Fontainebleau Golf Club - France
The Fontainebleau Golf Club is a magnificent golf club, set in the popular tourist destination of Fontainebleau, and is amongst France's oldest clubs.
History of the Club:
The Fontainebleau Golf Club is located in the picturesque tourist town of Fontainebleau in northern France, renowned for its scenic beauty and its remarkable Château de Fontainebleau .
The 18 hole scenic course is subtly crafted amidst Fontainebleau's famous sandstone forests, with various species of trees lining its fairways, namely pines, oaks and silver birches.
The classic Fontainebleau Golf Course was designed in 1909 by architect designer Tom Simpson. The course was bettered later by a father-son team of Frederic George Hawtree and his son, Martin.
The 6645 yards, par 72, course of the Fontainebleau Golf Club consists of a fabulous natural forest layout along with sandstone rocks, incorporated into the course play. With well conditioned greens and narrow tree-lined undulating fairways dotted by strategically positioned ‘103' bunkers, slopes and roughs, this course proves to be a formidable golfing challenge and a test of accuracy.
The Fontainebleau course has been built on a sandy base, making this course playable in any weather and different hole settings for a diverse game amidst tranquil forests.
The exquisite and grand Clubhouse of the Fontainebleau Golf Club offers charm, relaxation and warmth, carried through the ages, in the heritage building. The Clubhouse design is based on the Norman style, while its walls and interiors are adorned with beautiful tree frescoes painted by Paul Tavernier, renowned member of the Barbizon school- a true architectural masterpiece.
Course Trivia:
- The outstanding features of the Fontainebleau Golf Club have made it receive wide acclaim and rankings- ranked as France's topmost golf club in 2001 by Golf European magazine readers' poll.
- The Fontainebleau forest area is a major tourist spot, home to a national park teeming with numerous species of plant and animal life, and also being a historical royal hunting ground now housing the awe-inspiring, Renaissance-style structure of the Château of Fontainebleau.
- The Fontainebleau Golf Club provides an aesthetic visual delight in all seasons, owing to its striking gardens teeming with innumerable species of shrubs and flowers like brooms, lilacs, ferns. The color and scent provides a contrast to the lush green landscape of the course.
- Amongst the famous holes, its short par 5, 12 th hole requires strategy to overcome the sandstone rocks obstacles to reach the green.
