Château Royale d’Ardenne - Belgium

We don’t know who designed the course at the Royal Golf Club du Château Royal d’Ardenne but we do know that it was constructed by the royal appointment of King Léopold II, opening as a 9-hole layout back in 1895.

Carved out of the beautifully wooded countryside of the Ardennes, the course was refurbished by Baron Gaston Braun shortly after the Second World War and expanded from 12 holes to its present 18-hole set up in 1992.

Trees of many varieties line the undulating fairways here on a layout that concludes with a highly unusual configuration of holes that comprises a pair of par threes at 15 and 16, followed by a brace of par fives at 17 and 18.