Who is going to be the first to rate this course?

[Bob_Huntley]

See:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aOF8Wxg1LaJQ


Bob

[Eric Smith]

I'll put my best man Kalen on this one -- he'll find it...

[Scott Warren]

This - apparently - is a picture of it

[Joe Bausch]

Can somebody find it on Google Maps and post an aerial?

[Scott Warren]

Have been looking on Google Maps, following the L'Argent River. No luck yet. I will be in the area next week and will make it my mission to find out as much as I can!

[Eric Smith]

Have been looking on Google Maps, following the L'Argent River. No luck yet. I will be in the area next week and will make it my mission to find out as much as I can!

ahhh, to be the global golfer! 

[Kalen Braley]

Eric,

You naughty boy, you knew I couldn't resisit. 

I'm guessing this is it based on the clues from the article.

The clubhouse and facilities look to be pretty nice with several pools, and the course not half bad either.   

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Vidauban,+france&sll=37.09024,-112.324219&sspn=33.435463,80.244141&ie=UTF8&ll=43.395693,6.467772&spn=0.007593,0.022295&t=k&z=16

[Anthony Gray]

  Kalen,

  Never leave. You are a fountain of information.

  Tony Offtopic

[Scott Warren]

I thought it might have been that one! I'm counting 20-odd holes?

Eric: No golf on this trip, sadly.

[Kalen Braley]

Here is the aerial from Google Earth...

[Eric Smith]

What was that 3 or 4 minutes Kalen?

No one can touch KB.

[Kalen Braley]

From first reading the article to finding the course took about 10 minutes...sorry I was slow!   

[Mark Woodger]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Vidauban&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=czFWSpjmDaaNjAelvsjlAg&ll=43.396114,6.467686&spn=0.01029,0.015965&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

i think this is a google maps link to the course.

[DMoriarty]

I give it a 4.

[Garland Bayley]

I give it a 4.

I understand a Michelin 4 is very very good indeed!

[Ed Oden]

Consenting to a puff piece with obvious clues that take minutes to locate seems like a strange way to achieve anonimity.  I guess it takes marketing to stay out of the public eye!

[cary lichtenstein]

I have played it, but my host swore me to secrey. Their policy is that if anyone writes anything about it, the member can be expelled.

[Jason McNamara]

Consenting to a puff piece with obvious clues that take minutes to locate seems like a strange way to achieve anonimity.  I guess it takes marketing to stay out of the public eye!

"We aren't looking for members, but if you know ten of us already, we'll add three members at five million a throw."

[Kalen Braley]

I have played it, but my host swore me to secrey. Their policy is that if anyone writes anything about it, the member can be expelled.

Cary,

Does this mean you can neither confirm nor deny the aerial I posted is said course? 

[Ulrich Mayring]

If you're in the area and they don't let you in, then there's Barbaroux nearby (a Dye/Dye course). Bring 5 hours, though

Ulrich

[Mark Woodger]

I have played it, but my host swore me to secrey. Their policy is that if anyone writes anything about it, the member can be expelled.

Can you private message all 1500 of us? 

[Ben Cowan-Dewar]

Bob,
Perhaps not surprisingly, Golf World (U.K.) already has. I remember it holding a spot near the top-10 on the continent of Europe.

[Garland Bayley]

Bob,
Perhaps not surprisingly, Golf World (U.K.) already has. I remember it holding a spot near the top-10 on the continent of Europe.

There you go Cary. The cat is already out of the bag. Enquiring minds want to know, is it more than a Doak 3?