Golf International de Pont Royal

The origins The creation of the Pont Royal International Golf Course began in 1991 on former hunting grounds, garrigue and pine forests. It is the work of Severiano Ballesteros who thus signs his only course in France, inaugurated by him along with Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, in September 1992. Pont Royal owes its name to the old royal road used by the “Bon Roi René” during his hunting in Provence and whose bridge arch is still visible on the access road. The emblem of both hinds resumes a sculpture found in the ancient chapel belonging to the Moulin. The project was born thanks to the will of Messieurs Ventre, owner of the Moulin de Vernègues and Daniel Conte, Mayor of Mallemort, with the support of Claude Roger Cartier, President of the French Golf Federation. Integrated into the 183 hectare Pont Royal Estate and realized on a calcareous ground, under the eye of the project manager David Krause who later became first director, the course is inspired by the American “technical routes” by combinning special grass mixtures for the sake of unique, stronger seeds, better adapted to playing and growing on a sand substrate. Thus at Pont Royal the formula of the greens and tee boxes is simple: 100% pencross. The fairways are composed of 25% ryegrass and 75% fescue.