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The Château d'Augerville golf course offers a magnificent hilly 18-hole course just 1 hour from Paris, near Fontainebleau.
A neat architecture
Created in 1995 in the vast park of the castle, the course was designed by Olivier Dongradi, architect who notably created the Les Gets golf course facing Mont Blanc and many other references in the field. Over time, the Château d'Augerville golf course has established itself as one of the most beautiful golf courses in France.
An 18-hole golf course in the heart of an exceptional domain
In the heart of the green domain of the castle, the Augerville golf course will appeal to experienced players looking for challenges, thanks to holes requiring rigor, requirement and strategic sense. Beginners will appreciate its wide fairways while taking advantage of the restful and relaxing environment. Indeed, between charming ponds, points of view on the castle, long lush expanses and sunsets on the course, the golf course is of any beauty ... The golf course of the Castle of Augerville is to the measure of the site , lush, seductive, endearing and rigorous. Like a green setting in the heart of old stones, it declines over the 18 holes the subtle difficulties of a demanding golf course.
Numerous distinctions
In 2017, the Château d'Augerville golf course is one of the 100 most beautiful European golf resorts (Golf World Mag) and ranks among the top 20 family resorts (Great Golf Mag). Distinctions which only reflect the quality of the offer on site.
A prestigious hotel
The golf course of the Château d'Augerville is also an exceptional welcome, a 5-star hotel, a spa and the possibility of organizing tailor-made golf stays combining sport, relaxation and gastronomy. Whether as a couple, as a family or for a seminar, the Augerville golf course will open its doors to you all year round and will offer you different formulas adapted to your desires.
The Golf Parc Robert Hersant is an exceptional golf course. Between Paris and Evreux, this magnificent 18-hole course, practicable all year round, is located in a sumptuous setting. Indeed, it extends around majestic water features dominated by hills covered with rare tree species with scarlet foliage in Autumn.
Fruit of the passion of its founder Robert Hersant for golf and botany, the Golf Parc has been designed with great attention to detail, both in the design of the course and in the decor that surrounds it. Physical course for which the cart is essential, it offers a high level of play.
Robert hersant
Passionate about traveling and having played on a multitude of golf courses around the world, Robert Hersant drew his inspiration from his golfing escapades. The architecture of the Golf Parc is thus very largely inspired by "American" golf courses where the water features and target greens are legion. This particular design associated with this extraordinary environment gives the course a unique character. An imprint which took a long time to take shape due to the demands of the “artist Hersant” who, not satisfied with one detail, did not hesitate to have a hole reconstructed at the last moment to add a few more meters. .
Ideal for a golf weekend surrounded by nature
Of international quality, designed in the American style, it surrounds the 3-star Gingko Hotel Golf Parc and is embellished with pieces of water and rare trees which form an exceptional setting popular with golfers. Let yourself be seduced by this exceptional course for an unforgettable golf weekend.
A golf course like a veritable arboretum populated with species from all over the world
Remarkably maintained, the Golf Parc has 18 holes located over a hundred hectares around water features dominated by wooded hills with majestic trees, such as Sequoias, Ginkgo Bilobas, Tulip trees, Liquidambars ... .
A technical course
Technical course, a multitude of traps mark out the route. Indeed, between forest, water features and bunkers, a wide range of blows will be required. More than just a round of golf, the Robert Hersant Golf Park offers an unforgettable ride over more than 6000 meters. It even becomes sublime in the fall when the trees take on an ocher, yellow, red and orange color and are reflected in the water.
The Robert Hersant Golf Park in a few figures
12 hectares of water where swans and other species of the aquatic environment evolve
60 carts all equipped with GPS for an accurate reading of the different holes
30 hectares of roughs, 56 bunkers, large fairways and impeccable greens
18 holes located over a hundred hectares
Practice 20 stations including 11 covered
1 pitching green and 1 large putting green
You can also enjoy a 1200 m² club house, in which you will find changing rooms, a bar, a pleasant and modern restaurant, as well as a "Golf Wear" shop.
The Aisses golf course combines beauty and biodiversity in La Ferté-Saint-Aubin in the Center Val-de-Loire region near Orléans and 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris. Opened in 1992 and designed by Olivier Brizon, the Aisses golf course then had three 9-hole courses. Taken over in 2005 by Alfred and Emilie Seydoux, the golf course has been completely redesigned by architect Martin Hawtree. The Aisses golf course has had a makeover, and since 2011 has offered an 18-hole course, "Les Aisses", and a 9-hole course, "La Canne".
You will be won over by this course located in the middle of a vast area of 280 hectares, devoid of any urbanization, home to a heather course almost unique in its kind in France. Enter the heart of Sologne, in the middle of the Natura 2000 zone where human activity and the preservation of biodiversity go hand in hand.
COURSE - LES AISSES GOLF 18 HOLES - PAR 72 OF 6648M - Architect Martin Hawtree
The 18-hole Les Aisses, par 72 course, with a length of 6648 meters (black markers), 5821 meters (yellow markers) and 4914 meters (red markers), is perfectly suited to all levels thanks to Martin's architectural genius. Hawtree. The relatively modern layout has been influenced by the purest tradition of British golf courses. Each hole has a unique architecture and very different points of view.
The wide fairways, the 100 bunkers and the finely modeled greens take place in a typically Solognot landscape around ponds, forests and moor. Good or bad game, you will be seduced by the importance given to the maintenance of the course, playable all year round thanks to its sandy terrain.
Hole n ° 12, a par 5 of 520 meters, bordered on the right by a large sea of heather, will delight the more athletic among you as well as nature lovers.
COURSE - LA CANNE - 9 HOLES - PAR 36 OF 3264M - Architect Olivier Brizon
The La Canne course with a length of 3264 meters (black markers), 2802 meters (yellow markers) and 2419 meters (red markers) is a demanding and long 9-hole course. It revolves around the ponds to go deep into the forest. Varied landscapes, a few well-placed obstacles, a sometimes technical layout… Do not let yourself be (too) distracted by the beauty of the place if you want to make a correct map!
Completely exotic and secure, practicing eco-responsible maintenance, you will find a rich fauna in a completely natural biotope. This private golf course, open to the public, cultivates the respect and tradition of golf associated with the modernism of a sporting layout.
The Germigny golf course is located in the heart of the Berry countryside, in a setting conducive to relaxation in Saint-Hilaire-de-Gondilly, a French commune located in the department of Cher in the Center-Val de Loire region.
This golf course offers amateurs the opportunity to try their hand at a 9-hole course approved by the French Golf Federation. With a length of 2330 meters, dotted with wide fairways and undulating greens, it is quite technical.
Indeed, water obstacles, holes on the edge of the woods, strategically placed bunkers, it is of great interest to golfers of all levels.
Novices, the Germigny valley golf club offers discovery days. For everyone, it can organize seminars and competitions and provide golf lessons and courses. A XNUMXth century farmhouse houses the clubhouse.
Close to Orleans and easily accessible, the Golf de Marcilly opened in 1986 and has a unique structure of 45 holes! This one deploys its greens and fairways in Marcilly-en-Villette, a French commune, in the department of Loiret in the Center-Val de Loire region.
This vast golf structure is available as an 18-hole championship course selected 5 times by the FFGolf for professional tournaments. But also, 3 9-hole courses: a Pitch and Putt, a Compact (the Kaleka Course), and a 9-hole Discovery Course.
For 30 years, Golf and its Association have focused on training many new players. Every year, more than 800 licensees take part in this dynamic. Since 1999, Marcilly has been at the top of the Center Val de Loire League golf courses as a creator of licenses.
The Golf de Marcilly also has infrastructures and a large reception capacity:
A practice of 40 stations, 16 of which are covered
A training area (2 putting greens / an approach area / 2 training bunkers)
The Golf du Château de Maintenon is located less than an hour from Paris, between Rambouillet and Chartres. Traced in the castle park between the lakes and the imposing Vauban aqueduct, this course offers you a high-quality golf experience. Its 18 holes are 5.552 meters long for a Par 70.
At the crossroads of history and sport, the Golf du Château de Maintenon offers you a game full of challenge, diversity and fun, with departures adapted to players of all levels. Circulating around the castle and crossed by the famous Vauban aqueduct, Louis XIV's unfinished dream to supply the waters of Versailles, one would quickly be tempted to forget his game to enjoy the environment.
The course is relatively short but it circulates between bodies of water and trees. It will therefore be necessary to have a very precise game. On the first nine holes, the water is very present! The architect has also deliberately taken care to bring you closer to the water as in n ° 3, a formidable dog-leg. Only three holes will rest you on the return and you can finally relax at the clubhouse contemplating your score card ...
For your training, the Château de Maintenon golf course has a practice with 32 stations, 10 of which are covered, a training bunker and two putting greens.
Located in the heart of the Touraine countryside, a few steps from the Loire castles, 45 minutes south of Tours, the Golf de Loches-Verneuil welcomes you every day in a friendly atmosphere. Accessible to all, its 9-hole course blends naturally with the green setting. A round of golf is played in about 1 hours. The infrastructures support you in learning and improving. Practice 30 covered posts, 6 outside, plus grassed striking areas about 4 posts; approach areas, training bunkers, putting green, lessons given by a state-qualified instructor, video, coaching...
The course
The Loches Verneuil golf course was designed by the architect Mr VAN DER VYNKT, sponsored by Mr Claude BRASSEUR (actor), on a 25 hectare site, spread over 2462 m, rich in diversity, trees, streams, pond….
Its 9-hole course has the advantage of its reduced playing time, around 1h45. The first 3 holes of the course reserve a fairly open game, direct layout from tee to green then the course tightens, bunkers and obstacles come to spice up the game, notice to amateurs…. Beginners will have an accessible challenge within their reach, after a period of learning, they can play their first competitions and improve their ranking.
The golf de la Bosse is located in the heart of the Center region north of Loir-et-Cher. It offers a rustic and elegant 9-hole Links course. Its main course, "Les Bouleaux" is a par 36 of 2973 meters open since 1988 in Vievy-le-Raye. Scottish-inspired course with its yellowed roughs, its wide fairways and its greens well defended by numerous bunkers, this course will seduce you. It is a nice varied terrain, flat, decorated with many plantations of various species, with 3 ponds, a ditch and 26 bunkers in obstacles (which spices up the difficulty of the game!).
Special feature of the course: greens of 700 m2 with two flags, the red flag on the outward journey and the blue flag on the return.
The Golf de la Bosse is located half an hour from Vendôme, Blois, Châteaudun or Beaugency. With the castles of the Loire as neighbors, this area between agricultural fields and tourist sites will seduce you.
The warm atmosphere that emanates from the Club-House will not leave you indifferent, you can enjoy the restaurant terrace and its magnificent view of the golf course.
The Golf du Val de l'Indre is located in the Indre, a few kilometers from Châteauroux. It extends over the 60 hectares of the Parc du Château de Villedieu. The golf course of Val de l'Indre (18 holes) deploys its greens and fairways on the edge of the Trégonce, among the cedars and hundred-year-old oaks of the old park of the castle of Villedieu.
It is a pleasant course to play with a varied design. In the heart of Berry and Brenne, all players can indulge their passion for golf in a peaceful and friendly setting.
Created in 1989, you will enjoy playing on this 18-hole par 72 golf course with a length of 6227 meters. Wooded and slightly hilly, the Golf du Val de l'Indre is suitable for beginners as well as seasoned players. Perfectly maintained fairways, undulating greens, water hazards and 43 bunkers offer a pleasant challenge for all golf lovers.
In addition, a Pitch and Putt school course, a putting green and approach areas allow golfers to improve their skills.
The Bourges Val de Loire golf course is located near the city center of Bourges, less than 2 hours from Paris. It consists of 2 courses and several training areas. Its quality facilities will allow golfers of all levels to play in ideal conditions, all year round. The Ugolf de Bourges Val de Loire was extended in 1999 by the architect Jean-Pascal Fourès and covers 75 hectares. It now offers an 18-hole course and a compact 9-hole course.
The paths
18 holes: With a distance of 5777 meters from the rear tees (par 72), the course offers a great range of difficulties. Its wooded and hilly character does not lack arguments to attract golfers. In play on several holes, the water also holds many surprises!
9 holes: Shorter but very technical, the compact course is a real training and evaluation tool over shorter distances.
Training areas
Practice: 40 stations including 10 covered. Embellished with targets located at different distances.
2 Putting-greens (near the clubhouse)
2 approach areas with bunkers
The Golf de Touraine is located in Ballan-Miré a French commune in the Center-Val de Loire region in the department of Indre-et-Loire, south-west of Tours. The Golf de Touraine offers a magnificent 18-hole golf course that combines technical difficulty and quality of maintenance. The hilly and wooded course has many completely natural water obstacles; its fairways weathered by time are supple and dense, its greens straightforward and fast.
It is a club of members, of sports association status; its teams are regularly ranked among the best French sports clubs.
The Golf de Touraine was the first French club in the Order of Merit Gentlemen in recent years. Many members have become professionals and have evolved in particular on the Challenge tour and the European Circuit.
The Golf du Château de Cheverny is located in the heart of the Loire Castles region. A few minutes from Blois, it welcomes you in an exceptional setting. Designed by architect Olivier Van Der Vynckt, the 18-hole course of the Cheverny golf course perfectly matches the surrounding nature.
In a unique place steeped in history, the course offers an impeccable layout. Indeed, it blends harmoniously into the historic and natural landscapes of Sologne where you can meet deer and deer at sunrise and sunset.
Around the immense Rousselière pond, this former hunting area of Château de Cheverny is today a golf course renowned both for the quality of its landscapes and for its maintenance of the fairways, greens and teeing areas. .
The golf course is located right next to the Moulinsart castle, dear to Tintin and Hergé.
Upstream from the Valley of the Kings which stretches over the castles of the Loire, Sully-sur-Loire opened up to golf in the 9s. The Sully sur Loire golf course offers three XNUMX-hole loops. Its courses deploy greens and fairways between the forest, the plain and a few ponds and water obstacles which spice up the game. At the gates of Sologne, within a club with a family and friendly spirit, the Golf de Sully sur Loire will seduce you
Three 9-hole courses
9 Holes, the Deer, Par 36, 3097 m
9 Holes, Pheasants, Par 36, 2932 m
9 holes, Les Sarcelles, Par 36, 2901 m
With three radically different 9-hole golf courses between the plain, the ponds, the forest and a few drops that one does not necessarily perceive at first glance, the Sarcelles, the Pheasants and the Deer are s' harmonize easily.
Between the wide fairways bordered by the high rough of the Sarcelles, the forest and dogleg holes of the Pheasants and the narrow alleys of the Chevreuils, scoring in Sully should be earned!
At the gates of Sologne, the calm of the course is a pleasure for all golfers. Moreover, it is possible to take a departure without waiting or booking ... A real luxury at an hour and a half from Paris.
The Fleuray-Amboise golf course is located in the heart of the Loire Valley, a stone's throw from the châteaux and vineyards. Haven of peace in lush greenery, undulating with its natural obstacles, this course will seduce you.
Designed in 2001 by architect Mark S. Foster, this rustic 9-hole course unfolds its fairways over a length of 2240 meters. Par 34 approved by the French Golf Federation, the Fleuray-Amboise golf course is suitable for golfers of all levels.
The purpose of the Sarrays golf course is to introduce everyone to the game of golf. It is located at the heart of three natural regions: Berry Champagne, where large cereal farms dominate, Brenne, land of a Thousand Ponds and Boischaut, a bocage devoted to breeding.
In a quiet place, beautiful nature on the edge of a large oak forest, you can easily see various animals of the region (pheasant, roe deer, heron, etc.) and appreciate all the beauties of the Berry nature. The land is flat but very wooded. Beginners love this easily accessible golf course, good players will be able to test the subtlety of this 9-hole course.
You will be charmed by the calm and tranquility that emanates from this place. The golf school is a structure on a human scale, simple and complete, ideal for playing the game of golf: practice, rental of equipment, courses, school holes, bar ... everything for you to have a good time.
In a bucolic atmosphere, the Golf des Sarrays is a place where simplicity and conviviality are cultivated
From Orleans to Saumur, the valley formed by the Loire is called the Valley of the Kings. From the Capetian dynasty to François 1st, the Kings of France chose it as their home. In this region of forests and ponds where game abounds, Italian architects competed in creativity to build castles and hunting lodges. Even when the King and the court chose Paris as their capital, the construction of these princely residences which dominate the Loire never ceased. In the XNUMXth century, it was the turn of the bourgeoisie to compete in neo-Gothic and neoclassical architecture for their homes nestled in the heart of Sologne.
This Valley of the Kings, cradle of the Renaissance, which attracted the greatest foreign artists of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, was able to seduce in the XNUMXth century the great names of English and American golf architecture. Like Cabell Robinson in Orléans-Limère, Michael Fenn in golf course of Touraine et master Robert Van Hagge at Les Bordes.
The Lecoingolf Golf Guide talks about Bordes golf course and ranks it among the most beautiful courses in Europe. This exceptional course in the heart of Sologne shares points with sixteen other long-established masterpieces such as Valderrama in Spain, Royal County Down and Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Muirfield and Carnoustie in Scotland, Royal Birkdale and Royal Lytham St Annes in England… -
Sixteen clubs which have all received prestigious tournaments: British Open, Ryder Cup, Walker Cup… The Bordes golf course is an exception. In accordance with the wishes of Baron Marcel Bich, a man who built his fortune on the invention of the ballpoint pen that he marketed under his name, and his partner the Japanese Mr. Sakuraï, this championship course with a terrible reputation n 'welcomes however that players of "Sunday" come to confront the monster. Too bad, because, with its 6412 meters from the rear tees, it would be a great test for great professional players.
Since its inauguration in 1987, the Bordes have inspired respect. Those who have walked its fairways admire it, those who dream of taking up the challenge dread it. However, the hardness of the course is now softened thanks to a cleaning of the undergrowth and a modulation of the departures which make it .., more affordable. Of Edges, even the par is earned. So what about the birdie! Golfers who make it their second home say it is wise to bogey every hole. A defensive strategy which prohibits attempting at each stroke the greens in regulation, in search of an impossible feat.
Because in this region of hunting with hounds, the birdie or the eagle flee from the first drive, like the deer tracked by hounds. In the evening, golfers usually come home empty-handed, the game bag empty of triumphant scores, the swing destroyed and the heart heavy. At Les Bordes international golf course, we lose our vanity in water obstacles and we learn humility.
When the Bordes golf course opened its doors, golfers discovered the work of an architect unknown in France, Robert Van Hagge. Since then, he has spread his creations in France: Seignosse, Kempferhof, Courson Monteloup, Golf National ... All unanimously recognized as great courses even if the critics criticize him for designs a little too complicated and an expensive cost to maintain its fairways sometimes tortuous.
Lucid on the golfing quality of French players, Baron Marcel Bich decided, a few years later, to build another course near Les Bordes. Easy to play and affordable golf for all budgets. Six years after its opening, the Prieuré de Ganay golf course is still holding its own. Annual fees and inexpensive green fees on weekdays and weekends have won over the golfers of the Loir-et-Cher and the Parisians who came to adjust their swing in Ganay before attacking the neighboring monster. To achieve this 27-hole course, increased to 36 in 2000, Baron Bich found his man, Jim Shirley, Robert Van Hagge's assistant.
The philosophy of this American pro who has taken up residence in France for fourteen years has won over the Baron: "Golf should be fun, fast and easy to play". Van Hagge's antithesis. The mission entrusted to him by Baron Bich seemed insurmountable: a course playable by all, without excessive loss of balls, and whose cost of construction and maintenance is reduced to its simplest expression. Jim Shirley has a budget of three million francs for each 9-hole course. It is little but sufficient for the Texan. With all the wisdom of a sixty-year-old, he made the first slice, the red, which looked like links, then the blue, a 9-hole course drawn in birch trees and yellow, a compromise between the first two courses.
The last one, which opened in the fall of 2000, winds through an oak forest. At the Priory of Ganay, you can leave the sandwedge in the trunk of your car, the twenty-seven holes have only sixteen bunkers! A record. On the red course, you have to wait for the fifth hole to find traces of sand. "The edges of the green are treated in a slight grassy depression which could eventually receive sand", explains its creator. To compensate for this lack of obstacle, the greens are small, tortured and raised ("the best in the region", insist the regulars). Thus, the Priory of Ganay can bravely defend its par 36 on each 9 holes.
Going down the Loire from Chambord to Tours, the Renaissance châteaux raise their turrets around the meanders of the longest river in France. Amboise, Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chenonceau, Azay-le-Rideau… Few of these buildings with Italian-inspired architecture are still inhabited by private individuals as the maintenance costs are now extremely high. Also, families who have been keen to preserve their family heritage open their doors a few hours a day to visitors. At Cheverny castle, the Marquis Charles-Antoine de Sigalas Hurault de Vibray is working hard to bring life to this estate, which the family has owned for five centuries. Sound and light, hunting with hounds, opening to the public (Cheverny was, in 1922, the first private castle visited) allow the Marquis to maintain the estate.
The many tintinophiles also make the pilgrimage to Cheverny, the designer Hergé having used as a model this vast residence completed in 1634 to sketch Moulinsart, the castle of Captain Haddock. The rental of the land in front of the castle where today the Cheverny golf course is a further source of income for the Marquis. This 18 hole that revolves around the Rousseliere, a forty-two hectare pond, does not however have any perspective on the castle. Conscious of the advantage that fairways going up towards this “princely residence” could constitute, the owners are considering an extension of the golf course. A project that should inspire Tintin fans dressed in golf pants, like their hero. And the height of happiness for these comics fans, Snowy of all kinds are allowed on the course.
On the other hand, the golf courses of Tours have integrated the castles into their site. Pretty uninhabited mansion on the Ardrée golf course, one of the flagships of the Blue Green chain, castle-hotel with seven neo-Gothic style towers on the golf course of the same name, around which extends a very flat course of questionable golfing interest and a beautiful XNUMXth century bourgeois residence or golf course of Touraine overlooking a splendid beautifully wooded course.
It was in 1973 that golfers from Touraine, driven out by the construction of the motorway, emigrated to Ballon-Miré, on the Domaine de la Touche and create the golf course of Touraine. On a small surface, the English architect Michael Fenn built an eighteen snail-shaped holes while respecting the magnificent trees of the property: pedunculate oaks, white poplars, sequoias, Judea trees, junipers, Algerian firs … A true paradise for budding botanists who never fail to admire before driving the par 3 of 16, the majestic oak with five hundred springs which extends its imposing bronchi to the left of the starting tee. In Che private golf course with a warm welcome, children are kings. On Sundays, they crowd the 800 m2 putting green sown on an old vegetable patch for approach and putting competitions. These fun training sessions are bearing fruit, the golf course of Touraine won the French club championship, dethroning the Racing Club de France and its team of stars. Far from the spirit of Parisian clubs, the Juniors of the Golf de Touraine represent the future of French golf, if not its renaissance.