Le Golf National’s Albatros Course near Paris, site of the men’s and women’s golf competitions for the 2024 Olympics, opened in 1990 with a design by Hubert Chesneau and Robert von Hagge. The layout was renovated in 2015 by European Golf Design.
Owned by the French Golf Federation, the Albatros Course will be the home of the French Open for the 30th time in October. It also was the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup, in which the European team trounced the U.S. 17.5-10.5.
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The men’s competition runs August 1-4, and the women will play August 7-10. The Albatros will be set up at 7,174 yards with a par of 71 for the men, then 6,374 yards with a par of 72 for the women – No. 18 will play as a par 4 for the men and will be converted to a par 5 for the women.
Thanks to yardage books provided by PuttView – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face over the next 10 days in France.
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