Golf des Forges

The Deux-Sèvres department sits in the heart of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, where the landscape softens into rolling farmland, ancient forest, and the bocage country that defines this quiet corner of western France. Golf des Forges occupies grounds shaped by that wooded character — mature trees lining fairways, natural contours giving the routing genuine variety, and the kind of unhurried atmosphere that distinguishes rural French golf from busier resort destinations along the Atlantic coast.

The club draws a loyal regional membership but remains accessible to visiting golfers, which is something of a calling card for well-run French provincial clubs. The course plays through forested corridors that demand accuracy off the tee, rewarding players who manage the tree-lined landing zones over those who simply overpower the layout. Like many courses in this part of France, positioning and course management matter more than raw distance.

Les Forges itself is a small community, and the course carries that intimate, local character — no grand resort infrastructure, just honest golf in genuinely pretty surroundings, which in its own way is exactly the point.