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| | World Golf: Normandy golf |
 | | Houlgate (6,309 yards, par 72): Just inland from Gonneville sur Mer, top British designers Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas cleverly contrasted wind-swept hill and bosky valley in the grounds of the Chateau de Beuzeval. |
 | | New auto-routes from the cross-channel ports or from Paris have further reduced journey times to the invasion beaches, and the historic cities and towns of Rouen, Deauville, Caen, Bayeux, Falaise, Mont St Michel and Honfleur, from which Samuel de Champlain set out to colonise Canada. |
 | | In spite of the tour success of Jean van de Velde, Thomas Levet and Raphael Jacquelin, there are little more than 300,000 French golfers in a country almost twice the size of Great Britain - which boasts nearer four million regular players. |
| www.worldgolf.com /features/normandy-golf-538.htm (2003 words) |
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