Le Golf National Is Ready To Give Us Something Special

Louis XIV would be jealous of the course conditioning at Le Golf National and while the style of design—American 80s faux links meets Stadium Golf—isn’t my cup of tea, nor is the silly hack-out rough setup, this will be the best Ryder Cup venue of our lifetimes.

Granted, the bar is not high here in Europe with venues chosen for financial reasons and American locations largely chosen based on vast scale. But the combination of risk-reward holes, routing and a reasonable scale should give us scenes we haven’t had before, or will have again except around the closing holes at Bethpage Black (2024).

Anyway, here is my case for Le Golf National as the high point until someone finally takes a Ryder Cup to Pebble Beach or the Old Course at St. Andrews.