Here’s something most golfers don’t know: Le Golf National, the course that hosted Europe’s demolition of the USA at the 2018 Ryder Cup, has been closed since October 2024.
Not closed for winter. Not closed for maintenance. Closed because the French government is building the Grand Paris Express railway directly underneath the property.
The Albatros Course, the same one where Francesco Molinari went 5-0 and Tiger Woods couldn’t buy a point, has been shut down for nearly two years.
The targeted reopening? September 1, 2026.
Our tour plays it in September 2027, in its first full season back.
That means Fairways & Frontlines guests will walk the newly restored Albatros while most of the golf world is still catching up. Think about that for a second: a course that was off-limits to every golfer on the planet for two years, freshly restored and waiting for our group of 14.
Le Golf National isn’t your average resort course. It was purpose-built for elite competition. Water on more than half the holes. Rough that swallows balls whole. And that amphitheatre 18th green where the Ryder Cup was decided: you’ll stand there, putter in hand, with nobody watching except your 13 mates.
This is Round 1 of six championship courses across France, Belgium, and Switzerland. After this, we head to a golf course built on a literal WWI battlefield, then to the Evian Championship course on Lake Geneva, then up to the European Masters venue in the Swiss Alps at 1,500 metres altitude.
But it starts at Le Golf National. The course nobody’s been able to play for two years.
14 places. September 2027.
Le Golf National is the opening round on our France golf tour from Australia, followed by championship golf across France, Belgium, and Switzerland.