We will never know what the course would have looked like if the club house had been built between holes 16 and 17, which was one of the early options, because the Gland village council, at its last session in 1986, agreed that the present building – Villa Prangins – could be used.

As a result, members now have a magnificent club house with an interesting history. Over ten months, the exterior of the building was fully restored and the interior spaces totally redesigned: the result would not have displeased Prince Jérome Napoleon, whose footsteps can still be heard if you listen carefully.

The new club house was inaugurated in 1987. The interior designer Jacques Grange chose a deliberately rich style full of blended colours.

Twenty years later, the designer Jean Grangé introduced a new look with the emphasis on allowing external nature to “come indoors” and – together with the interior decorator Luc Lagier – linked the redesign to the history of the Villa Prangins by giving each major room the name of a famous person who had lived there in the past.

The restaurant is now called the Restaurant Jérome Napoléon.

The main lounge is named after the Habsburg Empress Zita.

The Brasserie reminds us of Louis Say, the pioneer of the sugar industry.

On the upper floor, the bridge and meeting rooms are named in memory of Emperor Charles I of Austria and Baron Guiger of Prangins.

Our club house thus brings together the past and present.