Golf d'Etretat

Good morning Mr Peter, Thank you for letting us know your impressions about your recent visit to our golf course. We are sad to read that you did not enjoy your time playing Golf d'Etretat. However,… More

Good morning Mr Peter,

Thank you for letting us know your impressions about your recent visit to our golf course. We are sad to read that you did not enjoy your time playing Golf d'Etretat. However, we would like to clarify some points with you in order to understand better some of your thoughts.

Our clubhouse and parking are under major renovation since january 2023 and until february 2024. Because of this renovation, we have been in the obligation of changing our facilities for this season (it was changing our facilities or no golf for this year) and we have been in the obligation of finding a spot to start the course from. The hole you talked about (245 mts, HCP 2) is the usual hole number 3 and it has its tee boxes at 394 (white), 382 (yellow) and 330 for the blue and red tees. It is indeed quite a challenging hole but in order to acomodate our temporary bar&restaurant, the use of those tee boxes has been stopped and we use advanced tee boxes (just not to hit the terrace from the tee). These changes have been allowed by the French Golf Federation and they suggested us to not change the difficulty of the course for a year duration. That is why te first hole is "easier" this season. and keeps the HCP2 difficulty.

Our course has been created in 1908 and for that time this course was a bit hilly (as you can still notice in the back nine, with some pretty steep holes, ex. actual 13,14,15,17). I don't think this should be a problem not having a hilly course. Many of the people playing here think our course is actually quite steep...

Our greens are, with no doubt, not fast greens neither sloppy. In windy days, the challenge could become very tricky for the most part of the people and we re not looking to have a difficult course, but a enjoyable one for everyone coming to play once or our membres playing regularly.

Same for the bunkers, as I guess your playing conditions did not have much wind. The bunkers can get in play for every player with windy conditions. Unfortunately some of the bunkers have been there since the creation of the golf course in 1908 and the distances were not the same at that time. But the wind plays a major role in the placement of the bunkers.

As you might be aware of, there is only one real links in France, which is Granville Golf course n Normandy too. We are a marine golf course on top of the cliffs and we are very proud of that, but we won't never sell our course as a links course.

We are happy to read that you had a good lunch and we are sorry that we didn't meet your expectations. Our marine golf course will be waiting for you in the future, and hopefuly you will be able to visit us in our new building (with our brand new putting green and short game area opening at the same time) and maybe change your opinion from us.

We whish you a nice golfing season

Iñigo