Golf
Golf Château de la Tournette
Nivelles · 2 sites
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2 courses
L’Américain
- 18 holes
- Par 72
- Length 6,300 m
- Opened 1988
The American Course gives La Tournette its broadest and most dramatic expression. Bill Amick created a large-scale par 72 that was later revised by Peter Alliss and Clive Clark. Water, substantial bunkers and expansive greens are more than decoration: they organise how each hole is perceived and create clear contrasts between space and constraint.
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Architecture
Amick uses the vocabulary of American parkland golf without suppressing the natural movement of Walloon Brabant. Major hazards are visible, fairway surfaces appear generous and the green complexes become the architectural focus. Water enters repeatedly, including par threes with full carries and the closing sequence promoted as the European Amen Corner.
The course in detail
The course crosses distinctly rolling ground and provides a more physical walk than its broad fairways might suggest. Landing areas often sit on shoulders or beside slopes that alter the view toward the green. Several lakes occupy natural or reshaped hollows, while large bunker complexes emphasise changes in level.
Greens are expansive and sometimes raised, carrying enough internal movement to produce varied pin areas without losing their visibility from the fairway.
Editorial source: The Round public Atlas
L’Anglais
- 18 holes
- Par 72
- Length 6,200 m
- Opened 1988
The English Course is La Tournette’s more open and elemental eighteen. Martin Hawtree laid a full-scale course across the undulations of Walloon Brabant, combining broad fairways, constant exposure to wind and an aesthetic that recalls British tradition without pretending to be a coastal links. Peter Alliss and Clive Clark later revised the design.
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Architecture
Hawtree favours broad, legible gestures: changes of direction, visible bunkers and greens placed naturally on folds in the land. The current par 72 contains four par fives and five par threes, producing marked shifts in scale through the sequence. Width is never uniform, narrowing near boundaries, the road and selected green complexes.
Later revisions retained the traditional appearance while strengthening bunker definition and the variety of usable pin areas.
The course in detail
The land alternates long, subtle climbs, plateau crossings and returns through more sheltered folds. Fairways appear generous, yet slopes and changes of level alter depth perception. Natural rough gives the edges a wilder texture, while trees occur in groups rather than continuous corridors.
A public road divides the property beside or across several holes and forms a firm boundary. It is part of the course’s unusual physical reality rather than a decorative feature.
Editorial source: The Round public Atlas
The club
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History
La Tournette’s roots long predate golf: the estate was occupied in Roman times and its present buildings date from the early seventeenth century. In 1988 investors proposed a prestigious club across 160 hectares; the current owning family renewed the project’s momentum from 1994.
The American originated with Bill Amick, one of the Florida architect’s relatively rare European commissions, before revisions by Peter Alliss and Clive Clark refined its lines and relationship with the landscape.
Club experience
La Tournette accepts visiting golfers through a tee-time request, with handicap below 36 required on both the American and English courses. Guests register at reception with their federation card before using the practice areas and château clubhouse. Shop, dining, terrace, trolleys and golf cars support the visit subject to availability.
The estate contains two full eighteens and the compact Orival, but their starting points and identities remain clearly distinguished from arrival.
Geography and setting
The estate covers roughly 160 hectares in the Ittre and Nivelles valleys south of Brussels. Walloon Brabant farmland rolls around a seventeenth-century château-farm, woodland, pasture and lakes. The American occupies areas where shaping and long prospects are most strongly expressed.
Belgian weather moves between wet periods, westerly winds and occasionally firm summers; low light gives extra definition to the contours and large areas of sand.
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- Golf Château de la Tournette — L’AnglaisChemin de Baudemont 21, 1400 NivellesGolfShow on map
- Golf Château de la Tournette — L’AméricainChemin de Baudemont 21, 1400 NivellesGolfShow on map
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