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Golf des 24 heures Le Mans is a golf course located at the end of the Hunaudières straight on the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit in the town of Mulsanne in Sarthe. The eighteen-hole course was created and designed by Pfenning in 1961. The golf course is managed by an association law of 1901 and is open to all. It is affiliated with the French Golf Federation. The 24-hour golf course is located in a forest of pines, birches and acacias with sandy soil which offers good playing conditions all year round.
The course
The course is devoid of water obstacles but is lined with areas of heather. The first leg (the first nine holes) has two par three, one par five and six par four. The return (the last nine holes) consists of two par three, two par five and five par four.
In addition, the first nine holes of the course are equipped with lighting (around forty powerful spots). This facility allows certain golf competitions to be carried out at night. This is the case for the annual competition called 24 Hours of Golf, which takes place in June by teams of six players taking turns two by two.
The 24 Hours golf course also has two indoor driving ranges as well as a three-hole pitch and putt.
The Sargé Golf course, designed by Antoine d'Ormesson, was opened in 1989. It has an 18-hole golf course and a 3-hole compact (Pitch & Putt). It is located on a plateau 5 minutes north-east of Le Mans.
You will walk a course suitable for all levels of play, with fairly wide fairways; greens defended by skillfully placed bunkers, bordered by oak and maple trees, offering different points of view over the Sarthois bocage. .
A small Sarthoise farmhouse welcomes the club house. You can eat at the 25th Hour by the wood fire in winter and on the panoramic terrace in summer. The Sargé golf course is also aimed at young people and schoolchildren in a friendly atmosphere.
The Sargé golf course in a few figures:
1 18-hole Par 72 course of 6 m
1 compact three-hole school
1 putting green of 600 m²
1 chipping green of 250 m²
1 training bunker
The Alençon-en-Arçonnay golf course is located in Arçonnay, a pretty French town in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region.
The 9-hole course
The Alençon-en-Arçonnay golf course offers a beautiful 9-hole course that can be played all year round. Fairly flat, you will have to avoid the many obstacles to be able to score. In particular, avoid out-of-bounds and bodies of water where the slightest mistake could seriously damage your scorecard.
Thanks to different departures, golfers play 18 holes on this 9-hole course. The course is both pleasant and full of nice surprises. Alternate the long game on wide fairways and the short game to tame and overcome the obstacles of this hedged land. Also, you will enjoy the most pleasant country setting, specific to the Sarthe countryside.
Training areas
A practice of 250 meters
An approach green with bunker
A putting green
On the Loire Châteaux route in the heart of the Sarthe Valley, a land of generous nature, with the forest, the river and the countryside as witnesses, the 27 holes of the Sablé-Solesmes golf course and its 9 holes flourish. school. A real gem born from the passion of a man, promoter in love with his region; route tailor-made by Michel Gayon, architect, who signs his masterpiece there.
The promoter wanted a high level golf course, thought out down to the smallest detail, where excellence and high standards are combined with pleasure and well-being. The objective of creating a top-of-the-range course, on which diversity and quality reign was achieved in 1992 and has continued to be improved each year. A must see only 1h15 from Paris-Montparnasse, ideally located on the route des Châteaux de la Loire.
Banking on the richness of nature in this superb Sarthois Valley, Michel Gayon played the diversity card to sign three 150-hole and one 18-hole courses on a 9-hectare estate.
In Sablé-Solesmes, the entire range of golf is available. Discover a thousand and one sensations. the golfer goes from a course in the forest, planted with species from the region (La Forêt), to a Scottish links, with clean lines and formidable bunkers (La Cascade), through a target-golf course at the American where water, omnipresent, increases the stake while underlining the beauty of the landscape (La Rivière). And for a few moments of pleasure stolen from a busy schedule, La Cognère offers its 9-hole school.
Here, golf can be modulated as you wish, depending on your level or form. For major events, the Forest and the River are generally associated, thus offering a championship course of 6 meters Under the leadership of the green-keeper, a qualified team maintains this area which combines colors throughout the seasons. Key moment, the flowering in spring of azaleas and rhododendrons, hyacinths and wild foxgloves in the undergrowth as a nice nod to the mythical course of Augusta.
La Cascade course
the purity of a Scottish link
Very lightly wooded, this 3-meter course owes its name to a small river that cascades down towards Sarthe. The fairways seem less demanding.
Be careful however with the model of this hilly terrain and the multiple bunkers!
Because often, like 5, a par 3 without major obstacles but on a well-defended green with its formidable slopes, the Cascade has serious challenges.
The Forest course
A challenge for long hitters
Long and technical, this 3-meter course runs along the forest of Pincé and winds through birch, oak, elm, ash and other species of the region.
The 3, an enormous par 5 of 530 meters, offers a real challenge with its particularly far and narrow fairway, before concluding with a wide green.
The River Course,
The spectacular character of a water course
A vertiginous dive on the Sarthe gives this 2-meter course a very spectacular character. Water, an essential element of the decor, is formidable when approaching a green or along a fairway. The 992, par 3 of 3 meters downhill with its green surrounded by water, gives a good idea of the course of the River, magnificent and terribly dangerous.
Compact La Cognere,
A high-quality school course
A compact 1-meter course features 231 high-quality school holes. Carved on the hillside, on the edge of the Sarthe, the Cognère is an ideal course for beginners as well as for the most seasoned players to whom it offers, in less than two hours, an excellent ground of improvement, in particular at the level of the small game
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