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The Soufflenheim Baden-Baden golf course is located in the heart of Alsace, just 20 minutes from Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. World-renowned golfer Bernhard Langer has created a golf course that still seeks its equal. Indeed, the diversity, the beauty of the landscape and the experience of pure nature; this is the brand image of Soufflenheim. Whether you are an ambitious competitor or a young beginner; everyone falls under the spell of Soufflenheim.
The three golf courses of Soufflenheim Baden-Baden
The 18-hole course
18 holes | 6357m | By 72 | Architect: Bernard Langer (1996)
18 greens, 14 natural ponds, a beautiful course ... A real golfing challenge! Regarding this Alsatian estate, Bernhard Langer said that a designer only has once in his life the opportunity to build a golf course in such a space.
The topography and the existing structures were ideal and required only the small touch of a professional hand to become a magnificent estate which seeks its equal. Just recently, a trade magazine ranked Soufflenheim-Baden-Baden 3th among more than 000 golf courses across Europe.
The 9-hole course
9 holes | 2277m | By 32 | Architect: Bernhard Langer (1996)
A perfect playing area for novices who hold the green card. Indeed, this charming 9-hole course, par 32, is ideal for preparing for the challenges of the "big field". At the same time, it is a playground for beginners. It is open to people who have obtained the Green Card and allows beginners and less experienced players to achieve their first achievements. This is particularly pleasant for golfers who do not yet have a lot of experience: among the various departures, only one presents a fun water hazard. But experienced players like to use this ground to perfect their approaches and their little game.
The 6-hole pitch and putt
6 holes | 369m | By 18 | Architect: Bernhard Langer (1996)
Ideal for discovering golf and developing a taste for it ... This Pitch and Putt school course, par 18, is ideal for all beginners wishing to obtain the Green Card. On this court, the emphasis is on training the short game. Of course, many good players regularly come to play here to improve their skills. The "6-hole course" is also very popular with young recruits who can deepen their practical knowledge here in peace and without undergoing any pressure.
The Golf Club Toul Avrainville is an association responsible for animating and developing an 11-hole golf course located in the Lorraine countryside.
Rustic architecture characterizes the Avrainville Golf course. Surrounded by a small valley in Lorraine, the site is highlighted by the crossing of a stream, the Terrouin, which acts as a natural obstacle. The course is bordered by forests where different species of trees mingle: beeches, oaks, birches, pines, cedars.
The golf course is equipped with a practice of 16 mats and a 4-hole "L'Oiselet" training course.
About twenty competitions take place each year. A pro ensures the passage of the green card and the development of the players.
The pleasure of playing, good humor and volunteering are the particularities of this golf course.
The main course
Difficult course if there is one despite its deceptive slope (126-129-136); Crossed by the Terrouin, a capricious stream, bounded by welcoming woods and undergrowth, the Golf d'Avrainville course does not leave you time to stroll. However, you may be surprised by a deer, a European rabbit and even sometimes wild boars. In the Terrouin, cranes, herons, nutria and recently beavers have found their playgrounds, it is true that this small stream full of fish attracts many fishermen, but also golf balls ... all the pitfalls known and feared by golfers: very thick bunkers and roughs. There you are. You can get closer to the 1st start but also to the mischievous Terrouin. You can place your ball, on the fairway only!
L'Oiselet 4 holes Compact to pass your green card
L'Oiselet is a 4-hole school course redesigned in 2006 to prepare for the green card with a pro.
Created for new licensed players who are not classified or have an index greater than 35,4, the Green Card is an assessment of the player's behavior on the field. The Green Card attests to the ability to play 9 holes in a 3-ball game quickly, calmly, courteously and in complete safety. It opens access to most courses other than the one on which the beginner received his first initiation.
Arc-en-Barrois golf course nestles in the heart of one of the most beautiful forest areas in France. Open since 1987 in the town of Arc-en-barrois, 52 - Haute-Marne, it owes its layout to the famous architect and French champion Jean GARAIALDE.
The Arc-en-Barrois golf club is a 9-hole golf course. The course is a par 36 of 3075 meters, with a putting green, a driving range, 32 bunkers, several dog-legs and narrow fairways ... With a great technical diversity with its 2 ponds and its river, it will appeal to all golfers, beginners or experienced who will be able to play their best golf in a preserved natural setting.
The club house will warmly welcome you and help you discover this magnificent region. Two and a half hours from Paris and one hour from Troyes, you can also enjoy all the pleasures of nature, hunting, fishing, horse riding, etc.
Nestled in the heart of Champagne Crayeuse, the Golf de la Grande Romanie, created in 1987, in a setting reminiscent of the Scottish links from which it is inspired, is located near the village of Courtisols, 15 minutes from Châlons en Champagne.
This course in the limestone subsoil is playable all year round, and accessible to all levels. Its 18 holes or are mixed with trompe-l'oeil, raised greens, wide fairways, multitude of bunkers, is attractive for its technicality and the change of scenery it offers.
The layout alternates winding and narrow holes with blows played blind to wider spaces by opening into the plain while the bunkers sprout like mushrooms like those of the 12, so numerous that the hole s 'called "Sarazen" in homage to the American champion, inventor of the sandwedge in the early thirties.
All the holes have a name, often due to the imagination of Alain Tribout - the first owner -, a reference to mythology, to the region and to the history of golf, even if some remain a mystery to laymen of the golf course. Champagne thing ...
This course is approved for 6145 meters of white landmarks which makes it one of the longest in France. When the wind picks up, this links-type course becomes a real golfing challenge where only the best ball handlers can score.
The Golf de Margut was created on the Maginot Line. In the center of this rather sporty and mountain-type course, stands the first casemate of the line, the roof of which serves as a departure point towards hole n ° 1. Perched at an altitude of 270 meters, a unique 360 ° panorama on a site of exceptional beauty.
At the Margut golf course, you will find simplicity, a warm welcome and great friendliness.
A recent 5-hole extension now offers you to play 14 holes and the possibility of renting a golf cart.
At the heart of the Alsace wine route, come and discover a golf course with character. At the gates of Colmar, in this region combining forests and vineyards, the Golf Resort Ammerschwihr Trois Epis clings its course to the steep reliefs of Alsace.
The Grand Course: Ammerschwihr Trois Epis
18 holes | 5348m | By 70 | Architect: Robert Berthet (1990)
With a length of 5358 meters, this hilly 18-hole course, built by the famous architect Robert Berthet in 1990, is both physically demanding and technically very complete. In addition to the incessant slopes, which will rarely allow you to play flat, you will have to negotiate the small rivers, very present on the course and often in play.
The Charm of Alsace - Mountain Golf between Vines and Forests
A mountain golf course between vineyards and forests, the Golf d'Ammerschwihr is a course with a lot of character. A discovery of Alsace at a glance. At the start of hole n° 14, the centuries seem to have suspended their flight: at the foot, the Walbach Valley and the forest; opposite, the vineyards on the famous slopes; between the two slopes, the steeple of the Saint-Martin church emerging from the brown roofs with the glazed tiles of the village. We can make out the ocher walls and the characteristic half-timbering, with the plain stretching as far as the eye can see as a backdrop.
For the less trained, the cart is recommended, in order to make the most of the panorama offered (especially at the top of hole n ° 12). Golf and nature lovers, the Golf Resort Ammerschwihr Trois Epis will seduce you.
Pitch & Putt
9 holes | 721m | By 27 | Architect: Robert Berthet (1990)
It is a 9-hole school course appreciated by beginners for its diversity. It evolves in an exceptional setting between vineyards and forests. Composed only of Par 3 and approved by the French Golf Federation. This 9-hole golf course of Ammerschwihrest is ideal for discovering the practice of golf
The Golf Club des Bouleaux offers golfers a wooded course surrounded by nature near Mulhouse in Alsace. It organizes golfing events throughout the season for its members, whether they are beginners or experienced players. Golfers passing through Alsace will be delighted to discover a course that combines technicality and environment.
The course
Par 71 of 5772 meters, the Golf des Bouleaux combines tradition, simplicity and naturalness. This route will take you to the heart of the Alsatian landscape where forests and bodies of water become entangled.
You will need to have a large, solid game so as not to leave the fairways that slip into the woods. Water hazards that protect many greens will require precise second shots.
During your round of golf, you will be seduced by the subtle atmosphere of the mists above the lakes on spring and autumn mornings, or by the shadows of the centuries-old trees on summer afternoons.
History
The history of Golf des Bouleaux is not trivial ...
It all starts with a horseback riding course where Renée Seiller, emeritus rider, trains. Leaving Alsace, it leaves, at the gates of Mulhouse, a clearing quickly transformed into a Swin-Golf course, an activity in vogue at the beginning of the 80s.
In 1992, the land was quickly transformed into a real 9-hole golf course, set in a forest of oak and birch trees.
Very quickly, the idea of an 18 hole hit the members' minds. Its inauguration will take place in 2003.
Since 2013, the Golf Club des Bouleaux golf course has been reorganized around a new Club House.
In the heart of the Ardennes, the Golf des Poursaudes offers an 18-hole course combining trompe l'oeil, raised greens and wide fairways. The route takes advantage of the unevenness, woods and plains as well as its natural water obstacles. Hilly, technical and varied, you will appreciate the quality of the fairways and the speed of the greens. Pars 3 are difficult requiring concentration and dexterity to land the ball on well defended greens. Pars 5 are tricky with their hopes of eagles, birdies and moments of glory, can quickly call you to order. The Golf des Poursaudes is a course accessible to all levels of play.
Foot Golf
On a 7 hectare ground unused until then, Thibaut Rigobert created in 2017 a football field, welcome for corporate events. Easier, more accessible than golf, this game can create the desire to reach the fairways, a very smooth transition where everyone is able to kick a ball.
Inaugurated on September 1, 2013 and designed by Michel Niedbala, the Reims Bezannes golf course is ideally located, 10 minutes from the city center of Reims and accessible by tram, within the Bezannes Business Park.
It is located near the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station, and it is 40 minutes from Paris (Gare de l'Est).
The golf course at Reims-Bezannes, which looks like links, will allow beginners to have fun very quickly and good players to work on the “little game” which is the essential element to progress in golf.
Watch out for hole n ° 9 and its island green which will surprise more than one player!
Training areas
The driving range: The most innovative training area in the region! Practice upstairs: 14 covered posts, 16 upstairs posts. Lighting until 20:30 p.m. in winter subject to weather conditions (Free access for members and visitors all year round)
Synthetic strike zone of 20 stations (Free access for members and visitors all year round)
Small game areas:
2 Putting Green (free access)
2 Approach Greens (free access)
Training bunkers (free access)
Golf de Bitche offers 3 courses of 9 holes each just over an hour's drive from Strasbourg and 1h30 from Metz. This golf course located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Northern Vosges will offer you courses that can be practiced all year round. Its long par 4 or 5, swept by a very present wind, offer difficulties that spice up the game, both for beginners and experienced players. A few water obstacles adorn this course, designed by Adam and Formanger. Thanks to its numerous infrastructures and the quality of the equipment and the courses, the Bitche golf course ranks 9th in the Top 10 of the best golf courses in Europe.
Created 50 years ago, the Golf du Rhin has one of the most beautiful courses in the region of the three borders between France, Germany and Switzerland. The course is located in the heart of a magnificent nature reserve on the island between the Rhine and the Grand Canal d'Alsace.
A magnificent 18-hole course playable all year round
Built on a very permeable soil, the course allows the instantaneous evacuation of rainwater. A microclimate also protects it from the rigors of winter. This exceptional situation makes the course practicable all year round. The unique site in a peaceful environment makes the Golf du Rhin a haven of peace and golf turns into a relaxation cure. The pleasant fairways lined with old trees providing their beneficial shade in summer are the striking characteristics of this attractive 18-hole Par 72 course. A wonderful course to share a moment of pure golfing pleasure, in relaxation or in competition!
Training zones
The Golf du Rhin has one of the best training grounds in the region: You have separate locations for Putting, Chipping and Pitching. The practice is equipped with grass and synthetic posts as well as 7 covered locations with lighting. In addition, to complete its offer, the Rhine golf course offers a Compact 3-hole, Pitch and Putt school course ideal for learning about golf.
Ecological golf
Golf and the environment are closely linked. The Golf du Rhin strives to create a wonderful golf landscape, ecologically rich and healthy, by maximizing the natural and cultural qualities of the course, and this, while releasing a positive environmental balance and economical in resources.
The Golf du Rhin has been a "GEO Certified ™" label since June 2012. This prestigious international distinction means that the club meets a series of specific criteria in terms of sustainable development and is committed to constantly improving its environmental record in the fields of landscape and ecosystem, water, energy and resources, materials and supply chains, environmental quality, communities and people.
Alsace Golf Links or Golf d'Alsace is a superb links-type course with a view of the Vosges. Set in a picturesque landscape, the course offers a real challenge for players of all levels. The panorama over the Vosges and over the vineyard villages reflects the gentle contours of the route. The Club-House in an old historic mill will seduce you with its friendly and warm atmosphere where the Club spirit is cultivated.
The 18-hole Links-type course
This Irish-style course is located in a slightly hilly landscape, at the foot of the Vosges hills and on the wine route. You will find a traditional and straightforward course where nature still expresses itself freely. Each season and the diversity it brings to the course offers golfers a new challenge. This golf course with five tees per hole is playable all year round. Also with its 6086 meters, Alsace Golf Links is one of the longest golf courses in France. Multiple water hazards and deep bunkers guarantee a wide variety of playing situations.
The Golf de Vittel Ermitage is located in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region in the famous town of the same name known worldwide for its mineral water.
An Eco-Responsible golf course
The three courses of the Golf de Vittel Ermitage extend over an ecological area of 600 hectares and have just obtained the International Ecolabel "GEO Certified".
GEO Certified (TM), an international golf ecolabel, rewards comprehensive and credible commitment and achievement in sustainability. The eco-label is supported by industry players. It is administered by GEO (Golf Environment Organization), an international non-profit association created to encourage sustainable development in and through golf.
This makes the Vittel Ermitage golf course the second French golf course to be labeled with the National Golf.
Three golf courses to delight golfers
The three courses of the Golf de Vittel Ermitage deploy greens and fairways in the privileged area of the Vittel Ermitage thermal park. It therefore offers two magnificent 18-hole golf courses and a 9-hole Compact golf course.
Le Peulin 18-hole course
The "Le Peulin" course, created in 1986, winds through the forest and will delight lovers of calm and nature. It is accessible to players of all levels. This 18-hole par 72 course, 6100 meters long, shaded and narrow, cut into the Vosges forest, requires prudence and a good playing strategy.
Le Mont Saint Jean 18-hole course
The Parcours Le Mont Saint Jean is a legendary golf course. It is the 2nd golf course created in France in 1905 after the Pau golf course (1856). This physical, hilly and wooded course offers a magnificent viewpoint over the Vittel valley at its highest point. An 18-hole par 72 course of 6236 meters, it begins at the foot of the Hôtel de l'Ermitage.
The compact 9-hole course
In the middle of the racetrack, the so-called Ile Verte course has a huge landscaped practice and a compact 9-hole course. Some holes are long and give an opportunity to use Fairway woods, hybrids, or long irons at the start ... Par 29 is ideal for beginners and learning golf. In addition, a Pitch & Putt project will soon see the light of day also in the Green Island.
The Golf de Nancy Pulnoy is located in the town of Pulnoy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), near Nancy, 15 minutes from Place Stanislas. The layout of the Nancy Pulnoy course will suit golfers of all levels. Slightly hilly and embellished with a few bodies of water, Le Golf de Nancy Pulnoy offers an alternation of holes in the plain and in the forest. Change of scenery guaranteed! It was inaugurated in 1993 and designed by Martin HAWTREE and Thierry FLIPO.
The paths
18 holes: Par 73. Length: 5 meters. Medium-sized greens well protected by cleverly placed bunkers. Moderately fast greens with rather steep slopes. Some relatively short pars 877 (4, 6 and 15). Two pars 17 well protected by water obstacles (3 and 13). Pars 16 accessible in 5 strokes for long hitters (2, 1, 4 and 9,12) with possibilities of birdies or even eagle ...
In addition, to complete its offer, the UGolf du Grand Nancy-Pulnoy offers a school course. Indeed, a 9-hole Compact approved of 560 meters approved by the French Golf Federation will be your ideal partner for discovering the practice of golf.
Training areas:
A practice of 56 stations, including 36 covered, decorated with targets located at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters to work on your precision in the approaches and the long game. Practice open to all, no need for a golf license or a green card .
An approach green spread over different areas as well as a training bunker.
A putting green
A pitching green
About thirty kilometers from the city of Metz and Saarbrücken, the Faulquemont golf course is located in a splendid green setting.
The 18-hole course
Attractive for the pleasure, the calm and the magnificent views it provides, this 18-hole course (Par 73) will enchant you. It is a fairly varied course combining Scottish links and plain courses. Indeed some holes with yellowed roughs and small deep bunkers will remind you of the lunar atmosphere of the most beautiful very British courses of the links type. Also a more wooded part harmoniously contrasts this route to offer you some technical dog legs.
Infrastructures
Whether you are a high-level golfer, an experienced player, a beginner or simply a lover of relaxation, the multitude of services at the Golf de Faulquemont Pontpierre will seduce you. Also at your disposal, a new Club House, an 18-hole Compact course, a putting green, a covered and lit practice. Also discover the hostellerie du Chambellan as well as 3 restaurants: the golf restaurant, the Mezzanine and a Michelin-starred restaurant Le Toya.
Strasbourg, capital of Europe, it is quite a symbol. Plundered, bombarded, martyred, this magnificent city, bathed by Ill and the Rhine, served for seventy-five years as justification for three terribly murderous wars: 1870, 1914, 1940. Three dark dates in the history of France. What fate for this city, declared a free city of the Germanic Empire in 1201, then annexed by Louis XIV in 168 l before becoming the object of the desires of the German soldiers in the 1914th century and inspiring the patriotic enthusiasm of the poilus of the French army of August XNUMX.
Golf in Alsace was born in this beautiful context with the creation, in 1934, of Strasbourg-Illkirch. The very year in which the sound of the boots of Hitler power resounded in the ears of Europe. At the start of the 60s, the reconciliation pronounced by General de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer drew a definitive mark on nearly a hundred years of war rivalries. At Rhine-Chalampé golf course built on an island in the Rhine between Colmar et Mulhouse, Franco-German friendship has been a reality for thirty years. 33% of the members are French, 33% German and 33% Swiss. Perfect equality. This parity is not registered in the statutes of the club. This is a rule that has been followed since the creation of this golf course in 1968 by the presidents and directors, the latter still being of French nationality.
This cohabitation is found in all border golf courses. Of Souffleheim golf course, the latest creation by Bernhard Langer, in Lons-le-Saulnier in the Jura. Because the construction of new courses in Germany and Switzerland is hampered by more restrictive environmental laws than in France. Hence this contribution of capital from German and Swiss financiers who have greatly contributed to the development of the practice of golf in eastern France.
In Rhin-Chalampé, three national holidays are celebrated. July 14 for our compatriots, October 3 for our first cousins and August XNUMX for the Helvetians. The clubhouse dining room is decorated with national flags and everyone has fun. To complete this tour of Europe, England is represented by the architect of the course, David Harradine. The old man has traced a very classic route on this island ravaged from time to time by herds of wild boar. At Rhine-Chalampé golf course, oaks, poplars and birches are the main obstacles of this narrow and very long course from the rear tees. With its 6.400 meters, it is even one of the longest in France and breaks the par of performance.
When you arrive by road from Plobsheim to the Kempferhof golf course, we immediately guess what sauce our golf balls are going to be eaten in. In the brackish water of the ponds that protect the common green of the 9th and 18th. As usual, the architect Robert Van Hagge did not skimp on the traps set for golfers. A game of cat and mouse well known to lovers of Seignosse, Edges or Courson, other creations of this American. Van Hagge loves undulating fairways, large bunkers and island greens. His signatures. With this architect, you never get bored. His works require technique, lucidity, strategy. And a lot of luck to get a good scorecard. In contrast to the more classic architecture of Strasbourg-Illkirch golf course.
Le Kempferhof was born on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean. During a cruise in Corsica which brought together three Alsatian promoters who wanted to offer Strasbourg a top-of-the-range course. Their reference was the Bordes, theextraordinary journey of Baron Marcel Bich in the middle of the Sologne forest. Contacted, its architect Robert Van Hagge was offered a wooded area surrounding a hunting lodge and received carte blanche to satisfy his creative genius.
From a small chapel, the hunting lodge, built in the XNUMXth century, has been transformed into a dedicated boutique hotel or seventh art. Thirteen admirably decorated rooms on the theme of gruesome cinematographic works: La Chinoise by Jean-Luc Godard, Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean, Lola Montès by Max Ophüls… Let's forget the most beautiful, the Eric Von Stronheim suite, homage or director and to the American actor whose performance as a German officer in Jean Renoir's Gronde Illusion has left its mark on generations of cinephiles.
Foodies will rather choose the Wantzenau. This small village or edge of L'Ill, twelve kilometers or north-east of Strasbourg, is renowned for its specialty restaurants. Sauerkraut, forced carp, trout, rooster or Riesling… The most popular, A Lo Barrière, offers hot goose liver and candied pear or gewürztrominer. Gourmets would die for it. For the delights of the dear, it is advisable to discover before the twelve strokes of noon the Wantzenau golf course and its "Alsatian" clubhouse with balconies decorated with geraniums. Designed by the great Basque champion Jean Garaialde, the course gives pride of place to water obstacles. Built on the Ried, the old bed of the Rhine, the Wantzenau golf course has seven hectares of water. That is to say 10% of the total surface of the field of which a part is subdivided by very modern residences. It is Alsatian Florida. With in the role of alligators, the majestic white storks, symbols of Alsace, which find refuge in summer on the top of the chimneys.
La Wantzenau is an aquatic interlude before taking the wine route to Thann. Gewürzstraminer, riesling, sylvaner, tokay… fruity wines appreciated on both sides of the border. The road winds between vineyards clinging to the hillsides and crosses villages tightly packed around churches with slender spiers. It also climbs to the impregnable fortress of Haut Kœnigsbourg. It is in this former castle of Frederick Barbarossa rebuilt by the German Emperor William II that Eric Von Stronheim interpreted his masterful role in the Great Illusion which earned him the honor, sixty years later, of receiving the name of the most beautiful Kempferhof hotel suite.
In this bucolic landscape where vineyards compete for space with deep forests populated with wild boars, Ammerschwihr golf course followed the movement of these steep terrain at the foot of the Vosges mountains. It is a real mountain golf course which culminates at an altitude of 400 meters with grueling climbs towards perched greens which offer as a reward the plunging view over the red-tiled village of Ammerschwihr.
Franche-Comté also has a border line with Switzerland. But unlike a golf course like La Largue, the golf courses Doubs, and Jura were created with 100% French capital. And for the most part by large companies established locally. As the golf course of PrunevelleNear Sochaux, created in 1928 by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, president of the automobiles of the same name. Deià creator of the football club of Sochaux which, in its old Bonal stadium, had its heyday in the 30s by winning the French first division championship in 1935 and 1938 as well as the French Cup in 1937, Jean-Pierre Peugeot brought the golf course back to the factory. Revolutionary for the time!
Thus, the first corporate corporate golf course was born in the Doubs. In a golfing landscape that has changed considerably since then, Prunevelle is still the only company course. However, other bosses of large, small and medium-sized businesses have since purchased golf courses. But not for the same original social purpose as that developed by the Peugeot family in the pre-war period.
In the Jura, after a reorganization and a few years, a magnificent golf course was born, the official name of which is " the Val de Sorne". Botanist at heart, its owner plants new trees, maples, oaks, and takes care to preserve some beautiful specimens even if these are real worries for the game. Thus, in the middle of the fairway of 13 stands a splendid ash tree - known as the president's tree - which hides from view a raised green that golfers call the Volcano.
The next hole, which culminates at an altitude of three hundred meters, allows you to embrace at a glance the remote, this typical valley of the Jura in a cul-de-sac, and the pretty villages of Vernantois, Moiron and Courbazon. The fourth which jiustifies at the fourteenth hole, "the hole of the four bell towers" is an extension of its green that of Montaigu, which saw the birth in 1760 of Claude Rouget de Lisle, composer of the Marseillaise, initially known as a song of war for the army of Rhine.
Often the wars that we imagine in a burst of pride won are only shameful defeats, pitiful debacles. At Besançon golf course, drawn in a very pretty forest of fir trees, the players defy flowers to the clubs this 18 holes which seem - the mirage dear to golfers - easy. And after fifteen successful holes year after year, fatigue, weariness and pressure begin to take their toll.
The 16 is a fairly banal par 5, straight, 482 meters long, the drive of which must make its way in a narrow green corridor. Unmistakably, the wagons park near the forest while their owners part the branches of the trees in search of their balls. And the triumphant scorecard, which we were about to display proudly in front of our friends installed on the terrace of the clubhouse, turns into a scrap of paper that we sign at the exit of the green of 8 in a shameful manner. . This cursed hole inspired the members of the golf course to form a “16 to 16” association. Understand sixteen strokes - yes, you read correctly - on the par 5 of 16. "All golfers in Besançon are members", we say with a burst of laughter. After so many hardships in their long history, the people of eastern France have learned to laugh at adversity.