Golf Holidays for Couples in French Riviera

The genius of the Riviera as a couples’ destination is that the golf and the not-golf are minutes apart. While one of you tees off, the other isn’t stranded — they’re somewhere wonderful, and you meet back up before lunch is over.

Picture a morning at Domaine de Saint Endreol Golf & Spa near Le Muy: the golfer takes on Saint Endreol’s dramatic gorge holes while their partner unwinds in the resort’s spa, then you both find each other on the terrace. Or base yourselves at Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort at Tourrettes, where the two championship courses — the Château and the Riou — sit alongside one of the most lauded spas in the south of France. One of you plays 18 holes through umbrella pines; the other has a full morning of treatments, pool and Provençal sun. Nobody compromises.

For something more intimate and design-led, Le Mas Candille in the hilltop village of Mougins makes a romantic boutique base — perfumed gardens, a Shiseido spa and Michelin-level dining — with the courses an easy drive away. It’s the kind of place you choose when the holiday is as much about the two of you as it is about the round.

The Riviera’s golf is genuinely good — not a token nine holes bolted onto a beach break, but courses that reward a proper golfer and give them something to recount over dinner. We can weave any of these into your week:

• Saint Endreol (Le Muy) — a wild, memorable layout cut through a rocky gorge, full of risk-and-reward tee shots and water.
• Terre Blanche — Château & Riou (Tourrettes) — two faultlessly conditioned championship courses, the pinnacle of resort golf on the coast.
• Esterel at Valescure and the historic Valescure course (Saint-Raphaël) — mature, pine-lined and full of character, the latter one of the oldest courses on the Riviera.
• Claux Amic (Grasse) — set in the hills above the perfume capital, with views down toward the sea on a clear day.

If only one of you plays, a couple of rounds across the week is usually the sweet spot — enough to feel like a proper golf trip, with plenty of time left for the two of you together.

The non-golfing half of the trip is no afterthought here — it’s a holiday in its own right. Between rounds, the Riviera hands you the Mediterranean’s prettiest stretch of coast: the beaches and old harbour of Saint-Raphaël, the boutiques and galleries of Mougins, the perfume houses of Grasse, and rosé country a short drive inland through Provence.

The spas at Terre Blanche, Le Mas Candille and Saint Endreol are destinations in themselves, so a partner can happily spend a golf morning being thoroughly looked after. We’ll fold in the bits that make it feel like yours — a long lunch with a sea view, a vineyard tasting, a market morning, a dinner booked for two — so the week flows without either of you lifting a finger to plan it.

Every Golf Planet Holidays trip is tailor-made and enquiry-based: you tell us your dates, your hotel leanings and how much golf you’d like, and we build and price the whole thing around the two of you, billed in GBP, from £495 per person.

You’re fully protected, too. We’re ATOL Protected, and your money is held in trust with PTS until you’ve travelled — so your deposit and balance are safe right up to the moment you arrive. Flights are an ATOL-protected add-on to your ground arrangements, which makes us a straightforward single point of contact for US and long-haul couples who want flights, hotel and tee times handled together rather than juggled across three booking sites.

If you’d rather travel in company, we also run hosted and escorted group tours from time to time — a relaxed way to meet other golfing couples while still having your own room, your own pace and your own evenings. Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll take it from there.