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Hossegor Golf Club
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. This game does not have any fixed standard playing area, but an ideal measurement can be decided as per the availability of space and number of players involved. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles.
Hossegor Golf Club was founded in 1929 and designed by Jim Morrison and Tom Simpson. Hossegor nestles amidst a lush pine forest and sand dunes on the Cote d'Argent, stretching over two hundred kilometres of uninterrupted beaches on the Atlantic shore between Biarritz and the Gironde estuary. In this outstanding environment, Mother Nature has provided the perfect environment for golf courses, with a sandy soil requiring almost no reshaping and allowing play even under the wettest conditions.
Hossegor Golf Club climate is Atlantic with mild, rather wet winters and warm summers. For tee times advanced booking is required. Buggies available and caddies on request, proper golf attire required. Built back in 1927, Hossegor is the eldest of these courses and a classic in the region. The site was selected by famous French pro Arnaud Massy, caddy at Biarritz and the first foreigner and only French player to have won the British Open back in 1907, while the design of the layout was commanded to Jim Morisson. It is also ranked amongst the Top 50 courses in continental Europe by British Golf World magazine.
This par 71 course has 18 holes measuring 6,006 meters or 6,571 yards with a slope gradient of 133 for a standard scratch score of 72.2 from the championship tees. This is a rather flat course with green fairways lined by grand pine trees where all the hazards are clearly visible while the neatly manicured greens demand a sharp strategic approach.
Although on the shore but nestling in a lush forest, Hossegor is very similar to the typical British Home Counties courses, with fairways bordered by pine groves and ferns, with numerous sand bunkers and hardly any water. The practice facilities are exceptional and there is a new nine holes practice green with four different sections surrounding it in clockwise rotation. The course is designed specifically to improve the quality of the game.
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