Water, a château, and the best of the Bière plain around it
Where the historic clubs near Paris play firm and dry, Cély plays bold and blue. The course, opened in 1990 to a Robert Trent Jones design, brings the American school to the Île-de-France's doorstep: water in play through much of the round, cascades and carries, generous fairways that flatter the drive and greens that collect the careless approach. And then there is the nineteenth hole to end all nineteenth holes — a genuine château, ringed by its moat, where you change in vaulted rooms and take lunch looking over the water. It is a course built for hosting, which is exactly how most people discover it: a member's invitation, a client day, a society outing. Arriving rested, on the minute and with someone else worrying about the car simply completes the picture.
Cély also anchors one of the finest small circuits south of Paris. Barbizon, the village of Millet and the pre-Impressionists, is minutes from the gates; the Château de Fontainebleau, UNESCO-listed and eight centuries deep, is about a quarter of an hour; Vaux-le-Vicomte, the château that taught Versailles its manners, roughly half an hour. The classic shape: morning round at Cély, lunch on the estate, one great house or the painters' studios in the afternoon, Paris for dinner. On day disposal the chauffeur waits at every stop, keeps a change of clothes and your clubs aboard, and the schedule flexes with your scorecard. Our Paris to Fontainebleau guide maps the wider day in detail.
For companies, Cély is one of the great venues of the southern crescent — golf days, incentive mornings, seminars in the château salons. Our event service runs several cars and vans under one booking: staggered pickups across Paris hotels or the airports, vehicles on standby through the golf and the dinner, one grouped return at night. And if your plans in the 77 run beyond the fairways — the heathland course at Fontainebleau, the forest, a regular Paris run — our Fontainebleau chauffeur service covers the whole bassin. For a tailored programme, talk to us directly.
