Designed in 1992 by Alain Prat (architect also of Saint-Julien in Calvados or Gujan-Mestras in Gironde), the golf course offers exceptional views of the Breton coast. A trip to the moors before a magical passage, between the green of 9 and that of 12, where the sea invites itself to the game. The departures of the 10th and 11th are breathtaking but also a sacred pair of… Round.

The 11, a par 5, is without a doubt one of the prettiest holes in Europe. At the top of a mound, you drag your ball a few hundred meters below while the sea keeps you company on the port side. The panorama is captivating and the wind, a slap that quickly turns into a caress. Magical ! We almost want to afford a few mulligans to be able to drive several times on this hole.

A course playable all year round

“People are often pleasantly surprised by the landscape,” confirms Laurent Jouanno, the director of golf. Every year we improve the course, which can be played in any season. Pléneuf-Val-André regularly hosts a Challenge Tour event (from August 30 to September 2), the course record (61) being the property of the Englishman Philip Archer since 2011. The British, like the Germans and the Belgians, moreover, represent almost a third of the green fees sold each year.

For the small and especially the big story, the first president of the golf de Pléneuf, Paul Briat, was a merchant navy officer hired for Free France during the Second World War and who learned to hit the little white ball by attending the English. He was one of the 177 members of the Kieffer commando and one of the rare French who participated in the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Only 24 men from the commando ended the Normandy campaign without having been injured or killed ...

Frank Crudo

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