Le Golf National

The Albatross Course at Le Golf National in Guyancourt outside Paris, a wonderful, inland links-target style course that is invariably ranked among the top five in Europe, is where this week's French Open is to be played.( TaylorMade Rossa MONZA CORZA Putter)
The course, which is open to the public, was recently chosen to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, the first on mainland Europe in more than a decade.
BACKGROUND
Stretching nearly 7,000 yards in the flatland region of Guyancourt which surrounds the historic Chateau of Versailles, once home to Louis XIV, The Albatross championship course is one of the three that make up the Le Golf National Club, the other two being the 18-hole classical L'Aigle (Eagle) Course and the 9-hole L'Oiselet (Sparrow) Course.
The initial plan for the Le National Club was drawn up in 1985 by The French Golf Federation's Executive Committee headed up by Claude Cartier after it was decided that the French Open, inaugurated in 1906 and today mainland Europe's oldest top-flight professional tournament, should be given a permanent home.
After three years of construction, the course was opened for play TaylorMade Rossa MONZA CORZA Putter in 1990.
The Albatross was designed by golf architects Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge in the late 80's and adapts magnificently to the flat corn farmlands of the vast Guyancourt region, cunningly combining the typical features of a Scottish links course with the target golf style setup so popular in the USA.
It's 6,854 yards layout is built on a clay base, so there is excellent drainage for the fairways.
It is made up of well trimmed, slick greens and vast undulating fairways dotted with innumerable links bunkers, sand traps, large and small water hazards, fescue roughs, tree obstacles and the rigid slopes of its artificially-created sand mounds.
Certainly it is an excellent test of a golfers' versatility, his correct choice of clubs and his shot-making capabilities and provides a unique experience of links-target golf(TaylorMade Rossa MONZA CORZA Putter).
ALBATROSS TRIVIA:
- The Le Golf National-Albatros course has been ranked as high as the 3rd best European Championship Course in a European Tour Professionals survey and 4th amongst European courses by the British golf magazine, Golf World .
- The first French Open to be held at the Le Golf National-Albatros course, was in 1991, when, overcoming the miserable, rainy weather on that day, England's Nick Faldo came home with a 71 to win by TaylorMade Rossa MONZA CORZA Putter.
- Perhaps the most famous holes at the Le Golf National-Albatros course are it's last four which are all pretty decisive and in degree of difficulty, can be equated in some respect, with Ahmen Corner at Augusta National.
- The course record at the Albatross is held by the Argentine's Eduardo Romero who went out in 29 and came back in 33 for a 9-under 62 on at the French Open on June 23, 2005.