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The Picardière golf course is a true green setting at the gates of Sologne. The eighteen-hole course is spread over a sixty-hectare area dotted with old oaks and small lakes. This Par 72 of 5 meters designed by Jean-Louis PEGA offers harmony, tranquility and happiness for the golfer. A treat for the initiated, a universe to discover for the beginners. In a warm and friendly atmosphere, the Picardière golf course offers novice players a range of facilities that everyone appreciates in their own way:
Large practice with covered positions
Putting green
Pitching greens
Compact 6-hole course.
Urban Golf open since September 22, 2007, the golf de la Gloriette is the golf course of the City of Tours, and therefore a public service delegation with private management. With a classic 9-hole course, an 18-hole pitch and putt, 2 putting greens, a golf academy and an illuminated practice with 14 covered and 14 uncovered stations, the Golf de La Gloriette, on 40 hectares at the gates of the city of Tours, welcomes experienced golfers and beginners.
18 HOLES PITCH & PUTT COURSE
By 3 holes between 50 and 100 meters
No need for a green card or license
Departures without reservations.
FFgolf approved for competition and index
CLASSIC COURSE 9 HOLES
Par 36 distance 2664 meters max
FFgolf license and green card required
Handicap or level of play required
Departure by reservation
Ffgolf approved for competition and index
TRAINING AREAS
Practice 30 stations, 15 of which are covered.
2 putting greens
A zone of rolled approaches
A raised approach area with a bunker.
A golf academy with a covered building of more than 70 m2 with 2 stations,
Videos and tailor-made fitting clubs workshop.
The Dryades golf course is located about forty kilometers from Châteauroux. It stretches in a wooded park, surrounded by the green countryside of Berry in the heart of the Indre.
Full of charm, the Château de Pouligny Notre Dame rises 300m from the golf course. Its elegant architecture dating from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries will seduce you.
Golfers take advantage of the many facilities offered by the Les Dryades Golf & SPA hotel resort:
Bar and restaurant at the Club House,
SPA treatments much appreciated after the effort on the greens
Quality hotel accommodation
Various leisure activities at the resort and in the Berry region ...
The Les Dryades Golf Course
Designed by architect Michel Gayon in the heart of the Black Valley, the 6124-meter course is clearly one of the most beautiful in the Center Val de Loire region. Quite technical, it includes 16 water hazards, wide fairways and well-maintained greens.
Par 72, the 18-hole Dryades golf course follows the gentle valleys of the estate, crossed by rivers and bordered by tall foliage. If the progression holds some nice technical surprises, the course is however aimed at all levels of players, beginners and confirmed.
You will undoubtedly be won over by the wild and peaceful beauty of the Berry countryside.
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 de Sancerre is located on the edge of the Loire. With the hill of Sancerre as a backdrop, this course traced in the middle of hundred-year-old trees, decorated with natural water obstacles, is recognized as one of the most attractive in central France. The quality of the greens, the warmth of the welcome, the immediate proximity of the famous Sancerre vineyards make it a privileged golf destination.
The setting was there: the route of the course already inscribed between large hedges and the old arms of the Loire. Subtle harmony of a respected nature, discreetly embellished. The fairways thread their way, flush with the ground, the raised greens invite you from afar… You are under the spell, 18 times…. The numerous bunkers and water obstacles pose interesting problems for experienced players but the difficulties are never discouraging, the length is reasonable: no unnecessary stress, the game is still fun.
Signature holes
The Fifteenth Hole: The 3rd par 5 of the course, you will be wary of the out of bounds on the right and the acacia grove on the left, during your drive. Be careful on arrival, the approach to the green is full of bunkers to the right; it is therefore prudent to approach it from the left. You can then admire this green in its acacias case with the hill of Sancerre in the background.
The Seventeenth Hole: Diabolical par 4 with an out of bounds on the right, a river on the left! For the drive, not too many problems: the fallout zone is wide but the nightmare begins with the second shot: it takes extreme length and precision to hit the green in 2. The river and the out of bounds are sneakily closer together before the green, leaving only a very small corridor. Better to be careful, but even in this case any error in the trajectory will be fatal.
The Golf de Sancerre in a few figures
18-hole course (par 72), length 5 m, full watering
Approved pitch & putt (6 holes)
650 m2 putting green, approach green, practice bunkers
Practice of 25 stations, including 10 covered
600 m2 clubhouse with changing rooms, toilets, showers, pro-shop, bar, restaurants (accessible to all, golfers and non-golfers), equipment and seminar rooms.
The golf de la carte is a golf hotel located on the banks of the Loire. Close to the XNUMXth century Chateau de Chaumont and the Royal Chateau of Blois.
In the heart of the Loire Valley and built on the old bed of the Loire, the golf course of La Carte welcomes you in a green and peaceful setting.
The 9-hole course of 2947 meters is suitable for golfers of all levels. It is a Par 36 which partly rests on sandy soil and is therefore passable all year round. Some elevated greens and defended by natural obstacles (bunkers and water obstacles) judiciously placed will require a precise set of irons.
For beginners, a compact 9-hole course allows you to progress while having fun.
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.
In the heart of nature, the Golf de Sologne extends over an area of 200 hectares. Between Orleans, the Châteaux of the Loire and in the heart of Sologne, the 18-hole course is laid out in the forest. Bordered by the Cosson river and dotted with ponds, the Golf de Sologne has a natural and authentic character typically Sologne.
The birth of an exceptional golf course
The Golf de Sologne, the oldest in the Center region, was created over 65 years ago in a wooded park dating from the 19th century, in the middle of a majestic forest. It was after the Second World War that the Golf de Sologne was born.
A panoramic and authentic route
What strikes you at first sight when you play for the first time on the golf course of Sologne, are the trees. Trees more than a hundred years old, of all species, which draw a landscape of exceptional quality. The second impression is space. The 18-hole course of the Golf de Sologne winds its way between woods and ponds. On the whole route, all the flora and the characteristic landscapes of Sologne come together. The rapid passage of a deer, a doe or the frequent flight of wild ducks are the unexpected attractions ...
A course designed for all golfers, from beginners to experienced golfers
From a sporting point of view, the Golf de Sologne does not have the reputation of an easy course. 5971 meters long, it offers various difficulties over the course of the game that surprise seasoned players. The original course has been redesigned by architect Olivier Dongradi, while retaining its wild character. Indeed, the fairways have been widened, the greens enlarged and put back in shape and new bunkers come to spice up the game. A superb water obstacle completes the course, which crosses the Club House pond right through to join the green of 18.
The Golf du Chateau des 7 Tours is located in the town of Courcelles-de-Touraine in the department of Indre-et-Loire. The Chateau des Sept-Tours is an 18-hole golf-hotel - par 72 of 6093 meters open since 1993.
The Baroque Château des 7 Tours welcomes you through a huge alley lined with old oaks and tall poplars. Since 1990, an attractive 18-hole course has surrounded the seven towers of the castle. Today, the only fortresses of this 15th century mansion are the sand bunkers that defend the greens, flags and holes.
We will remember the very beautiful hole n ° 14: a par 5 with a slight dogleg on the left. A nice game play and 3 large hideout pines located at the end of the drive. The course, built around the castle of the 7 towers dating from the 15th century is partly wooded on the way out, offering a single par 3 and two par 5 of 500 meters (n ° 5) and 520 meters (n ° 9). Earn points on the return, more clear.
The Nançay Sologne golf course welcomes you in a natural green setting where conviviality and family spirit reign throughout the year. Designed in 1990 by architect Gaëtan Mourgue d'Algue, the Nançay Sologne golf course has a 9-hole golf course. It is located in the Sologne countryside, at the gates of Berry, in Nançay, a French commune located in the Cher department in the Center-Val de Loire region.
The 9-hole course
This charming 9-hole course is maintained without pesticides in order to best preserve this natural setting. You will find a flora and fauna rich in diversity. It is a wooded course, the panoramas of which vary according to the seasons and the changes in colors of the foliage.
Be careful, the 9 holes of the Nançay Sologne golf course will not be let down. The difficulty of the course increases crescendo. As the holes progress, you will have to be more and more concentrated to avoid the obstacles that will get in your way. Do not get caught in the trap, it is with strategy that this course can be tamed.
The signature hole
Hole 7 is the signature hole of the Golf de Nançay Sologne. It's a Un Par 4 Nicknamed "the devil hole". Indeed, this hole is a living hell for many golf players. The very delicate first shot would obviously require an iron to be pulled out, but the temptation to Drive can lead to birdie or Catastrophe. The wisest thing is to place your ball in the center of the fairway 15 meters wide and bordered by water and forest. For the second shot: avoid attacking the green or you will be punished 9 times out of 10, either in the water or in the woods on the right. Try to stay on the fairway and play it in Par 5, it s the best solution here a bogey is worth a birdie ...
A friendly golf course
The watchword is conviviality! The Nançay Sologne golf course attaches particular importance to the quality of the reception of players from all over France. He regularly receives groups, you can organize your visit by contacting the golf reception. The Nançay Sologne golf course also offers ranking competitions over 9 holes.
A few kilometers north of Tours, the Tours Ardrée golf course takes its name from the magnificent Château d'Ardrée. Indeed, the beautiful building of the XIXth century rising on the edge of the greens recalls the rich historical heritage of the castles in the Loire Valley.
The Golf de Tours Ardrée course extends over more than 100 hectares of wooded greenery. The golf follows the gentle curves of the Pays de Loire valleys. This is the charm of the route deployed in the heart of the verdant nature of the Touraine countryside. Its fairways unfold over a length of 5745 meters and offers an 18-hole course for a Par 71. It is part of a 140-hectare park. Majesty of century-old cedars, thick woods, wide undulating greens and water hazards give the golf all its character.
In the heart of the Loire Valley and a few minutes from its sumptuous châteaux, come and discover the Golf Bluegreen Tours Ardrée! Without a doubt, you will be won over!
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 Golf de Vaugouard is a course practicable all year round which evolves in a very wooded environment, between oaks, willows and birches. It has managed to preserve all the charm of nature, with its exceptional, hilly environment adorned with pretty ponds where Canada geese have now established their migratory stopover.
After your round, the brasserie will open its doors to you with catering adapted to golfers and a pleasant terrace in summer overlooking the golf course.
If you are looking to play Golf in the Center-Val de Loire Region, Le Domaine et Golf de Vaugouard is a serious option!
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 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.
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.