Golf Club du Domaine Impérial

Owned in the 17th and 18th centuries by Barons Guiger de Prangins, the Imperial Estate was acquired in 1859 by Prince Jérôme Napoléon, son of Jérôme Bonaparte and first cousin of Emperor Napoleon III. To build his house baptized Villa Prangins, he called in 1862, Emile Trélat, professor at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts and founder of the School of architecture in Paris.

At the time, the medieval square turret to the southwest served as an observatory. A spacious loggia was to filter the light in front of the princely chamber located to the north-east. A veranda, open on the lake, occupied the entire length of the facade cut out, in its center, by an emblazoned pediment surmounted by a large fireplace, central room of the large living room where, today, it is so good to cool off or warm up at the 19th hole.

After the fall of the Second Empire, the Prince no longer had the means to keep all of his property. He sells part of it to Charles Lucas, a good English friend. It is, undoubtedly, to this entrepreneur that are due the few tees and greens discovered before the construction of the current golf course. Charles Lucas returned to England in 1885 and succeeded Albert, Duke of Broglie, then Say, the famous Parisian sugar emperor, ten years later.

Jules Couchoud, Lausanne master printer, bought it in 1910 to restore it with all the fittings and additions dear at the time, and immediately resell it to Ashton Clarke, a wealthy Parisian rentier. In 1919, she received Charles 1st Emperor of Austria and deposed King of Hungary, Empress Zita and their many children took refuge there for three years.

From 1925, the residence was occupied by Baron Walter d''Orville and, in 1940, by Pierre-Marie Durand. In 1942, in the midst of the world war, its inventory was carried out with a view to expropriation for military reasons. The Imperial Domain is crossed right through, by an anti-tank defense line, in the "toblérones" style. Even today, these military remains are visited by lovers of military works.

When the war was over, Villa Prangins changed hands again. It was Ernest Morf who acquired it in 1953 and his son Victor inherited it in 1971. In 1984, Victor Morf sold the property to the SA du Golf du Domaine Impérial, which already controlled the plain up to the Route Suisse (on the commune of Gland) and the wooded area surrounding the Promenthouse (in the commune of Prangins).

This allows the current layout of the club''s facilities and it is on October 14, 1985 that the groundwork is given to create the course imagined by Pete Dye, relayed on site by Russell Talley, after other drawings proposed by Alliss , Thomas, Mancinelli, Jones or Baker.