Golf courses in the Côte d'Azur
The region’s golf courses are prized for their beauty, quality and layout, many of them designed by some of the most highly respected course architects. Wherever you stay in the Côte d’Azur, you’re never far from a great golf course.
Cannes Mougins is one of the regions most prestigious courses and has held many European tour events. It is well maintained and has fast challenging greens. The views are not as spectacular as other courses in the region but I guess it’s about the golf not the scenery! There is also a driving range, chipping green and putting green.
Holes: 18
Length: 6,315m (6,906 yards)
Par: 72
This beautiful 18 hole course has breathtaking views throughout including the bay of Cannes, the Lerins Islands and the Esterel mountains. It offers a great compromise between length and precision. Tactics and accuracy, rather than power, are the way forward here.
Holes: 18
Length: 5,896m (6,448 yards)
Par: 72
The Biot golf courses is one of the oldest course in the French Riviera, dating back to 1930. It is a short course at less than 5,000 yards, but with its narrow fairways it can be quite testing at times. It’s a great course for families and beginners and has a charming feel to it.
Holes: 18
Length: 4,511m (4,933 yards)
Par: 67
La Grande Bastide is one of the most well known courses in the French Riviera and offers magnificent views of Grasse, Opio and Châteauneuf de Grasse. It is a contemporary course with wide open fairways and greens protected by bunkers and water hazards.
Holes: 18
Length: 5.929m (6,484 yards)
Par: 72
Located 900 metres above sea level, this 18 hole golf course nestled between the French and Italian Riviera offers stunning scenery. It’s not actually located in Monte Carlo, but just outside in France. It has a rolling terrain which requires precision and plenty of elevation change.
Holes: 18
Length: 5,679m (6,211 yards)
Par: 71
The Country Club de Nice is a 9 hole pitch and putt course, ideal for beginners and those wishing to improve. It offers a range of different situations with bunkers and water hazards. There is also a 27 bay floodlit driving range.
Holes: 9
Length: 628m (686 yards)
Par: 27
This 18 hole course is set in a beautiful location between the sea and the mountains. 4,000 pine tress line the fairways and surround the course. Crossing the Siagne river on a ferry during a game is a unique feature of the course.
Holes: 18
Length: 5,749m (6,287 yards)
Par: 71
Located between Cannes, Nice and Grasse, this is one of the best course in the Côte d’Azur. It is set between the sea and the mountains in 220 hectares of undulating landscape, in the shade of century old trees. It even has a Gallo Roman aqueduct.
Holes: 18
Length: 5,738m (6,275 yards)
Par: 72
The Riviera Golf de Barbossi is among the finest golf courses in the Côte d’Azur, lying at the foot of the Esterel mountains between cork oaks and pines. Works of art of all sizes and colours accompany golfers along the way. They are the work of several contemporary artists from the region. The outstanding collection provides a beautiful setting around your game, a feature that makes this a truly a unique course. There is also a 15 bay driving range, a 3 hole practice course and a putting green.
Holes: 18
Length: 5,462m (5,973 yards)
Par: 71
One of several courses designed by Robert Trent Jones II, Saint Donat is a tree lined parkland course laid out over undulating terrain. Water hazards at several holes, some blind drives, well placed bunkers and large greens do a good job of protecting the par of 71.
Holes: 18
Length: 6,031m (6,596 yards)
Par: 71