Golf of Divonne

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16 years ago

The Golf of Divonne

The Domaine de Divonne is a Casino-Golf and Spa Resort, between the Jura mountains, the majestic Mont-Blanc and the French Alps. Welcome to one of Europe’s finest and most spectacular 18 hole championship golf courses.

The course

One of Europe’s finest and most spectacular 18 hole championship golf courses.
With a standard scratch score of 72 over a total playing distance of 6.030 meters, built in 1931. On this course, Floyd, Ballesteros, Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller, Tom Watson or Mark O’Meara have all experienced the subtle difficulties that each hole offers to drives or putts in this gorgeous surroundings. Numerous landscape architects, from Nakowski in the 20’s to Harradine in 1963 and even Antoine d’Ormesson, have contributed to the design and enhancement of the course. Located in the club-house of the golf, the Pavillon du Golf has a terrace with a view of Mont-Blanc and offers traditional french cuisine. Careful respect of the course’s natural contours are of additional attraction. Technically speaking, the course is remarkable and has an added feature of beginning and ending on a “Par 3”. Overall, there are six “Par 3” and six “Par 5”, complete with water obstacles.

Training periods

We propose training periods forms intended for the novice players and for those that wish to perfect.

Program for the season 2008

Michel Suhas and Gino Prudentino, teachers in the Golf of Domaine de Divonne, animate these training periods throughout the season. We propose training periods forms intended for the novice players and for those that wish to perfect. We help you to obtain an effective swing, adapted to your morphology and for the advanced golfers to improve their technique. For those that wish it, we offer the possibility of Passage of the green card or the handicap at the end of training.

Practical Informations

Domaine de Divonne

Avenue des Thermes

01220 Divonne les Bains

The Domaine de Divonne is located at only 15 kms off the international Geneva airport.

By air

Geneva-Cointrin International Airport (French or Swiss exists), 15 km from Divonne (9 miles).
Connections with the main international capitals and French cities (Paris, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand).
Taxi, car rental, coach or helicopter transfer services.

By prior reservation and quotations upon the size of your group

By rail

Geneva international railway station, at the center of Europe’s railways, 20 km from Divonne (9 miles).
Paris-Geneva and Paris-Lausanne by high-speed train direct (TGV 3h30).

By road

Divonne is linked to a European highway network

Paris-Divonne : 550 km (340 miles)
Lyon-Divonne : 170 km (106 miles)
Berne-Divonne : 136 km (85 miles)
Geneva-Divonne : 20 km (9 miles)
Milan-Divonne : 400 km (250 miles)

Geneva-Lausanne highway (Coppet-Divonne exit).