Princeville sits in the heart of Quebec's Centre-du-Québec region, a rural stretch of rolling farmland and river valleys midway between Montreal and Quebec City. Golf here unfolds against a genuinely pastoral backdrop — the kind of unhurried landscape where the game feels like it belongs to the community rather than a resort brochure. Des Bois-Francs is very much a club of this place: a regional course serving the Arthabaska-Érable area, where locals take their golf seriously even if the wider world hasn't necessarily taken notice.
The par 73 layout is a detail worth pausing on. That extra stroke above the standard par 72 typically signals a second par 5 worked into the design somewhere unexpected, or a longer par 3 that rewards patience over aggression — the kind of routing decision that reflects a designer working with the land rather than against it.
Summers in this part of Quebec are warm and relatively short, which tends to concentrate the local golf culture into an enthusiastic seasonal rhythm. Expect genuine camaraderie on the tee sheet and a course that rewards players who return to it year after year.
