Stories from the courses, battlefields, and destinations on the Fairways & Frontlines journey.
Heritage The Armistice was signed at 5:10 am on 11 November 1918 inside a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne. In the six hours before the ceasefire took effect, 2,738 men were killed along the Western Front.
Heritage Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium holds 11,956 burials — the largest Commonwealth war cemetery on Earth. Roughly 8,370 headstones carry the same six words: 'A Soldier of the Great War, Known Unto God.'
Heritage Jean Letaille spent decades collecting Australian war relics from the fields of Bullecourt. He and his wife Denise received the Order of Australia Medal for preserving the memory of the 10,000 Australians who fell there.
Golf In July 2025, Grace Kim won the Evian Championship — the first Australian to do so. Every fairway at Evian Resort Golf Club offers views across Lake Geneva to Lausanne on the Swiss shore opposite.
Golf Before the 2024 Paris Olympics, Scottie Scheffler wrote two words as his goal: 'Have Fun.' Then he shot a final-round 62 at Le Golf National to win gold. We're playing the same course in September 2026.
Heritage On 4 July 1918, the Australian Corps attacked Le Hamel behind a creeping barrage. Monash predicted the battle would last 90 minutes. It took 93. Every objective was taken.
Golf A stone plaque with a gold inscription marks the spot on the 18th at Crans-sur-Sierre where Seve Ballesteros hit an impossible recovery shot in 1993. The course sits at 1,500 metres above sea level in the Swiss Alps.
Golf Golf de Preisch sits near the point where France, Luxembourg, and Germany converge. Its 27 holes are divided into three loops named after the three countries, all enclosed by a 200-year-old Napoleonic wall.
Heritage In 1993, an 89-year-old veteran scattered soil from Pozières over the Unknown Soldier's coffin in Canberra. Charles Bean called this ridge 'more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth.'
Golf From the 16th green at Golf Club d'Amiens, you can see the Villers-Bretonneux Australian National Memorial on the ridgeline. This centenary course was built on a former German munitions depot.
Concept No tour operator combines championship golf with WWI heritage. We searched every operator in Australia. So we built Fairways & Frontlines — 14 days, 6 courses, 10+ memorial sites across France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Heritage The Battle of Verdun lasted ten months in 1916, with over 700,000 combined casualties. Fort Douaumont, the Ossuary, and the Verdun Memorial Museum tell the story of the Western Front's defining battle.
Golf Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club sits at 1,500 metres altitude in the Swiss Alps, hosting the European Masters. The ball flies 10% further, and the views of the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc are extraordinary.
Heritage On Anzac Day 1918, Australian troops recaptured Villers-Bretonneux in a fierce night battle. Today the town's school sign reads 'Do not forget Australia.' The Sir John Monash Centre stands nearby.
Combo Palingbeek Golf Club in Belgium is built on a former WWI battlefield 3.3 km from Ypres. The clubhouse is a castle, and every single tee has a panel explaining the history of that spot.
Heritage The Menin Gate in Ypres bears 54,395 names of Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave — over 6,000 of them Australian. The Last Post has been played beneath it every evening since 1928.
Golf Le Golf National has been closed since 2024 for railway construction. When it reopens in September 2026, Fairways & Frontlines guests could be among the very first to play the restored Albatros Course.
Concept No tour operator combines championship golf with Australian WWI heritage. The golfers who travel to France are often the same people who want to visit the Western Front. Fairways & Frontlines bridges that gap.
Culture Colmar in Alsace has a UNESCO-listed old town, canals lined with pastel houses, and some of the best food in France. It's the palette cleanser between battlefields and lakeside luxury on Fairways & Frontlines.
Golf The Evian Resort Golf Club overlooks Lake Geneva with the Swiss Alps beyond. Fairways & Frontlines guests stay three nights at the 5-star Hôtel Royal with priority tee times on the championship course.
Heritage On 19 July 1916, 5,533 Australians were killed, wounded, or captured at Fromelles — Australia's worst single-day loss of the entire war. Day 5 of Fairways & Frontlines visits six major Australian sites.
Combo Golf & Country Club de Palingbeek sits on a former WWI battlefield just 3.3 km from Ypres. Every tee has a historical information panel describing what happened on that ground during the war.
Heritage Every evening at 8pm in Ypres, Belgium, buglers play the Last Post beneath the Menin Gate — a memorial inscribed with over 6,000 Australian names. The tradition has continued since 1928.
Golf Le Golf National's Albatros Course hosted one of the greatest Ryder Cup victories in history. In September 2026, Fairways & Frontlines guests will tee off where Europe's 2018 triumph unfolded.
