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Golf courses On the eastern borders - Golf courses

From Strasbourg to Lons-le-Saunier, the border line was very disputed during the past century. Today, the golf courses, also very popular with the Swiss and the Germans, are the symbols of reconciliations considered, yesterday, impossible. And the bullets whistling there are peaceful.

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.

Souffleheim golf course

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.

Golf of Rhine-Chalampé

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.

Kempferhof golf course

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.

Wantzenau golf course

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.

Ammerschwihr golf course

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.

A region rich in golf courses

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.

A little tour in the Jura at the Val de Sorne golf course 

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.

Besançon golf course through the trees

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.

Anecdotes and quotes from golf courses in Eastern France. Did you know ?

  • The fairways of Soufflenheim are surrounded by houses
  • The Haut Kœnigsbourg red sandstone castle is perched five hundred meters above sea level. An impregnable fortress!
  • In Rhin-Chalampé, the fairways are straight and flat but this course, one of the longest in France, is difficult to score
  • It was while playing at Les Bordes that the promoters of the Kempferhof invited the American Robert Van Hagge to draw their course.
  • A par 3 of Kempferhof strangely looks like hole 2 of the National Golf. Same green protected by a large body of water, same punishment.
  • The Kempferhof is the best golfing challenge in Alsace. Even if a road sign indicates 27 holes, there are still only 18 in the town of Plobsheim
  • All the buildings of the Wantzenau was built on the model of an Alsatian village. The abundance of water hazards apparent this course to Florida. On these sloping greens, the golfer puts his back to the ioli Alsatian village ofAmmerschwihr
  • The hills ofAmmerschwihr are covered with vineyards. After 18 holes, a glass of white wine is much appreciated on the clubhouse terrace
  • River The Largue which gave its name to the golf course is in place on many holes.
  • Saved from bankruptcy by an industrialist passionate about golf course Val de Sorne is today one of the "musts" of Jura
  • In the Val de Sorne, more commonly known as the Lons-le-Saunier golf course, the hotel rooms overlook the fairways. Silence guaranteed