which dates back to XNUMX.
This 18-hole course on Lake Geneva was rustic. At that time, we were far from modern standards. It was not until the renovation undertaken, from 1988 to 1990, by the former assistant of Robert Trent Jones, Cabell Robinson, that the Royal Club Evian reached the level of quality demanded by the customers of the two big hotels. Then, at the instigation of Groupe Danone, owner of the luxury facilities of this Savoy spa town, a major women's tournament was created in 1994: The Evian Masters. Thanks or dynonism of Antoine Riboud then of his son, Frank, the tournament has become the unmissable event on the European women's circuit. Since the creation of the tournament, the endowment has gained altitude, the course has been embellished and has recently been adorned with waterfalls and rivers to magnify the elegant swing of these balls from the greens. During the four days of the competition, these young women are treated like queens. As was in their time the dancer, Isadora Duncan, or the poet, Anno de Noailles, companion of Gabriele D'Annunzio. From the lascivious fairways of Mâcon-la-Salle to the gala evenings of the dinner of the champions of Evian, it is the story of the eternal feminine that is being written. A subject all in curves and delicacy.