Cabourg Le Home Golf Club France

Cabourg Le Home Golf Course Normandy

5258 metres, Par 68

In Marcel Proust's well known works ' Remembrance of Things Past', he recalls his convalescence in a large hotel in a place that he called 'Balbec', which we recognise as Cabourg.

Of the three existing golf links that have survived since the beginning of the last century on the Flowery Coast, it is the only one that has remained in the same place and has preserved its clubhouse on the edge of the wood and the holes on the seashore dune. The image given by its founders in 1907.

A new clubhouse was built, and 18 holes (par 68) were opened in 1958. Eventually in 1987, Olivier Brizon intervened by lengthening the course from 4,110 meters to 5,258 meters and reduced the number of par 3s from eleven to eight.

The Cabourg golf course is now back in among the big classics of the game in France. As far as Calvados is concerned, it is the latest non-commercial club.

The course begins with 157 meters (par 3) in scenery that reminds you of Ballybunion. The second hole is 281 meters (par 4), which then leaves the dune crossing the Merville-Franceville road to play in the fairly flat meadows where the architect has set up water obstacles with long holes.

There are three par 5s, of which one, the 12th, 573 meters, turns back towards the road. At the sixteenth (167 meters, par 3) you must play a green on the top of a high dune among the beach grass and the bushes, where you see the beach and the whole resort. It is a hole that every golfer should dream of being able to play at least once in his or her life.

In 1988 the architect constructed a flat course of 9 holes in 2,930 meters (par 36) with annexed amenities such as a small training course of three holes especially for new players. This was done on the available swampland that ran along the edge of the racecourse. Like most Normandy resorts, horseracing takes up a large amount of time in the festive calendar.

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