Most Provence courses lean into the landscape — soft limestone, olive groves, an unhurried Mediterranean logic that asks very little of you beyond showing up. Golf de Barbaroux does something different, and it announces the difference within the first few…

Beauvallon has been quietly watching the Gulf of Saint-Tropez since 1923, which places its founding in the same decade as Cannes Mougins and makes it one of the genuine period pieces of Riviera golf, even if it has never accumulated…

The road into Saumane-de-Vaucluse climbs gently through a landscape that hasn’t been arranged for tourists. Limestone escarpments, wild lavender growing where nobody planted it, a village of nine hundred people that has no interest in becoming a resort town. Golf…

Grande Bastide sits in the hills behind Grasse — the historic centre of the global perfume industry — and the course itself, designed by Cabell Robinson, a former partner of Robert Trent Jones Sr., in the early 1990s, takes a…

There is exactly one golf course in France that Seve Ballesteros ever put his name to, and it happens to sit in the foothills of the Luberon rather than anywhere more obviously suited to golfing pilgrimage. Pont Royal opened in…