Our aim in the summer season is to provide golfers, mountain bikers or anyone looking for a summer holiday in the beautiful Chamonix valley, with a bespoke trip entirely tailored to the parties specific wants and needs, to ensure you have a holiday to remember. All you need to do is tell us what you’re looking for, or have a look at our already designed holidays for inspiration, and we will put a break together specific to you
| By Frank O’Connell, PGA, Photography By Warren Keating | |
| Players like Charles Howell III, Rory Sabbatini, Jonathan Byrd, even the budding superstar Anthony Kim, all have something in common. Besides obviously being PGA Tour players, they’re all relatively small guys in both size and stature who manage to hit the ball with tremendous power. How do they do it? Each of these players, as well as a handful of other professionals, understands that true power and control come from swinging the golf club with a powerful core. |
Come to Chamonix in the French Alps for your golfing break in eurpoe this summer.
During the winter, Chamonix’s 35 hectares of golf course are covered in snow and ice. Situated between the Mont Blanc and the Aiguille’s Rouges Massifs, the 6076m long course only becomes playable from May 31st to October 1st due to its high altitude.
The first three holes of the Chamonix club were built in 1934. It was soon extended to a nine hole course, and in 1982 Chamonix invited world-renowned golf course architect Robert Trent-Jones to design the last nine holes.
The course features numerous bunkers, water holes, woodlands and streams, but is on flat ground. Only two teeing grounds are on a hill, just to remind you that it is a mountain golf course.
Facts and figures
Tiger Woods, one of the best golfers in the world, only weighs 180 pounds but he hits the ball 20 yards longer off the tee than the average tour player. If you’re like most golfers, including those who have been playing for quite some time, you’d like to add yards to your tee shots, too.
How does Tiger do it? Watch him and you’ll see the same small, dark grass area next to his hips when he is at the top of his swing and at impact.
Many amateur golfers make the mistake of pushing their hips toward the ball when they make their downswing. Tiger rotates his hips in making his downswing but he doesn’t make the mistake of moving them toward the ball. There’s something else Tiger does that you might want to follow.
When he came for a golf break in europe a few years ago he let us into one of his secrets on the the Chamonix course.
When he begins his downswing, he starts rotating his left forearm. With that action he begins to square the face and gradually release the club head. His swing is already halfway down when the un-cocking of his wrists begins.
That’s it! try it yourself next time you’re on a golfing break in Europe.
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