France’s Cote d’Azur Promotes Golf Destinations
With over 60 courses spanning the six areas making up the region, Provence Côte d’Azur is one of France’s leading golfing destinations. This activity is actively supported by the region’s tourist industry through a policy designed to assist courses in structuring and promoting high-quality golfing services, and ensure that Provence Côte d’Azur is well positioned on the international golf tourism market.
Provence Côte d’Azur offers visiting golfers a choice of green fee packages, a network of partner hotels and various groups specializing in the development of golf tourism (Open Golf Club, Blue Green, NGF and Formule Golf), websites, package deals available from a selection of travel agents (Parcours Voyages, EfranceGolf), events and golf academies offering instruction.
Signed by such names as Seve Ballesteros, Pete Dye, Robert Trent Jones, Gary Player, Don Harradine and Bob van Hagge, the courses are spread throughout the region, from the Italian border to the Rhône and the Mediterranean Sea to the Alps, offering a fabulously varied golfing experience.
Served by four airports including the second largest airport in France Nice Côte d’Azur international airport, and Marseille Provence (now offering a dedicated low cost terminal), plus TGV and Thalys high-speed train services from all over Europe, the Provence Côte d’Azur region allows golfers in Europe a weekend or short break in the South of France.
The region offers such golfing passes as the Golf Pass Pays de Grasse good at four major courses: the Golf du Claux Amic (Grasse), the Golf de la Grande Bastide (Châteauneuf-de-Grasse), the Golf d’Opio-Valbonne (Opio) and the Golf de Saint-Donat (Grasse).
The “Pass Golf Mandelieu” comprises two green fees, giving access to two 18-hole courses in Mandelieu-La Napoule: the Old Course (the second oldest golf course in France created in 1891) and the Riviera Golf. The Golf Pass Provence comprises three or five green fees, valid on 16 different partner golf courses, in five counties in Provence Côte d’Azur region.
