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Opened in 1929, on the heights of Mont-Canisy a few minutes from downtown Deauville, the Golf Barrière Deauville is recognized as one of the most beautiful golf courses in France.
The architects Tom Simpson and Henry Cotton designed three nine holes (red course, white course and blue course), thus allowing each one a diversity of pleasures in an environment of 70 hectares.
Beautifully maintained, and offering many views of the sea and the countryside, the Golf Barrière de Deauville is a true Championship Golf Course.
Theater in the past of:
the French Open,
Ebel Match Play
Air France Madame
Events highly prized by many champions such as:
Gary Player
Tony Jacklin
Peter Fowler
Big international stars present in Deauville during the American Film Festival such as Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Georges Clonney, or Samuel L. Jackson regularly come to enjoy this preserved place and the hotel Barrière Deauville.
The Golf Barrière Deauville also has many facilities allowing you to train before your course or throughout your stay.
On site, you will find a tractor unit with 20 covered and 40 open stations, 1 Putting green, 1 Training bunker and Approach Greens.
The Omaha Beach Golf has 2 18-hole courses, with distinct landscapes between land and sea. Let yourself be seduced by the "La Mer - Par 72" course overlooking the sea and the village of Port-En-Bessin.
You will also appreciate the hilly and wooded course "Le Manoir - Par 71", with its many ponds, always in a typically Norman atmosphere with its grove, its anthology of massif and fruit trees giving wonderful flowers in the spring.
The La Mer Course 18 holes - Par 72
The setting, on the green of hole 6, is magnificent. Placed at the end of the cliff by Yves Bureau, the architect, it overlooks the city of Port-en-Bessin and its boats, it offers a panorama on the artificial port of Arromanches, on the gun batteries of Longues-sur- Sea, still very present vestiges of the D-Day landings.
The sea can be seen on the green of n ° 1, long par 5 facing the wind, on 2, superb par 3 aligned with the Vauban Tower, at 6 of course but also at the start of 7, long par 4 which turn your back then on the green of 9, the start of which is located just behind the water obstacle. The blue of the sea and the green of the bocage are the dominant colors of this course which allows golfers of all levels to live their passion.
Le Manoir Course 18 holes - Par 71
Le Manoir is a feast for the eyes with stunning views over the surrounding countryside. This course turns out to be a real golfing challenge where all the shots must be carefully considered, from the drive to the putting. You will certainly not forget the sight of 2 and 3, the technicality of 4 and 5 and the face-offs of 6 and 9… All to your clubs!
Back-tee technique (Slope 146 black), this course becomes again soothing and quieter for players starting from the most advanced tees. Greenery and bodies of water will mingle with your walk for some, while the best undecided will have a hard time with formidable greens and dangerous roughs. A flexible route à la carte.
The Yerville golf course is a 9-hole course created in 2003. It is located in the heart of the Pays de Caux and allows you to learn golf in a relaxed atmosphere. Throughout the year, events and competitions are offered to members and visitors. Open to all, it allows beginners to discover golf in complete serenity, as well as more experienced players to perfect their training.
The Association
The Association Golfique Yervillaise was created on August 20, 2001 with one objective: to make golf accessible to all. The AGY is not reserved for the initiated only, there is no selection at the entrance, we play immediately whatever its level. It is a place of exchange, friendship and conviviality which already has more than 300 passionate members.
You will find at the Yerville golf course:
An 9-hole course
A covered and lit practice!
A putting green
A club house
Competitions open to all
And very affordable prices!
Near the landing beaches, the Golf de la Presqu'île du Cotentin is a magnificent 18-hole course on the Normandy coast. It is a real links located in a preserved area of 60 hectares, facing the island of Tatihou and the Vauban towers (classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
The Cotentin Peninsula Golf offers a variety of games with:
9 holes by the sea with a magnificent view of the bay of Hougue,
9 holes in the Normandy bocage, a remarkable environment between bocage hedges and reed beds.
Arranged over fifty hectares between the dune coast and the Cotentin marshes, the Presqu'île course fits perfectly into an exceptional natural site.
Designed by Yves Bureau, architect renowned for varying its effects and balances, offers a sporting challenge for players of all levels. To score well, you will need to master a wide variety of strokes and rely on the leniency of the sea breeze. A par 72 of more than 5 meters harmoniously combines the first links holes of the seaside and the extension arranged on a space of bocage and interior marshes through water obstacles, bushy hedges and reed beds.
This Norman course offers a real challenge to the most demanding players but also a magnificent walk for the less competitive who will appreciate its comfort and its environment.
Alone or as a couple, with family or friends, whatever your level, you will find at the Golf de la Presqu'île du Cotentin the pleasure of the little white ball in an exceptional environment. An invigorating, stimulating experience, quite simply essential.
Located on the heights of Rouen, the Golf de Bois Guillaume combines the pleasure of playing and technical difficulties. The hilly and wooded course has water obstacles, bunkers and other traps that will surprise you throughout your game.
The course
With its 2400m, it is longer than a classic compact 9-hole course. The architect who made it is called Thierry Sprecher. Very renowned in his field, he worked on this project, in close collaboration with the founder-owner-manager of the golf course. The goal was to allow beginners to try it out but also to offer a nine-hole course allowing experienced players who have little time to benefit from a quality tool for training.
This fairly technical 9 hole par 35 is very hilly. Indeed, you rarely have your feet flat, far from it and that requires knowing how to adjust your stance and your swing according to the slope. Very well maintained, departures, greens, ... It offers interesting points of view thanks to its position in height, while skirting hundreds of meters of forest. As for the fairways, you have to wait for nature to do its work, but it is progressing quickly!
The route winds through the towns of Bois-Guillaume (11 ha) and Saint-Martin-du-Vivier (4 ha). With its two par 5s and a few other fairly complex holes to play, it fits naturally into the landscape, following the undulations of the terrain, without wearing down the ardor of those who roam it almost daily.
The Golf Training Center
Next door, the Golf Training Center will also allow you to work on all the golf strokes necessary to tame your course.
The center in a few figures:
9 holes, 2310m long, 100% sand quality green.
100 stations dedicated to big games (36 covered and lighted, 40 uncovered and 24 on grass), more than 300 meters of driving
Large 600 m2 putting green with plateau.
Large training bunker.
3 pitch and putt holes.
Coated parking lot with 100 spaces.
Club house with restaurant
Open to everyone, adults and children, beginners and experienced.
Built in 1927, in the heart of the Andaines national forest and on the edge of the spa and tourist resort of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, the sporty and family-friendly golf course of Bagnoles de l'Orne dominates the clearing of the "Gué aux Biches" »That crosses a river often in play at the edge of the fairways.
Flat and very pleasant to play, it is nevertheless not easy to score. The river, in play on 7 holes, are added many out of bounds and that there is no par 5 to breathe. The stags and does, which do not hesitate to come on the greens, can also distract you… You will thus have a good moment of relaxation!
Practice (10 stations including 4 covered),
Putting green
Training bunker
In the Eure region, 1h30 from Paris, the Center Parcs golf course covers 65 hectares.
Built on the edge of the forest of the Château des Bois Francs and designed by Yves BUREAU, this 9-hole PAR 37 will surprise you with its 3 PAR 5 and its holes exposed to the wind.
The many strategically placed water obstacles offer you a real golfing challenge. The Domaine des Bois-Franc thus offers you the opportunity to play golf in an ideal setting. The beauty of the landscape and the diversity of the obstacles will delight all lovers of this sport. A perfect place for family and golf vacations.
The Golf de Bévilliers, in Gonfreville l'Orcher, welcomes you in the warm setting of its 9-hole course. and its 1924th century Renaissance mansion, listed as historical monuments since XNUMX.
Within a wooded park, the Golf de Bévilliers is the ideal place to improve or discover the practice of golf. At the bend of a bridle path sheltered by hundred-year-old trees, the architect Stuart Hallet has designed a strategic course with a clear layout underlined by synthetic greens to play there all year round.
Training areas:
A small game area: 1 putting green. You will be able to practice your putts of all lengths, as well as putts. 1 approach green.
A great game area: About forty practice stations. Work on your swing with the same sensations as on a course. Two synthetic greens are at your disposal on the practice as well as 5 natural greens all defended by bunkers to put you in a real playing situation. To guide you, targets are distributed on the practice at different distances.
Grass area: open from April to the end of October.
Located 60 km south of the Calvados coast, 60 km east of the bay of Mont Saint Michel, the golf course of Vire La Dathée deserves your full attention. Designed by Yves Bureau, in a magnificent natural site, it leans against the wood of La Haye and extends on the shores of Lake Dathée. Opened in 18 holes in June 2008, it combines new and old holes in a perfect balance.
You will be seduced by a very technical go where the precision will prevail over the length, and this from the hole n ° 2 which calls for the greatest caution. Your plays must find the right passage through the hedgerows and avoid the many water features hidden behind the embankments.
The return will allow the drivers to express themselves. From 12 to 17, the obstacles being less present, the wide fairways will allow some inaccuracies. And if the quality of play is not there, take advantage of the setting and taste the finest things in the Pays Virois. If the game is there, be careful when putting 18 into play (out of bounds on the right), you will then be able to appreciate the friendliness and welcome at the clubhouse, strong points of the Vire La Dathée golf course.
The Golf du Parc d'Albosc is located in the green countryside in the heart of the Pays de Caux between Le Havre and Rouen, near the sea 20 km from Fécamp and 30 km from Etretat, in a typical Norman landscape, 2 hours from Paris.
Whether you are sporty, or to discover golf and the region, the golf course at Parc d'Albosc in Rouville (Normandy) is available according to everyone's wishes. The Rouville golf course is located on a farm, adjoining cottages available to tourists and golfers, a welcoming club house adds to the pleasure of golf.
PAR 34 over 2300 m, hilly and adorned with ponds, this 9-hole course equipped with synthetic greens is truly technical for those who wish to measure their strength there, but also remains accessible to beginners.
A 9-hole technical course in a natural site
An illuminated night practice which can be used at nightfall and is fun with 10 covered bays and 6 outdoor bays
A putting green
An approach green
The BREHAL golf course was created in July 1964 by Guillaume de MANEVILLE. Against all odds, which is saying a lot in the bay of Mont Saint Michel, he fought to reserve a few hectares of the Vanlée harbor for a sporting activity that was still relatively unknown at the time.
With a handful of volunteers he was able to impose his idea and over the years, the work of successive members and presidents has made it possible to obtain the current land
9-hole Links-type golf course available all year round. Very nice view of the sea and the Chausey Islands. Quality and well maintained course. Club house and school course. Animated all year round with sponsored competitions, inter-club meetings or private meetings.
The Golf d'Arnouville consists of two courses: 9 holes & 9 holes school. The fairways are natural and the greens synthetic. This is the originality of this golf course validated by the FFG. It is respectful of the environment with its synthetic greens, which, without harming the performance of golfers, do not require any watering and coring or the use of phytosanitary products. In addition, they are playable all year round from January 1 to December 31 with regular rotation!
The Golf d'Arnouville provides golfers (subscribers or not) with several training areas in order to train according to their wishes and level (confirmed or beginner).
A synthetic putting green with different trays, located at the entrance to the golf course, in front of the club house.
An approach green with a practice bunker, also located at the entrance to the golf course, in front of the club house.
A practice of 9 stations including 4 covered and sheltered from the Norman rain, on the edge of the field. The targets are located at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters.
The Golf d'Étretat is located in Seine-Maritime in the Normandy region. It offers a course of rare and wild beauty which overhangs the Norman cliffs and the bay of Étretat.
History
The Golf d'Étretat has a long history. Indeed, if it opened its doors in 1908, the first draft works date from 1906. At the very beginning, there were only 11 holes. There was not only golf on the course: at Manneporte, there was a pigeon shooting range!
Also, the old clubhouse was located at the level of the current departure of hole number 11.
Back then, it was the place to show off; Étretat was then mainly frequented by a Parisian clientele who came in the footsteps of the Impressionists. It is also from hole number 11 that you can see the ruins of Fort Fréfossé which overlooked the bay.
The whole course has evolved enormously since its creation but the last big modification dates back to 1990 when the terrain was widely extended. It was already in 18 holes at the time but today better distributed over 5 hectares more.
The sea, the cliffs and the scorecard!
The course is built on the cliffs of Étretat and the sea is visible from every hole. It is a seaside course where the wind plays a key role. The prevailing wind often comes from the west even if in spring, we can have a totally opposite wind. Here, it is called the nordet (north-easterly wind). It can be quite cool and powerful in the order of 25 to 30 knots (55 km / h). We usually say that in Étretat, we can have four seasons on the same day.
Arnaud Massy Architect of the Etretat golf course
Arnaud Massy is at the origin of the design of the golf course with the architect Julien Chantepie. Together they rode the first 11 holes. Massy, winner of the British Open 1907, then went to play elsewhere. But he ended his career here, and some of the former members even had him as a pro in 1948 and 1950, just before he passed away.
The Golf d'Étretat receives good people: Jean Garaïalde came to play here, like Michel Platini or Yannick Noah ...
Hole number 10, the Étretat icon
It is the most famous hole of the course, the one that we see in all the photos. Its beauty comes from its elevated departures, which give a rather dizzying view. It has always been the handicap 1 hole of the Golf d'Étretat course (the most difficult hole of the course). You have to stay on the fairway at all costs. New players arriving at the Alabaster Coast often break their teeth on this hole. We have already seen a player do 33 here. He must have lost about fifteen balls at the start.
18 holes between sky and sea
The Étretat golf course is an 18-hole course - PAR 72 - 6 m long.
This golf course enjoys an exceptional location, overlooking the sea and the bay of Étretat. The various magazines classify it each year among the best French golf courses. It is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable "marine golf courses" in France.
If you come to play golf in Normandy, playing on the Étretat course you will discover a demanding terrain as soon as the wind blows, but whatever your score you will remember a magical moment.
The SARL du golf du Bief has invested in recent years to expand its course by three additional holes, bringing it to 12 holes. "We hope, within five years, to expand it further to 18 holes", specifies Pierre Debiais, the president. Open on July 6, 2013, the Golf du Bief is a course located 2km from Trun in the Orne on a natural area steeped in history in the heart of the battlefield of the Falaise Chambois pocket.
The 12 holes will offer you Par 4 of 390m but also of 260m, Par 3 of 185m or 110m, and Par 5 of more than 500m. Water, either the river, the ponds or the Bief du Moulin dating from the year 1010, is still in play. The Golf du Bief requires thought and a careful strategy. Come and try the experience!
For this extension, the owner called on the architect Stuart Halette, who had already designed the start of the course. From a mustard field, which was flat, 30 m000 of soil was moved over 3 ha, to fill or clear certain areas. Thus creating a pretty landscape of hills and valleys that golfers traverse to reach the last three holes.
Another innovation of the Bief golf course is the construction of a driving range: large wooden shed offering six training stations and equipped with a machine that distributes the balls. “We hope to open a golf school next spring,” announces Pierre Debiais. We are too small to employ a full time teacher, but we hope to find someone willing to come two or three afternoons a week. We get in touch with the other clubs in Orne and Calvados. "
Possibility of an extension to 18 holes in the coming years ... A golf course of the future!
In the heart of Normandy, come and discover the Saint Saens golf course, in the center of the Eawy forest, the largest beech grove in France. This flagship of the Norman club welcomes you all year round.
A course as technical as it is pleasant: The Saint Saens course is a par 71 of 6009 meters. Varied, it is broken down into three distinct parts: the river, the forest, and the plateau which each offer different difficulties.
The “river” part from 1 to 5 is characterized by the Varenne which borders the fairways and the greens.
The "forest" part from 6 to 10 winds through the forest of beeches and hundred-year-old oaks.
The "plateau" part, the final, where the less narrow fairways allow the hitters to breathe a little, to finish with the cruel par 3 N ° 17 and, at 18, on a green bordered by bunkers with the superb castle in the background which offers the whole a real majesty.
Saint Saens offers you to play all possible golf shots in a unique and sumptuous setting. The omnipresence of the Eawy Forest and the castle dominating the valley give the golf course the elegance and natural charm of the Normandy countryside.
Less than an hour from Paris and 20 minutes from Rouen, the Léry Poses golf course is worth a detour and will appeal to all golf and nature lovers. This great Normandy course covers more than 75 hectares in an exceptional setting.
It consists of an 18-hole Par 72 course of 6 meters and a Compact Par 168 course. The latter of 27 meters can be converted into an approved “pitch and putt”. A vast Practice of 900 stations including 48 covered, and an approach green as well as adapted equipment make this structure ideal for initiation, improvement and training.
The Léry-Poses golf course is perfectly suited for welcoming beginners, schoolchildren, works councils as well as the training of experienced golfers.
A large harmonious 18-hole course signed H. James Baker
Between the loops of the Seine and a 250 hectare lake, in a bucolic and relaxing setting, you will discover wide faiways bordered by short but dense roughs which will have to be avoided to reach the greens of a few long par 4s on the course.
With a length of 6163 meters, the 18-hole golf course of Léry-Poses does not present insurmountable difficulties. It will suit both experienced golfers and beginners. Aside from a few notable dog legs (holes 1, 2, 5, 8 and 14), the fairways are accessible and the trees far enough from the playing area do not punish drive gaps too much. Lovers of powerful drives can therefore let go and beginners can work on their precision.
Training areas
The Léry-Poses Golf has many training areas:
The practice: 48 mats, including 14 covered - practice on grass - the practice with a length of 250 meters in a circle, includes poles of length / height, target baskets receptacles, distance indicators, at 60 and 80 meters for the exercise of precision - long bunker shots.
The compact: Ideal for beginners and for training, this compact 9-hole course of 9 par 3 with a total length of 900 m offers you real greens.
Small game area: To practice, we offer an area with a green and bunker. Lobbed, rolled approaches, bunker exits ...
The putting green: A large putting green is available to players (approaches prohibited).
The Deauville Saint-Gatien golf course extends over a magnificent area of 100 hectares. Located in the heart of the Pays d'Auge, between sea and forest, the Saint-Gatien golf course offers three 9-hole courses of great visual variety with a panorama alternating between forest and the Seine estuary.
La Vallée - Parcours Blanc - constitutes the “Signature” course, inaugurated on the 1st in 1988.
La Bergerie - Parcours Rouge - culminates in the Plateau, more flat and woody, technical.
La Chapelle - Yellow Course - the latest of the 3, is an excellent test, shorter but very technical holes, the game strategy wins.
The Green Course - compact 5 holes - is ideal for golf school juniors, as well as novice adults. It allows immediate practice of golf lessons.
Training and teaching structures:
Practice of 4,5 hectares (300m x 150m: the largest in Normandy): 12 indoor stations / 40 outdoor-grass stations (+ 50 optional outdoor stations)
6500m² wedging area / approach area
450m² putting green
Compact course (5 holes)
Cherbourg golf course, one of the most beautiful 9 holes in Normandy according to the Regional Tourism Committee, is located in the village of La Verrerie à La Glacerie and overlooks the city and the harbor of Cherbourg en Cotentin.
Practically flat, it has very narrow fairways bordered by woods and has small greens that are fairly well defended.
The trees, present throughout the course, and the fairway bunkers (holes 2, 6 and 8) await the balls whose trajectory is not perfectly controlled.
You will taste the aesthetics of the environment made of beds of wild rhododendrons, particularly in bloom in spring, and many species of trees (birch, larch, firs, maritime pines, oaks, ash trees, etc.). It is not impossible, if you are early enough, to see some deer or deer crossing the fairways.
Opened in 1919, the Coutainville golf course is the fruit of the work of architect Jacques Saint Cricq. The particularity of this 18-hole course is that it is located by the sea, in the heart of the seaside resort of Coutainville. The course perfectly combines links and bocage, technicality and diversity, and thus makes the happiness of experienced players and beginners. For a friendly practice, the Coutainville golf course also offers a very welcoming clubhouse. Also, it has many services such as its practice, its putting green… as well as a very well equipped pro-shop.
In the heart of the bocage, a stone's throw from Suisse Normande, located 45 minutes from Caen, and 1 hour from Alençon, the Flers le Houlme golf course extends over twenty hectares in a bucolic, pleasant setting between green meadows, numerous plantations and water features.
Come and discover a 9-hole course, a par 34 course for a total length of 2511m, its rolling greens and the many water obstacles require good precision and a quality approach game.
Managed since 2000 by the Pays de Flers urban community, it offers the advantage of very affordable prices.
The Domaine du Golf de Clécy is located in Calvados in Normandy, 35 kilometers south of Caen. It deploys its greens and fairways in the heart of a richly wooded, hilly region, with panoramic views of "La Suisse Normande". Also, it is recognized by many golfers as one of the most beautiful natural golf courses in France.
Designed by the architect Bill Backer, the 6 km of fairways of the Golf de Clécy will put you in complete harmony with nature.
Technical the 18-hole course will offer you 2 options at hole n ° 9
Or to do the Cabri course 5861 m. Par 72 which does not descend to the Club-House and thus avoids the drop.
Or to do the Chamois course 6108 m. Par 73 which returns to the Club-House at hole n ° 9 to allow you to eat in the middle of your course.
Close to Barneville-Carteret and Portbail, the Côte des Isles golf course is now an 18-hole course spread over the Dunes and Les Mielles. Two wonderful 9 holes combining to offer an exceptional course. It is completed by a Pitch & Putt course consisting of 6 compact holes and a specific training area.
The Golf de la Côte des Isles is an 18-hole course with the advantage of successively discovering the Mielles course and the Dunes course.
Les Dunes: a windswept links offering views of Cap de Carteret and JERSEY. A Links-type lunar course in the purest tradition of Scottish golf courses.
Les Mielles: a path between hedges and beautiful expanses of water, offering views of the villages of Saint Jean and Saint Georges de la Rivière.
The Pitch & Putt course
Come and discover a new activity, both sporty and fun, which allows children and beginners to gain confidence over short distances and good players to sharpen their precision shots. Pitch and Putt is a shorter distance game format, which is played with a maximum of 3 clubs including the putter. This discipline favors precision rather than power which allows everyone to compete on an equal footing in the same friendly game or in competition. To access the Pitch and Putt course, you must be in possession of a green fee, which allows you to play up to 18 holes (3 times 6 holes).
Rouen-La-Forêt-Verte golf course is located in Bosc-Guérard-Saint-Adrien just 20 minutes from the famous cathedral immortalized by Claude Monet. Considered a "city golf course" because of its proximity to the city center, the UGOLF Rouen-La-Forêt is 40 minutes from the Alabaster coast and ten minutes from the Calais-Caen motorway.
Rouen-La-Forêt-Verte golf course
The Rouen-La-Forêt-Verte golf course stretches over a length of almost 6 meters. It deploys its greens and fairways on a slightly hilly terrain in a green setting and has 000 water obstacles and 4 bunkers. Also, with several starting areas, it will suit both experienced players and beginners.
History
The 18-hole course was created in 1989 by architect Thierry Huau. Founder of the Giverny-Paris-Marrakech agency. This environment enthusiast has also carried out numerous national and international projects.
Compact Pitch and Putt course
Surrounded by fruit trees, the compact 9-hole golf course of Rouen-la-Forêt-Verte is an excellent educational tool, ideal for training and discovering golf.
Located in the middle of the Normandy countryside and partly dominated by Beuzeval castle, the Houlgate golf course offers unique panoramas of the region. Created in 1981 in a landscaped park and located in Gonneville-sur-Mer, between Cabourg and Deauville and 30 minutes from Caen, the variety of holes is a real pleasure.
After the first three holes traced around a body of water, the promenade takes golfers along slightly undulating fairways and bordered by bushy hedges, then plunges into the Norman bocage and ends up climbing to the top of a hill which offers an exceptional panorama!
The variety of holes is a real pleasure. They each have their own identity even if, with a slope of 130 and several sloping fairways, the playing conditions require a solid technical background. An excellent iron game and a sharp strategy will be necessary to hope to score.
Perfectly maintained, this course is ideally integrated into a rich and green nature.
In the heart of its green hills, between Le Mans and Alençon, the Perche is home to a jewel that the ancients called “Belisma”. Later becoming Bellême and much later still, a golf course, the place has lost none of the beauty that earned it its name.
Located in the heart of the Perche regional natural park, two hours from Paris, on an exceptional site and next to one of the most beautiful national forests in France, the Domaine du Golf de Bellême offers you an 18-hole course as well as a hotel 3-star restaurant: the Normandy Country Club.
On the technical side, Eric Vialatel, the architect, has perfectly integrated into this grandiose site a PAR 72 of 5942 m which has a slope of 135 white landmarks. It is a varied course with some holes to be played blind and four holes with water obstacles (3, 8, 10 and 16). This course, announced without "extreme difficulty", however, has the particularity of being hilly, while ascending and descending ... This is why our packages with cart are greatly appreciated ... A few water hazards will bring variety, especially at hole n ° 16. This 3-meter par 150 has no fairway! You have to skilfully cross the water obstacle to reach the green. In addition, you can admire the superb panoramas on the Perche, especially at 6.
Halfway between Dieppe, Etretat and Rouen, the Normandy Côte-d'Albâtre Golf Course consists of several infrastructures and thus offers a complete range of games. The flagship of this set is of course the 18-hole course.
The Vallons
Par 72, 6140 meters
Built by the French architect Alain Prat recognized for his straightforward tracks, quite playable by neophytes, but which also know how to be relevant for more experienced players from the back-tees (slope 133).
Slightly hilly and wooded, the course stretches through the heart of the Pays de Caux. If it is a real parkland, it sometimes recalls the spirit of links, with its tall yellow grass which marks out certain holes.
Special mentions for hole n ° 3, where the architect seems to have used all his know-how, or even holes n ° 13 and n ° 18, which sometimes give the impression, by their atmosphere, of being far from Normandy, on Scottish soil. With natural elements like wind and rain, this course will get tough and may give you some cold sweats.
Compact Golf
This 9-hole course will suit all types of players, beginners and experienced. It will be the playground for the Golf School and the Academy, in order to prepare and organize the various courses and training camps. All the Green Card level tests will take place on this school course.
Compact of 1 m, Par 630
Pitch & Putt of 1m, Par 062
Between Rouen and Le Havre, just 1h30 from Paris, the Golf de Jumièges deploys its greens and fairways in the Regional Natural Park of the Loops of the Norman Seine. Created by the architect JP Fourès in 1991, at the instigation of the region and the departments of Eure and Seine Maritime, the Golf de Jumièges is the first public golf course in Upper Normandy.
The 18-hole course, Par 72, 6003 meters
The Jumiège golf course covers more than 60 hectares. Its fairways are tightly carved into the woods and some are slightly hilly. This requires a straight driver or the use of an iron at the start. It evolves in a majestic environment, in a loop of the Seine, on the fruit and orchard route and a stone's throw from the superb towers of the abbey. Made of forest areas on a dozen holes and plains, you never get bored. Also, it is embellished with some strategically placed obstacles (bunkers and lakes).
The compact Pitch and Putt course
The compact 9-hole course is Pitch and Putt approved for competitions. It consists only of Par 3 and will delight good players as well as beginners.
Technical by the smallness of these greens and varied both in terms of the layout and in terms of the distance of the holes.
This course is an excellent working tool for the little game.
Training areas
A practice of 50 stations, including 20 covered.
An approach area with bunker.
A 500 m2 putting green.
Halfway between Paris and Deauville, the Golf d'Evreux offers a pleasant and varied course that follows the undulations of the land and fits naturally into the landscape of a 65 hectare site.
The course
The greens are fast and keep the line. The diversity of departures allows players of all levels to understand the course. A few sloping holes will allow the best to showcase themselves and beginners to progress. This 18-hole course has a few holes that have made it famous, such as the par 3 which passes over an old railway line at n ° 13 or the dog-leg near the water at n ° 18.
Training areas
The Golf d'Evreux also has several training areas for novices as well as experienced players in order to improve your technique and help you progress.
a practice of 30 stations including 10 covered
a practice on grass
a putting green
a chippping area with bunker
Opened in 1989, the Golf Barrière de Saint-Julien is located in the heart of the Pays d'Auge (a natural and traditional region of Normandy) a few minutes from downtown Pont-l'Évêque. The architects Alain Pratt and Bill Baker designed two golf courses in a totally British spirit. Le Vallon, championship ground, meandered by numerous water features and Le Bocage for less experienced players.
The valley
18 holes - 6035 m - PAR 72
Overlooking the entire Touques valley, this course is relatively easy on the outward journey and offers many possibilities for birdies for the more experienced. And for the more adventurous among you, with holes n ° 12, 13, 14 and 18, the return promises you great thrills!
The Bocage
9 holes - 2275 m - PAR 33
With very few roughs, the 9-hole course is ideal for beginners, mid-level players as well as golfers who want to practice.
Training zones
Driving range: 20 covered posts and 30 open posts
Putting green
Training bunker
Green approaches
In a magnificent classified site, the Garcelles-Secqueville golf course offers pleasant courses with 27 diversified holes (18 holes par 70: the Clos Neuf and the Bois / 9 holes par 30 the Parc / 6 holes par 20 the Rustique). The Greens were drawn with many platters. The wide fairways on the outward end in a pretty wood on the return. The Park is a 9 hole links dry all winter long.
NEW CLOSED & WOOD
18 par 70 holes, 5716 meters long
Inaugurated in 1989 near a magnificent castle 6 kilometers from Caen, the Garcelles-Secqueville golf course is a course full of character. Le Clos Neuf and Le Bois form an 18-hole par 70, 5716 meters long, with a very varied and technical layout, a real challenge accessible to all golfers.
THE PARC
9 holes par 30, 1 meters long
Inaugurated in 2010, the 9 Holes du Parc course allows players of all levels to perfect their games in 1h20 thanks to 3 par 4 and 6 par 3 of various lengths (from 90 to 160 m) allowing the calibration of the distance of their game. of iron. Classify yourself every day at the 9 Holes Park, departure in the morning at 10 a.m. or in the afternoon at 14 p.m.
Imagine a 13 hectare site where an ideal balance has been found between a human leisure activity. The Charentonne golf course thus combines sport and nature. Less than 5 minutes (on foot) from the city center of Bernay, on a Natura 2000 classified site, dare to golf in complete freedom!
Located in the heart of the Charentonne valley, on old bathing meadows accessible from the city center and the Greenway, this site hosts a sporting activity while respecting the preservation of this wild space. Even more, the natural and landscape heritage is valued here. Coming back to the fundamental values of golf as practiced by the Scottish Shepherds, try your hand at the Agrion course (9 holes) after working your swing on the driving range.
And all this, in coherence with a reasoned management of the site, since this golf course is "ecological": restricted use of water, no chemicals, site maintained and shorn by Landes ponies, pottocks of the Pyrenees, and Scottish sheep. ...
Not to be missed under any circumstances, whether you are a beginner or an experienced golfer.
The official opening of the golf course is from March 1 to October 31
The Admiralty Golf is located 5 minutes from Deauville and the Admiralty Hotel. On a magical 100 hectare site dotted with ponds and vast greens, Bill Baker, the architect, has created a real championship course accessible to all.
The Arts Route
The Parcours des Arts is a veritable open-air museum, dotted with contemporary monumental sculptures.
A real championship course.
Seven ponds and atypical bunkers.
Natural and protected space where swans and migrating birds have found refuge. A place conducive to the expression of all talents.
The Ponds Course
The Etangs course is a 9-hole course ideal for learning or training.
More compact course, however, it has as many difficulties as a championship course.
Winding between the ponds, it requires rigor and precision to position itself well on the greens.
Change of scenery guaranteed ...
The Star Trail
At night, the Star Course lights up to provide never-before-felt sensations.
This possibility of playing golf at night is unique in Europe.
With friends, for moments of conviviality or in friendly competition. Playing at night is a new experience.
The visual and sound atmosphere is totally different… the sounds carry a long way… It's another world, that of Admiralty Golf.
The Admiralty Golf also has 2 putting greens, a covered driving range with 42 stations, a grass practice, a pro-shop, a restaurant and a reception area.
The Golf de Cabourg le Home-Varaville is located in Varaville, a charming French town, in the Calvados department in the Normandy region, about 5km from the center of Cabourg
,The 18-hole course of the Cabourg le Home-Varaville golf course has all the charm and magic of a century-old golf course combined with the architecture of more modern courses. It offers an original mix between sea and marsh with holes ranging from 91 to 510m. Thus, its greens and fairways extend over a distance of 5256 meters to offer a Par 69 of great beauty. Its main difficulty, like many seaside courses, will come from the orientation and the strength of the wind.
The sea side with British influence
You will find on the “sea” part a succession of holes with the accents of the British links. The main difficulty will lie in the precision and trajectory of your shots. In effect. the sea part of the Golf de Cabourg le Home-Varaville will ask you to handle the ball well, to control its height and trajectory (Draw, Fade, low ball ...) All in an ideal setting a few steps from the Home-Varaville beach and whose highlight is hole number 16 where you will have a breathtaking view of the beaches bordering the English Channel from Le Havre to Ouistreham.
The Marais area - The charm of the Normandy countryside
For the "marsh" part of the Golf de Cabourg le Home-Varaville, a change of scenery and strategy. Here the course is longer, more modern and consists of a few parts of water on holes going up to more than 500m like hole number 5. This part will offer you a very nice walk in the marshes and the Norman bocage.
Located in the town of Neubourg in Eure (27) in Normandy, the Golf du Champ de Bataille welcomes you to its championship course drawn in the woods of the historic Domaine du Champ de Bataille.
History
Created in 1990, it is the work of the American architect Robin Nelson and the French landscape designer Thierry Huau who have managed to preserve the natural beauty of the site.
Note that the course has been modified and that the two new holes (12 and 13) were designed by the French architect Manuel Rossi.
The course
Ranked among the 25 most beautiful golf courses in France, the course penetrates the woods of the Château estate, follows natural valleys and crosses water features. On 60 hectares, its layout respects the hundred-year-old trees, the undergrowth full of ferns and the immense beds of rhododendrons.
Located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Cotentin and Bessin Marshes on a protected site of 60 hectares, come and discover a 9-hole course and its 2800m (par 36) approved by the French Golf Federation.
Both beginners and experienced players can express themselves according to the strength of the wind and the position of the flags. Nature lovers will appreciate this course. Here, conviviality is king. Everything is done to allow club members and day visitors to feel at home.
Its slightly uneven course, decorated with apple trees, oaks more than one hundred years old, its extensive Greens, its ponds, make it a course suitable for all levels of play. You can come and practice golf all year round on the Golf Center Manche training facilities (practice, chipping green, putting green). Accessible to everyone, 7 days a week.
Mannevillette golf course is a charming pitch & putt in Normandy. A small par 54 course of 1194 meters. Open since 1997 in the town of Mannevillette, 76 - Seine-Maritime. It also has a driving range with 8 covered stations to work on your swing calmly.
Golf Evasion Mannevillette is an association affiliated to the French Golf Federation (FFG) and approved Youth and Sport. The establishment invites golfers of all levels to swing in one of the 3 golf courses available: Pitch and Putt de Mannevillette, la Frenaye and Golf de Montivilliers.
Golf Evasion Mannevillette regularly organizes official competitions on the FFG approved Pitch and Putt course.
The three syllables of the Nor-man-die conjure up a string of images: cider, apple trees in blossom, dairy cows, cheeses with strong scents and plump meadows. On this land that stretches from the cliffs of Dieppe at Mont Saint-Michel, bathed in the temperate waters of the Channel, the grass is dense and very green. On these pastures, the golf courses have naturally found refuge. Here, there is no need for fertilizer or fertilizer, the rains brought by the westerly winds make the grass grow like quackgrass. It is on the coast that golf has taken its anchor. Along the immense sandy beaches of Granville or perched suspended on the high white limestone cliffs of Dieppe andEtretat. Thus, the birth of Norman golf followed the fashions of seaside resorts, vacation spots for wealthy Parisian vacationers. Dieppe, Etretat, Cabourg, Granville and Deauville that the inhabitants of this small town of Calvados consider it to be the twenty-first arrondissement of Paris.
Today, Dieppe whose golf course extends its fairways on the road to Pourville used to be less frequented. The greats of this world have deserted it and the big hotels along the seafront no longer welcome personalities from the political, sporting and cultural world. Dieppe lost its status as a chic resort in the 40s. It has never regained its former glory. In its phase of reconquest, the Dieppe golf course took advantage of its centenary celebrations to display its new logo: a vessel with three masts, two crossed irons and the dates 1897- 1997. This golf course in Dieppe has indeed joined the very exclusive club of centennial clubs which has only eight members in France.
Unlike the dean, the Pau golf course, in the Atlantic Pyrenees, which has retained a good part of its layout from the last century, golfers in Bermuda shorts today no longer tread the same fairways as their elders in white crinoline and large hats adorned with ribbons. The first nine holes, designed by the English architect Willie Park, ran along the cliff, on the right of the road leading to the village of Pourville. Over XNUMX meters above the beach, the course was the most spectacular in France at the time.
The first French golf magazine, Tennis et Golf, founded by Marcel Daninos in 1914, recounts in its August 1922 edition how spectacular the game was: “ the Dieppe links ran through narrow gorges in the middle of gorse fields and offered a series of admirable views over the entire coast. Picturesque as they were, these holes were not without danger. It takes brazen nerves and a certain sense of mountaineering to drive up the steep hills with impunity. The void exerted on the balls a most unfortunate seduction and an incredible number of them disappeared in the direction of the strike under the eyes of their frightened owners… ”
From this fin de siècle golf course, only a few yellowed postcards remain. With the erosion of the cliffs, nearly fifty centimeters per year, the holes slipped towards the shore. Over time. This is the reason why, Dieppe golf course whose extension had been entrusted in 1912 to the great English architect, Tom Simpson, genius designer of Whipped Cream, Chiberta ou Fontainebleau, was deployed on the other side of the road on a vast plateau from which, from hole n ° 9, emerges the steeple of the church of Varengeville.
The cliffs of Etretat also have their history. This seaside resort is nestled between high white cliffs. On his right stands the monument to the aviators Nungesser and Coli; on its left, the Aiguille Creuse, adventure ground for the gentleman-burglar, Arsène Lupine, creation of the Norman writer, Maurice Leblanc.
The golf course of Étretat looms on these white cliffs that the sea tirelessly hollows out with each tide to form natural arches Here, we drive up to seagulls. More than a hundred meters above the waves. If the layout of this 18-hole course is not exceptional, its location makes it one of the most spectacular in Europe. And its hole n ° 10, a double dogleg in par 5 while climbing, attracts even Sunday walkers. With their hands entangled in the windbreaks, they can see golfers struggling to pull their carts or to send out big, straight shots.
Like all seaside golf courses, Etretat must be played with the wind. On this bare plateau, dotted with meager groves of trees, the wind blows unrestrained and undoes the unsteady swings. On the greens, the flags are small and their metal poles twist under the gusts. When the elements are unleashed, the Etretat golf course becomes exciting and very inventive. In this game, the British who land in Dieppe are very strong. On the limestone cliffs of Sussex, on the other side of the English Channel, they live the game every day under the assaults of Aeolus. It is characteristic of seaside golf. The view is often breathtaking, the air is pure and invigorating, but playing golf can be a real torture.
On the links of Granville Dunes course, in the department of Manche, the sea is invisible. But she sniffs herself, the spray smells strong, she hears, she listens. The Granville links, one of the purest of France is like a beach at low tide. Fairways burnt as far as the eye can see, undulations of the land revealing a few sand traps and as many circles of green grass as there are greens. When the wind sets in, the fine grasses of the roughs wave in waves and play with the light. Like a beach at high tide.
The Manche department is the land of links and nine holes. With the exception of the twenty-seven hole complex of Granville golf course and the eighteen-hole extension of Agon-Coutainville, the Cotentin golf courses are all nine holes. Natural, rustic, authentic. Little gems for those who love unfussy golf, who love these Scottish-style golf courses. Like a Brehal, south of Coutances and its nine unpretentious holes from which, after each strong gust of wind, you have to chase away the sand which has transformed the starting tees into a real bunker. Of a crazy charm. Far from the more sophisticated courses of the Calvados nearby, a department whose concentration of eighteen holes is similar to that of the departments of the Côte d'Azur.
Between Caen and Deauville, there are seven eighteen holes over forty kilometers. Four are located less than ten kilometers around Deauville: New Deauville Golf, Saint-Julien golf course, Saint-Gatien golf course and Admiralty golf course. A real resort in the land of Livarot and Calvados. Between Pays d'Auge and Côte Fleurie. Where golfers compete with thoroughbreds for the lush meadows at the foot of manors and castles.
On the New Golf de Deauville or Golf Barriere Deauville, the section of wall which stands at the start of 13 testifies to the historical past of the lands of Mont Canisy from where the view embraces Deauville and in the distance the town of Honfleur. " When you can't see Honfleur, it's raining, when you see Honfleur, it's going to rain soon“, Says a local saying. This wall, covered with weeds, is the ghost of the libertine nights which agitated the castle of the Marquis de Lassay in the XNUMXth century. Deauville has since drawn a line on this story.
Because according to the official brochures, the life of this seaside resort did not begin until the XNUMXth century with the Duke of Morny, half-brother of Napoleon Ill and grandson of Tayllerand. Continues at the beginning of the XNUMXth century with Eugène Cornuché, builder of the Casino and Normandy hotels and Royal, and is completed with François André who, according to the legend, would have drawn with the tip of his umbrella in the snow the outlines of the Hôtel du Golf. Whose windows in the large living room were always opening and opening onto the fairways of Tom Simpson's course and in the distance onto the bay of Deauville.
Le Golf Barriere Deauville has the charm of its old courses. Not too long, not too difficult and planted many species of trees: oaks, elms, ash trees and the inevitable apple trees, symbols of the Pays d'Auge. On the boards of Deauville beach, we meet the jet-set and the emerging fortunes. In golf, some old members cultivate nostalgia for the flashes of Bobby Jones, Jimmy Demaret or Robert de Vicenzo.
In Cabourg, it is the ghost of Marcel Proust who haunts the great hotel. The great French writer never got his gaiters dirty Cabourg-le Home golf course, in Varaville. Too bad because a careful description in one of the volumes "D" In search of lost time "would have made it possible to understand this dune course with eleven par 3! Today, there are only six left. His most famous, the Camembert, a round green placed on a hill, was devoured by the excavators. And Cabourg-le-Home has become an almost ordinary golf course. Its par 3 of 16 fortunately saves appearances with, at the top of the dune, its golfing green seems to float in the westerly wind.
Throughout its history, Normandy has been a land of conquest and reconquest. The most beautiful testimony of these great feats of arms can be found at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum. Over more than a hundred meters, a tapestry, a veritable embroidered comic strip, recounts the epic of William the Conqueror, crushing the English at the battle of Hastings in 1066. A few kilometers from the capital of Bessin, the museums in full The air and the military cemeteries recall the heroic landing of the Allied troops on June 6, 1944.
Le Omaha Beach golf course, code name of a beach of the greatest military operation of all time, also paid homage to the liberators by attributing to each hole of the course of the Sea and the Bocage, the name of one of the heroes of June 6 . Commemorative plaques with the names of Einsenhower, De Gaulle, Leclerc…. unveiled to the shrill sounds of the bagpipes of Bill Millin, the Scottish infantryman who was the first to cross at dawn on June 6, 1944 the iron bridge of Ouistreham under fire from German machine guns. From the green of hole 6 of the course of the Sea, a formidable par 4 when the wind blows from the sea, we can see the remains of the artificial port of Arromanches where hundreds of warships docked during the month of June 1944.
A thousand years ago, the Battlefield Golf, in Neubourg in the Eure, was the ground of confrontation of two powerful armies which killed each other for the possession of the Duchy of Normandy. On this historic site, gorged with the blood of these soldiers from another age, rose in 1650 the castle of the Battlefield. In this area where formal gardens sit alongside forests of hundred-year-old trees, a golf course has been drawn up, the eighteen holes of which cross a valley of rhododendrons, jump over waterfalls and ponds, avoid a sand quarry and play with the gardens perfectly. ordered which lead back to the clubhouse fitted out in the old stables of the castle. There, where, in the past, thoroughbreds came to rest after long rides through the Normandy countryside. On these tender meadows which have become a paradise for golfers and greenkeepers.