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Home > Golf Courses > Europe > Lyon Golf Club Villette d'Anthon (Les Sangliers course)
Lyon Golf Club Villette d'Anthon (Les Sangliers course)
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. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is now becoming an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society.
The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. Golf is played on a tract of land known as the course which consists of a series of holes or cups. Most golf courses usually consist of nine or eighteen holes. There are several types of golf courses namely Parkland, Links, Healthland, Desert, Browns, Sand, Snow, Par3 and Executive.
Nestling within a 550 acres wooded estate on the banks of the Rhone River, at the outskirts of Lyon, Lyon Golf Club Villette d'Anthonlies in a nature preserve teeming of wild life and with no sign of civilisation in sight. The Lyon Golf Club at Vilette d'Anthon is one of the best courses in France and the biggest golf complex in the Rhone-Alpes region, together with Le Gouverneur golf resort. In this privileged environment, the club features two eighteen hole courses, Les Brocards and Les Sangliers, and the 8 hole compact course Les Marcassins.
Les Sangliers is a demanding championship course inaugurated in 1992 and designed by Hugues Lambert which has been the venue of numerous international tournaments, including the French Open. This par 73 course has 18 holes measuring 6,727 meters or 7,360 yards with a slope gradient of 137 for a standard scratch score of 75.2 from the championship tees.
It is also a regular stop of the French and European PGA, Professional Golfers' Association tours. Stretching through a lush forest, this course demands an all-round game, technical skills, strength and stamina. Walking is allowed on the course and buggies are available. Numerous exploratory rounds will also be necessary before coming to grips with its difficulties and understand its strategic requirements. The course is designed specifically to improve the quality of the game.
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