GOLF DE DIEPPE-POURVILLE

The Dieppe-Pourville Golf Course is an 18-hole golf course in the seaside and downtown. Its 70-metre course of 5695 metres has been open since 1897 in Dieppe (76 - Seine-Maritime). The sixth golf course built in France, the Dieppe-Pouville golf course is the first and oldest golf course in Normandy. Par 5 of hole number 16 offers splendid views of the white cliffs of Varangeville and Pourville beach. Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro were not wrong, attracted by the changing reflections of this Beautiful Cote d'Alabatre.

Considered in its early days as a links, its clay-limestone soil and planted trees cannot therefore claim to be a links in the historical sense of the term. The original 9-hole Top of the Cliff golf course is due to Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of Queen Victoria. Successive wars took place over the original 27-hole course in 1911; the greens of the 5 or 17 remain 100 years old and the whole course is located far from the erosion of the cliffs.

With its casino, its sea baths (the Sea Baths initiated by Caroline de Bourbon as early as 1822), its tennis shoes and its racetrack, Dieppe becomes a resort for our neighbours across the Channel. All that's missing is golf... is arguably the most heard expression at the time. In English, of course.