Dinard Golf, seaside fairways along the rocky Emerald Coast at Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany
Ranked · clifftop, seaside and forest

The Best Golf Courses in Brittany

France's wild northwest does golf the way it does everything, on its own terms: the country's second oldest course hanging over the rocks at Dinard, a seaside stunner at Pléneuf-Val-André whose 11th hole turns up on lists of the world's best, and a supporting cast of holiday courses where €70 buys the kind of coastline that costs four times that in Scotland. Our ranked verdict on the seven that matter.

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By the GolfForKings editorial desk · Editorial policy · Last reviewed June 2026

Photograph: Dinard Golf, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, via Google

How we chose them

This list is the editorial desk's verdict, built the way we rank everywhere: design pedigree and the quality of the golfing ground first, setting and atmosphere second, value and visitor access third. Brittany demands honesty up front. There is no Open rota links here and no course that would crack a world top 100; what there is instead is the most underrated golf coastline in France, the Côte d'Émeraude between Saint-Malo and Pléneuf-Val-André, where a cluster of seaside courses plays over genuine clifftop and duneland for green fees between €43 and €110.

Geography shaped the ranking. Five of the seven sit on or near the Emerald Coast in the north, an easy ferry or drive from Saint-Malo, and two fly the flag for the south, Cornouaille near Quimper and Ploemeur Océan outside Lorient, for golfers touring the whole peninsula. Where we quote a fee it is the club's published 2026 rate and marked indicative; always confirm directly before booking. For how Brittany sits in the national picture, see our best courses in France ranking.

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01

Dinard Golf

Founded 1887 · Saint-Briac-sur-Mer · second oldest course in France · clifftop seaside

The grande dame of Breton golf and the second oldest course in France, laid out in 1887 for the British colony that summered on this coast. Dinard is short on the card and unforgettable on the ground: the holes hug the rocky shoreline nearly the whole way around, the wind off the Channel does the defending, and the views across to Saint-Briac's beaches belong on a poster. The 2026 green fee is €110 in high season, April to the start of November, and €70 in low season, history per euro that almost nothing in French golf matches. The one course in Brittany we would cross the country for.

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02

Pléneuf-Val-André

Alain Prat, 1992 · Côtes-d'Armor · celebrated 11th hole · seaside heath

Widely considered the prettiest course in Brittany and Alain Prat's best work, Pléneuf-Val-André runs between heathland and the sea above the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, links like in its turf and its weather without quite being links. The short 11th along the water, gorse one side and the beach the other, has been named among the top 500 holes in the world and carries the postcard for the whole region. Operated within the Bluegreen group, it publishes 2026 fees from €43 in low season to €74 at peak, outrageous value for a course this photogenic. The essential second round of any Emerald Coast trip.

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03

Saint-Cast Pen Guen

Founded 1926 · Côte d'Émeraude · St Andrews founding story · seaside

A century old in 2026, Saint-Cast was founded by a group of friends from St Andrews, and the DNA shows: a compact seaside course over Pen Guen's sandy headland where the sea is in view or in play most of the round and nothing about the golf is forced. It is the connoisseur's quiet pick of the coast, less polished than Dinard, less photographed than Pléneuf, and all the more charming for it, with published fees running roughly €47 to €70 by season. Paired with a morning at Sables-d'Or twenty minutes west, it makes the perfect value day on the Emerald Coast.

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04

Golf de Cornouaille

Fred Hawtree 1959, Martin Hawtree 1992 · La Forêt-Fouesnant · south Brittany's best

The south's flagship, set above the sailing water of La Forêt-Fouesnant fifteen kilometers from Quimper. The first nine was drawn by Fred Hawtree and opened in 1959; his son Martin, the architect trusted with Royal Birkdale and Royal Liverpool, completed the eighteen in 1992, and the family pedigree is obvious in the green sites and the bunkering. Mature, beautifully kept and genuinely strategic, it is the round that justifies extending a Brittany trip beyond the north coast, with Quimper's old town and the Glénan islands filling the off day. The best golf in Finistère by a comfortable margin.

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05

Saint-Malo Golf Resort, Le Tronchet

Hubert Chesneau, 1986 · 27 holes · forest and lakes · stay and play

The region's stay and play base: 27 holes at Le Tronchet, inland between Saint-Malo and Rennes, designed by Hubert Chesneau, the architect of Le Golf National's Ryder Cup course outside Paris. The main eighteen is a par 72 through Breton forest and around lakes, a complete change of pace from the windblown coast, and the hotel sits in a converted 17th century priory beside the first tee. For groups arriving on the Saint-Malo ferry it is the simplest one base trip in Brittany: golf on site, Dinard and Saint-Cast within forty minutes, and the walled city for dinner.

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06

Ploemeur Océan

Macauley and Quenouille, 1990 · near Lorient · views to Île de Groix · seaside

South Brittany's seaside answer to the Emerald Coast, laid out in 1990 by Macauley and Quenouille on the low cliffs west of Lorient. The holes along the water, with the Île de Groix on the horizon, are the equal of anything in the north, and the links flavored turf keeps it playable and fast through the seasons within the Bluegreen network's friendly pricing. It is the natural partner to Cornouaille on a southern swing, an hour apart along the Finistère and Morbihan coast, with Carnac's standing stones and the Quiberon peninsula on the rest day.

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07

Sables-d'Or-les-Pins

Fréhel · dunes and pines · holiday seaside golf · confirm fees directly

The happiest golf on this list. Sables-d'Or plays through the dunes and maritime pines behind one of Brittany's great beaches, near Cap Fréhel between Saint-Cast and Pléneuf-Val-André, holiday golf in the best sense: short enough for every standard, scenic enough that nobody checks their score, and priced for daily play. On a coast where the three courses above it sit within half an hour of each other, it completes the four round Emerald Coast week without repeating a note. Take the family, take the camera, confirm seasonal fees with the club directly.

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Design facts verified June 2026 from club and architectural sources; green fees are indicative 2026 published rates, highest in summer, always confirm directly before booking. Check tee time availability.

Building the trip

The smart build is five nights on the Emerald Coast: base in Dinard or Saint-Malo, play Dinard, Pléneuf-Val-André, Saint-Cast and Sables-d'Or on consecutive mornings, and let the afternoons take care of themselves, the walled city, the corniche walks, the oyster towns of Cancale and Saint-Briac. Ferries from Portsmouth land you twenty minutes from the first tee, which makes this the easiest no flight golf trip in France for British travelers; from Paris, Rennes is under two hours by TGV and forty five minutes from the coast. Total green fee spend for the four rounds, around €300 at 2026 rates, is less than a single peak round at the famous links the same golfers queue for elsewhere. Add the southern pair, Cornouaille and Ploemeur Océan, and you have a full week and the whole peninsula. The France golf holidays page covers the national picture, our French green fees guide sets these numbers in context, and the France destination hub maps every region we cover.

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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Design facts and fees verified June 2026. Last reviewed June 2026.