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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 76 Destination Golf .TRAVEL