Le Golf National
The Albatros course at Le Golf National [lə ɡɔlf na.sjɔ.nal] is an 18 hole golf course designed by the architects Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge in collaboration with Pierre Thevenin. It is located in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris, France. It took three years to build from July 1987 to October 1990. It was opened on 5 October 1990 by Roger Bambuck, Minister of Youth and Sports. Le Golf National was the venue for the 1991 Open de France, the oldest national open in Continental Europe, and it has been held there every year since except on two occasions. It has been selected to host the Ryder Cup in 2018. The course has a capacity for 80,000[1] fans.
The Albatros (Albatross) is the main championship course with a par of 72 and measuring 7315 yards. The Aigle (Eagle) course is a par 71 course measuring 6224 yards. There is also a short 9 hole, par 32 Oiselet (Birdie) course.
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- Worcester Country Club, Worcester, Massachusetts (1927)
- Moortown Golf Club, Leeds (1929)
- Scioto Country Club, Upper Arlington, Ohio (1931)
- Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, Southport (1933 & 1937)
- Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey (1935)
- Portland Golf Club, Raleigh Hills, Oregon (1947)
- Ganton Golf Club, Ganton, North Yorkshire (1949)
- Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina (1951)
- Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey (1953)
- Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California (1955)
- Lindrick Golf Club, Lindrick, South Yorkshire (1957)
- Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, California (1959)
- Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire (1961 & 1977)
- East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia (1963)
- Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside (1965 & 1969)
- Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas (1967)
- Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri (1971)
- Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian (1973)
- Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (1975)
- The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1979)
- Walton Heath Golf Club, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey (1981)
- PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (1983)
- The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire (1985, 1989, 1993 & 2002)
- Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio (1987)
- Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina (1991)
- Oak Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York (1995)
- Valderrama Golf Club, Sotogrande, Andalusia (1997)
- The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts (1999)
- Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2004)
- K Club, Straffan, County Kildare (2006)
- Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky (2008)
- Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales (2010)
- Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois (2012)
- Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross (2014)
- Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota (2016)
- Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France (2018)
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Coordinates: 48°45′08″N 2°05′06″E / 48.7522°N 2.0851°E / 48.7522; 2.0851