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Though it can't touch tennis, le foot, or bicycling for popularity in France, golf is beginning to catch on, and you may be able to find a course close to where you're staying. Typical greens fees range from 200-300FF, depending on the season. Here are a few of the better-known places:

On the Atlantic coast:

  • Arcachon
    phone 05-56-54-44-00
  • Biarritz
    phone 05-59-03-71-80
  • Cognac
    phone 05-45-32-18-17
  • Lacanau
    phone 05-56-26-35-50

In Ile-de-France:

  • Disneyland (23mi./37km east of Paris)
    phone 01-60-45-68-04

In Lyon-Alps region:

  • Aix-les-Bains
    av. du Golf, Aix-les-Bains
  • Chamonix Public Course
    rte. de Tines, Les Praz de Chamonix
  • Château le Monard
    Montboucher-sur-Labron, Montélimar

In Provence:

  • Golf International du Château de l'Arc
    Fuveau (20mi./32km from Aix-en-Provence); phone 04-42-53-28-38
  • Golf de Valcros
    la Londe-les-Maures (23mi./37km east of Toulouse); phone 04-94-66-81-02
  • La Grande Motte
    phone 04-67-56-05-00

On the Riviera:

  • Golf de Biot
    La Bastide du Roy, Cannes; phone 04-93-65-08-48
  • Golf Cannes-Mandelieu
    rte. du Golf, Cannes; phone 04-93-49-55-39
  • Riviera Golf Club
    av. des Amazones, La Napoule; phone 04-92-97-67-67


Author: Ian C. Mills © 1998-2000 All Rights Reserved
Bibliography: Fodor's 99 France, Editor: Natasha Lesser, Fodor's Travel Publications, New York. Paris From $70 A Day, Jeanne Oliver, 1998, Macmillan Travel, A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company, New York. France 1998 Discovery Guide, French Government Tourist Office, New York. Passport's France Trip Planner & Guide, Emma Stanford, 1994, NTC Publishing Group, Chicago. Let's Go - The Budget Guide to France 1997, Thomas F. Moore, 1997, Let's Go Publications, Cambridge, MA, printed by St. Martin's Press, New York.
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