The layout of the Orléans-Donnery golf course, between a trip to the forest and a more recent and more open return, is varied, technical and fun in all seasons. Born in 1952, at the behest of American soldiers based in Orléans after the Second World War, Orléans-Donnery golf still retains some traces of it, such as its club house, created by and for army soldiers. It is said that golf legend Arnold Palmer, then a young American soldier stationed in France and still an amateur, would have given his opinion on the plans for the future course. Given the length of the pars 5, one might actually think it went exactly like this. More seriously, the arrangement of the initial nine holes is the work of a colonel of the NATO forces stationed in Orléans. He had managed to convince the owner of the castle, herself a golfer, of the interest in building a course on her land. Another story tells that the fairway of hole 1, ex hole 6, an endless hole, would have been thought to be used as an emergency landing strip in case of problems in the nearby American air base. Opened twenty years ago, the second nine holes were built by Olivier Van der Vinck, also author of the Cheverny golf course.