Going for Golf

Gloria Golf Resort

There are the Old and New courses of the luxurious Gloria complex (there is a third nine-hole course, the Verde) having played the outer and inner nine of each. Michel Gayon has brought a Gallic tease to both in his impish use of water, and five par-fives and five par-threes also lift them out of the usual. I went through a sleeve of balls in no time, usually by under-estimating distance, most memorably at the island green of the Old’s 165-yard 17th.