The Best Golf Resorts in the Loire Valley
Chateau country plays golf the way it does everything else, behind long driveways. The valley holds Europe's most exclusive golf estate at Les Bordes, where a Six Senses hotel arrives in 2026, two genuine chateau resorts with their own 18s, a working abbey village resort near Saumur, and a course on the lawns of Cheverny itself. Here are the five that matter, ranked.
Photograph: Les Bordes Golf Club, via Google
How we chose
This list was researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk, and every designer, opening year and claim on it was checked against estate, resort and federation sources in June 2026. The Loire is not a golf coast; it is a UNESCO listed river valley of chateaux, vineyards and the Sologne forest, ninety minutes south of Paris, where the golf hides on private estates. That shapes the ranking: we scored each property on the golf at its door first, then the stay, and we are blunt about access, because the best course in the region belongs to one of the most private clubs in the world. One entry has no hotel and earns its place anyway.
The season runs March to November, soft and green at the edges, with the Sologne's sandy soil draining better than the postcard suggests. Where fees appear they carry their season and year and are indicative rather than guaranteed, so always confirm directly before booking. The national context lives in our France golf holidays page and our green fees in France guide.
The best in the Loire Valley, ranked
Les Bordes Estate, Saint-Laurent-Nouan
The crown, with a gate. Les Bordes is a 1,400 acre private domain deep in the Sologne forest, ninety minutes south of Paris, holding two of continental Europe's best courses: Robert von Hagge's brutal, beautiful Old Course and Gil Hanse's wide, firm New Course, plus the Wild Piglet, a Hanse short course that does not require membership. The club is famously private, which is the honesty clause on this entire entry, but the door is opening: a 50 room Six Senses hotel with three restaurants and an 18,000 square foot spa is slated to open on the estate in 2026, bringing the first real stay and play path onto the property. How it ranks against France's other temples is in our Les Bordes vs Morfontaine verdict. Our verdict here: the best golf estate in continental Europe; watch the hotel opening like a hawk.
Access: private club; Wild Piglet and the incoming Six Senses are the visitor routes. Check stay availability.
Chateau d'Augerville Golf and Spa Resort, Augerville-la-Riviere
The chateau resort done properly. Augerville is a genuine five star in a moated chateau on the Loiret edge of the valley, 75 kilometers from Paris and 24 from Fontainebleau, with around 40 rooms split between the main house and its historic outbuildings, a two floor Chateau Spa, and its own 18 hole course running through 100 hectares of parkland and old trees. It is the only property in the region that pairs five star service with golf you can walk to in slippers, and the Paris proximity makes it the natural first or last night of any French golf itinerary. The course is handsome resort parkland rather than a championship examination, which is the only thing keeping it from the top line. Our verdict: the best bookable golf hotel in the Loire, full stop.
Access: public; rooms and spa book out on summer weekends. Check stay and play rates.
Chateau Golf des Sept Tours, Courcelles-de-Touraine
The storybook one. Sept Tours is a turreted chateau forty minutes northwest of Tours whose 76 hectare domain carries a proper test: 18 holes at par 72 and 6,093 meters, open since 1993, with narrow tree lined fairways and water in play often enough to keep the card honest. The rooms live in the chateau itself, each done differently, and the first tee is a stroll across the lawn, which is the whole point: this is the most complete sleep where you play property in the Touraine, priced far below what the silhouette suggests. Dinner in the vaulted dining room after a long evening nine is the memory the trip keeps. Our verdict: the romantic mid market pick, and the best pure stay and play logistics on this list.
Access: public; ask for a chateau room over the annex. Check stay and play rates.
Domaine de Roiffe, Roiffe
The value engine of the valley. Roiffe spreads 80 rooms through a set of handsome 19th century buildings on the Anjou Touraine border, five minutes from the royal abbey of Fontevraud and twenty from Saumur's wine cellars, with its own 18 hole course out the back, a spa, an outdoor pool and the Le Garden restaurant looking down the fairways. Nothing here pretends to five stars and nothing needs to: the green fee to room rate arithmetic is the best in the region by a distance, which makes it the obvious base for a society or buddies group doing the western Loire on sensible money. The wine country errands almost plan themselves. Our verdict: the best value golf stay between Tours and the Atlantic.
Access: public; half board golf packages are the smart buy. Check stay and play rates.
Golf du Chateau de Cheverny, Cheverny
The day trip that makes the postcard real. The course at Cheverny plays on the historic lands of the chateau itself, the model for Moulinsart in the Tintin books, an 18 hole par 71 of 5,946 meters drawn by Olivier Van Der Vynckt around the Rousseliere pond, open since 1988 and welcoming visitors daily with advance booking. There is no hotel on the property, so build it as the marquee outing of a Blois or Chambord base, fifteen minutes away, and let the non golfers tour the chateau while you play. The terrace restaurant above the putting green handles the reunion. Our verdict: the essential round of any Loire itinerary that sleeps elsewhere.
Access: public daily, booking essential. Check tee times.
Designers, opening years, course measurements and operating details verified June 2026 by the GolfForKings editorial desk from estate, resort and federation published sources. Any rates shown carry their season and year and are indicative only; always confirm directly with each property before booking.
Plan a Loire Valley golf trip
Tell us roughly when and who is traveling. One concierge sequences the chateaux, the cellars and the tee times sensibly, pairs the right rooms, and prices the trip honestly. We reply within one working day, with no obligation.
Building the trip
The valley runs east to west, so the trip should too: arrive from Paris with a night and a round at Augerville, drop into the Sologne for Cheverny and whatever access to Les Bordes your timing allows, then finish west around Sept Tours and Roiffe with the Saumur cellars and Fontevraud as the rest day. A week covers it without a single long drive. The national picture, from Chantilly to Biarritz, is in our France golf holidays page, the budget math in green fees in France, and the seaside alternative one region north in our Brittany resorts ranking and Normandy guide. To weigh the valley against the continent's big estates, browse the best golf resorts in Europe, then let plan my trip put the whole thing in one brief.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Les Bordes' von Hagge and Hanse courses, Wild Piglet access and the 2026 Six Senses opening with 50 rooms and an 18,000 square foot spa verified June 2026 against estate and Six Senses published pages; Augerville's five star rating, room count, 100 hectares and Paris distance verified against the resort's official site; Sept Tours' 1993 opening, par 72 and 6,093 meters verified against federation and operator sources; Roiffe's 80 rooms, 18 holes and Fontevraud proximity verified against the domain's official site; Cheverny's 1988 opening, par 71, 5,946 meters and Van Der Vynckt design verified against federation and club sources. Last reviewed June 2026.