With Ireland’s Padraig
Harrington in the skipper’s
seat for the next Ryder Cup
at Whistling Straits in 2020,
Europeans can only hope the
great Irish golfing hero’s team
can emulate last year’s victory
at Le Golf National de Paris. this honour as justification to become more ‘exclusive’, it’s
It was a blistering few days of combat on a course that deserves its place among the revered classic layouts.
wowed spectators and players alike.
remarkably easy to arrange play there for your own teams
of golfing greats*.
(*That’s you and your friends)
Located just outside Paris in Guyancourt, it truly is a
golf resort that has plenty to offer - with three courses
available to play: The Albatros, the Aigle and the nine-hole
Oiselet. The practice facilities on site are exceptional too.
The by-now world famous Albatros course that hosted
the Ryder Cup was created in 1987 by Robert Von Hagge,
Hubert Chesneau and Pierre Thevenin. It’s fair to say it’s
not that old in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly
This challenging course, which is also home to the French
But now the dust has finally settled on that sparkling Open, was truly thrust into the world’s spotlight during
joust and the history books have been updated, why not that stunning European victory inspired by the ‘Moliwood’
consider playing the course yourself? pairing of Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood (Paris
was always associated with romance, so why not this
The tournament certainly rubberstamped Le Golf ‘bromance’?), and it would be fair to say this is the most
National’s credentials among the pantheon of the great popular course in France.
courses of the world but, unlike some courses that see
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