Le Golf National, Albatros

Built between July 1987 and October 1990 southwest of Paris, Le Golf National was designed as a stadium from the start: the Albatros course holds 80,000 spectators on its mounds. Hubert Chesneau and Robert von Hagge designed it with Pierre Thevenin. It has hosted the Open de France, the oldest national open in continental Europe, every year since 1991 except two.

In 2018 it became France's first Ryder Cup venue, and in 2024 the golf of the Paris Olympics was played here. The Albatros is 7,331 yards, par 71, and its closing holes are what it was built for: water on the fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth, with grass banks and bulkheads along the greens. Two shorter courses, the Aigle and the nine-hole Oiselet, share the site.