Château des Vigiers launches Pro-am for club golfers

Château des Vigiers, near Bergerac, in France,have signed a deal to present a new Pro-Am tournament, the Saint-Emilion Crus Classés Trophy, to be held on May 31 to June 2, 2013

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Château des Vigiers

Château des Vigiers, near Bergerac, in France,have signed a deal with The Association of Saint- Emilion Grand Crus Classés to present a new Pro-Am tournament, the Saint-Emilion Crus Classés Trophy, to be held on May 31 to June 2, 2013.

The event is designed to bring together the worlds of golf and gastronomy. Throughout the competition weekend participants will also be able to discover some of the best Saint-Emilion Grand Crus Classés wines.

At the prizegiving ceremony and cocktail dinner on June 2 the Association of Saint-Emilion Grands Crus Classés will award the winner of the Stableford competition a custom-made leather case that will hold 18 bottles of their famous wines.  

Four-star Château des Vigiers Golf & Country Club dates from 1597 and is in the Dordogne Périgord region of south west France, half an hour from Bergerac airport and an hour from Bordeaux airport.

All participants, including non-playing partners are given full use of all the facilities at Château des Vigiers including tennis, pool and gym. There will be a companions' excursion on the Saturday to the historic town of Saint-Emilion including a picnic, wine tasting and guided tour.

The cost per person is €845 with non- golfers paying €645. To enter go to http://www.vigiers.com/the-saint-emilion-crus-classes-trophy/

Roderick Easdale
Roderick Easdale

Contributing Writer Roderick is the author of the critically acclaimed comic golf novels, Summer At Tangents, which was one of Country Life magazine's Books of The Year for 2024 and nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and Crime Wave At Tangents. Golf courses and travel are Roderick’s particular interests. He writes travel articles and general features for the magazine and website and compiles the magazine's crossword. He is a member of Trevose and has played golf in around two dozen countries. Cricket is his other main sporting love. He is also the author of five non-fiction books, four of which are still in print: The Novel Life of PG Wodehouse; The Don: Beyond Boundaries; Wally Hammond: Gentleman & Player and England’s Greatest Post-War All Rounder.