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The 95 players were welcomed at the clubhouse to collect their scorecards and enjoy the food truck to refuel before the round. The competition began at 1 pm on the varied and highly competitive course of the Golf Club de Genève. The format was a shotgun start with handicaps capped at 30. After the round, guests enjoyed drinks on the splendid terrace of the golf club restaurant, before a buffet dinner, the prize-giving and our traditional lotto.
Founded in 1922, the Golf Club de Genève is located in the municipality of Vandoeuvres at the top of the Cologny hillside. The current course was designed in 1973 by the famous architect Robert Trent Jones Senior in the exceptional wooded park of Bessinge. From 2016 to 2018, a complete renovation was carried out to a plan by Robert Trent Jones Junior. The first holes offer views of the city of Geneva, its Jet d’Eau and Lake Geneva. To the south, there is a breathtaking view of the Alps and Mont Blanc. Internationally renowned, the Golf Club de Genève has hosted the European Junior Championship in 1975, the Women’s World Amateur Championship in 1982 and several editions of the Swiss Open. Every year it hosts the Rolex Trophy, a major stop on the European Challenge Tour. The only 18-hole golf course in the canton of Geneva, the Golf Club de Genève is a private club open to visitors under certain conditions.
At the 2018 Devillard Golf Cup, we were delighted to welcome Raphaël de Sousa for a ‘beat the pro’ challenge! Every guest had the opportunity to take on Raphaël on hole 17.
Raphaël is part of the new Gest4Players team supported by Devillard. It is an innovative Swiss project launched by Hugo Nora, which aims to help professional golfers and junior amateurs with the management and logistics of their sporting and personal careers, to take them to the highest European and world level.
