The Golfs d'Hardelot host study days and seminars for up to 70 people in a 64 m² seminar room, with lunch at the Restaurant des Dunes and golf sessions for groups of 6 to 100 on two 18-hole courses. The club is at 3 avenue du Golf in Neufchâtel-Hardelot, on the Côte d'Opale, and belongs to the Resonance Golf Collection.
Seminars and company events
The study day package includes a welcome coffee, the equipped seminar room and lunch. Lunch follows the club's Birdie formula, a starter and main course or a main course and dessert, with wine, soft drinks and water. The room can also be booked on its own for two hours, half a day or a full day. For team building, the club runs private competitions it organizes from start to finish, introductory golf sessions with instructors and equipment for 6 to 100 people over one to four hours, privatization of a course or of the practice area, and branding of the course in company colors. Contests and entertainment can be added to the sessions. The club also runs a business club, Hardelot Golf and Business, and offers a site visit and a budget estimate before booking.
Rooms and capacities
The seminar room measures 64 m² and opens directly onto the outdoors. It seats 28 in a U-shape, 70 theatre style and 50 at a banquet, and takes 70 for a standing cocktail. It comes with an HD video projector, free Wi-Fi and a flipchart, and the layout can be changed. The club also lists a showroom, the two courses and the practice area among its event spaces.
Catering
The Restaurant des Dunes stands at the Golf des Dunes and looks out over the course and the green surroundings, with a sunny terrace. Its menu is mostly traditional French and regional cooking based on local, seasonal produce, and it changes with the seasons. Group meals are adapted to the budget and the timing of the day. The club has a second restaurant, the Restaurant des Pins, in the Les Pins clubhouse.
Accommodation
There are no bedrooms at the restaurant. The club's website points to three hotels: the Manoir Hotel, Le Régina and the Najeti Hôtel du Parc.
History and setting
Golf at Hardelot dates from 1905, when John Whitley laid out a first nine-hole course; the first tee stood on a tower of the Château d'Hardelot, rebuilt by Sir John Hare in 1850. A new layout closer to the resort and the sea replaced it in 1921. At the end of the 1920s, the club commissioned Tom Simpson, the architect of Chantilly, Morfontaine and The Berkshire, to build an 18-hole course, Les Pins, which the club dates to 1934 and which runs through pine forest. A second 18-hole course followed: Paul Rolin and Jean-Claude Cornillot won a design competition supported by the French golf federation, drew Les Dunes in 1988, and the course opened in 1991 among lakes and dunes.
Getting there
The club is a few minutes from the main towns of the Côte d'Opale, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Parking is free.
