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GOLFING in Biarritz and the Basque Country


BIARRITZ and environs

 

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BIARRITZ GOLF PASS
allows you to play 5 different rounds at :

* Makila Bassussary Golf Course

* Seignosse Golf Club – Seignosse Anglet
* Golf d’Arcangues - near Biarritz
* Moliets Golf Club - Moliets
* Golf de Biarritz "Le Phare"
* The Ilbarritz Golf - Biarritz

 

Other golf courses in the BIARRITZ Area

* Chantaco Golf Course - St Jean de Luz
* Chiberta Golf Course – Anglet
* Hossegor Golf Club – Hossegor
* Pau Golf Course

GOLF in the BIARRITZ area

golfing on the Basque Coast

The Aquitaine Coast, includes the Côte d'Argent & the Côte Basque. This is the length of Atlantic Ocean coastline from the point where the sea and the River Gironde meet at Verdon-sur-Mer, north of Bordeaux down to the Pyrénées Mountains at Hendaye in the Basque Country on the Spanish border.


The Basque Country is comprised of 3 provinces, each rich in history both architectural and natural:
Le Labourd : the coastline from Biarritz to Hendaye,
La Basse Navarre : Saint Jean Pied de Port, Irouleguy (and its vines), Saint Etienne de Baigorry…
La Soule: the mountainous country of the interior


Pau, the elegant city of Henri IV in the foothills of the mighty Pyrenees Mountains is surrounded by vineyards (Jurançon, Madiran). It is the starting point for exploring the Pyrenean chain, & the Basque Country. It is the administrative capital of the Pyrénées Atlantiques Department

GOLF COURSES

BIARRITZ GOLF PASS

 

GOLF PASS Biarritz, allows you to play 5 different rounds. You can play up to twice on the same course: Bayonne – Seignosse - Moliets - Arcangues - Biarritz - Ilbarritz

Come and discover 6 of the most beautiful golf courses in the Basque coast an south of Landes coast.

 

Makila Bassussary Golf Course - Bayonne
Holes 18 Par 72
Length 6161 metres
Architect: Rocky Roquemore
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire

 

Lined with beautiful age-old oaks, this huge site gave the designer the possibility to lay out wide fairways and keep the holes well apart. Rocky Roquemore has produced an American style layout set beneath the Pyrenees. Makila is a recent creation 5 miles southeast of Biarritz, with a variety of holes and hazards ranging from mountainside holes to lower-level holes edged with water hazards.


This is a pretty hilly golf course (3 holes in particular) but it would have been difficult to do otherwise in this superb region. If you are not in top shape, take a buggy as this course plays 6200 metres from the back tees and so is a good test for the better player, but the middle tees are perfect for the mid-handicapper.
The hazards are visible and the strategy pretty obvious as difficulties are evenly spread around the course.


Maintenance is good although the terrain often suffers in wet weather. A drainage programme should solve that one.


Seignosse Golf Club - Seignosse
Holes:18 Par 72
Architect : Robert Van Hagge
Length: 5774 m
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Hotel, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire

 

Ranked amongst the best 100 courses in the World !


A jewel among the Basque country’s outstanding golf courses, the Seignosse course, designed in 1989, has been carved out of the magnificent forest clad landscape of South West France, the immense pines and cork-oaks creating a cathedral like atmosphere as you advance down the fairways.
Located in one of France’s very best golfing regions, this is a course you’re unlikely to forget.


The layout of the course is a masterpiece, as is acknowledge by some of the world’s top golfers. With its rolling fairways and immaculate greens, Seignosse is a challenge for any golfer but a pleasure to play whatever your ability.

 


Moliets Golf Club - Moliets
Holes 27 – 18 and 9 hole course Par 70 (18 hole) 31 (9 hole)
Architect: Robert Trent Jones Snr.
Length 5824 metres (18 hole) 1854 metres (9 hole)
Facilities Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire

 

It will take about an hour to get there from Biarritz, it is about 50 Kilometres north along the Landes coast. The Golf de Moliets is a remarkable golf course laid out in the pine forests of Les Landes (for 13 holes) and along the coast (5 holes). A typical Robert Trent Jones design, where the technical and strategic challenges reflect an in-depth knowledge of golf.


While the more proficient golfer will find this a tough challenge, playing from the forward tees is funnily enough, often more conducive to error. The famous jagged bunkers are a remarkable form of defense for the greens, three of which are virtually blind, and the putting surfaces are neatly but never excessively contoured..


It’s a feast for the eyes which is consistently highly rated in Europe’s Top 50 courses and the World’s Top 100 courses. Moliets boasts a very hospitable clubhouse.


Golf d’Arcangues - near Biarritz
Holes 18 Par 71
Architect: Ronald Fream
Length 5758 metres
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire Closed Mondays in winter

 

This course is just to the South of Biarritz laid out on many acres of Oak trees and meadows that wind around the Chateau d’Arcangues and it’s village. This setting at Arcangues Golf Course provides beautiful views over the Basque countryside and the Pyrenees, and there is a nice balance between woodland holes and holes through open country.


As it is often the case with Ronald Fream's courses, the bunkers and greens have been given a lot of careful thought, which is only logical for a course as short as this.


Arcangues is a very technical course that needs a little reconnaissance work before hoping to card a good score. Also it features very differently from the other courses in the region.


Golf de Biarritz "Le Phare" - Biarritz
Holes 18 Par 69
Length 5402 m
Architect : Willy Dunn
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire Closed Tuesdays – except school holidays

 

It looks like being an easy course, which does not require any important physical efforts, but it’s really not. Its difficulty lies in his technicality and it is not that easy to « score ». 70 bunkers are there to remind us, if necessary is, that golf is, above all, a reflection and shrewdness affair.


The greens are fast, the rough very cautious.


The situation of the course, in town-centre - originaly due to its old age - offers the great privilege to be near all necessary services : hotels, beaches, trades. Nearness the ocean, it has the advantage, all along the year, of a temperate climate : mild in winter, rarely too hot in summer.

 

The Ilbarritz Golf - Biarritz
Holes 9 Par 32
Architect: Pierre Thevenin
Length 2176 metres


The training centre was designed and constructed in 198 , to revolutionize the method of golf training. The course surrounding the centre is a typical half of any 18 hole course. The site was chosen for its beautiful location, on top of the cliffs with undulating hills and water obstacles, to host a long awaited first European golf training centre, built in the same style as the existing centres in Japan and the USA. It is a 14 hectares (35 acres) complex, which permits amateur or professional players to train or to perfect techniques.


The centre offers golf tuition of the highest standards, for groups or individual lessons, whether for initiation, improvement or just general information as to what choice of club for distance, with professional teachers from France, USA and Spain and excellent equipment.


The practice provides 14 stands in a circular formation, with 2 putting greens, 1 pitching green, 2 chipping greens, 10 bunkers (with various depths & distances).

 

OTHER GOLF COURSES

 

Chantaco Golf Course - St Jean de Luz
Holes 18 Par 70
Architect: Harry Coll
Length 5833 metres
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms,Practice facilities, Club hire, Electric buggy and trolley hire

Designed by Harry Colt in 1928, this is a tight hilly course always named in France’s Top 50 courses. There are two distinct 9’s, the first carved into the wooded hills and the second dominated by water. Chantaco is one of the most celebrated courses on the Basque coast thanks to its delightful charm, atmosphere and sporting tradition.


Chantaco is just to the South of Biarritz close to the very chic St. Jean de Luz. It has a very “British feel” in a classic sense. The course meanders through woodland for the first nine holes with water coming into play on the back nine. It gives the impression of a quiet day's golfing, but even the most ambitious golfer will find it more than a handful..


Chantaco has hosted the French Open along with other International events and was founded by the Lacoste Family.


Chiberta Golf Course - Anglet
Holes 27 – 18 and 9 hole course
Par 70 (18 hole), 29 (9 hole)
Architect: Tom Simpson
Length 5647 metres (18 Hole) 1425 metres (9 hole)
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Hotel, Pro Shop, Changing Rooms, Practice Facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire

 

Chiberta is one of the great French examples of a links course, designed by the legendary Tom Simpson. This course is one of the most rewarding courses in France, and provides a wonderful day of golf to all who play on it. The original design has been preserved, although the wilder features have been smoothed away by automatic sprinklers and a number of 'improvements'.


With fewer difficulties the course is more accessible to all golfers, especially in fine weather.
The greens are excellent, and the hazards are clearly visible. Strategies are pretty obvious, and the absence of any real relief with the comfort of sandy soil makes for a pleasant walk.


However once the wind gets up, Chiberta becomes a test where ball-control is essential, and where players with a tight short game will come into their own. Maintenance has been much improved, and this course is highly recommended by all who play on it.


Hossegor Golf Club - Hossegor
Holes 18 Par 72
Architect : Tim Morrisson
Length 5938 m
Facilities: Restaurant / Bar, Pro shop, Changing rooms, Practice facilities, Electric buggy and trolley hire


Hossegor is one of the great classics on the Basque coast with a layout reminiscent of traditional British inland courses where the hazards are primarily trees and bunkers.

 

The Pau golf course
A quirk of history meant that some of Wellington's officers, stationed in Pau after the Battle of Orthez in 1814, had the time and inclination (they were Scots) to look around for somewhere to practice their golf. They found the perfect spot just on the outskirts of Pau ... and 20 years later they returned, as simple tourists, to build and found continental Europe's oldest golf course in 1856.

 

Artiguelouve golf course
18 holes par 70, 5839 m
Architect : Jean GARAIALDE in 1986


A flat easy-walking layout measuring 5839 metres, characterised by numerous dog-legs, water hazards and large greens, and divided into two distinct parts. The first 6 holes, cut through the woods of La Saligue, are tight and demand accuracy. The following 12 holes occupy La Plaine, where wide fairways are an invitation to open your shoulders and unleash your biggest drives.
Splendid views of the Pyrenees and some palm-lined fairways!

 

 

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