Lacoste Ladies Open de France: a miraculously maintained 30th edition

The Lacoste Ladies Open de France will take place in 2020!

This is already a first victory in the midst of the covid-19 epidemic.

"The partners have shown their willingness to maintain the tournament to help the players who should have a good season of renewal on the LET, but the confinement has turned everything upside down," said Vincent Paris, director of the Golf du Médoc Resort.

In addition, we are fortunate to have a hotel on site with a lot of space, fully adaptable to health constraints. ”

The infrastructure was also affected by heavy flooding on May 11, 2020 ... the day of deconfinement!

“It was difficult for everyone's morale because for the reopening scheduled for May 11, a lot of work had to be done upstream on the course, the hotel, the restaurant, the clubhouse ... We evaluated damage to the buildings (the course did not suffer) and we quickly decided to do everything to reopen on July 15 in order to save the season.

This is what we managed to do, ”concluded Mr. Paris.

The Golf du Médoc Resort will therefore host the Lacoste Ladies Open de France for the third year in a row, the penultimate before the scheduled return to the Golf de Chantaco in 2022.

In the end, this is not a miracle, but simply the reward for the immense work accomplished by the Golf du Médoc Resort teams.

The biggest tournament of the year in France

While the five men's tournaments initially planned for the European Tour and the Challenge Tour have all been canceled in 2020, the Lacoste Ladies Open de France takes up the torch of the most important tournament of the year played in France!

The 30th edition of the Women's French Open (created in 1987 but absent from the calendar four times) will nevertheless be played in a special atmosphere in these times of the covid-19 epidemic.

All health measures will not prevent the seventy-eight participants, including seventeen French, from trying to succeed the American star Nelly Korda (absent this year).

Céline Herbin, the last tricolor winner in 2015, is present, unlike our two best players of the LPGA Tour, Céline Boutier and Perrine Delacour, entered on the Major of the ANA Inspiration last weekend.

Third last year, Joanna Klatten arrives with the same uncertainties as twelve months ago since she has not played for seven very long months. “I have already quit five months for injuries in my career, but I 've never spent seven months without a tournament, ”she recalled.

But his natural talent had allowed him to play for the win for two days in 2019, before snatching a good place on the podium behind Nelly Korda and Céline Boutier.

Valentine Derrey bows out

This Medoc week will also be the occasion for the French clan to salute the career of Valentine Derey.

The 33-year-old Parisian, winner of the Turkish Open 2014, a half-dozen events in the second European division and a university tournament in the United States in 2011, will bow out after the French Open.

If Derrey will be able to evolve without pressure, two Tricolors will arrive particularly in confidence.

Marseillaise Camille Chevalier arrives in Bordeaux after returning to a top 15 last weekend in Switzerland, sixteen months after her podium at La Reserva de Sotogrande.

Agathe Sauzon for her part has a great opportunity to shine in her national Open, since the Drômoise remains in a good third place two weeks ago at the Flumserberg Ladies Open counting for the second division (Letacess).

But the big favorite is quite simply the European number one, the Danish Emily Kristine Pedersen.

The 24-year-old Scandinavian remains on a title in the Czech Republic three weeks ago, followed by a new podium last weekend in Switzerland.

The last tournament of the season?

The last two tournaments before the end of the Ladies European Tour season scheduled for November remain very uncertain.

This Lacoste Ladies Open de France could well signal a premature end to the season.

One more reason to shine in Bordeaux!

The heat should be stifling on Friday and thunderstorms could disrupt the last lap, or even the podium like last season, when they showered in particular Grégory Havret, who came to present the trophy to the winner Nelly Korda!

Whether the umbrellas are out or not, among all the favorites still well hidden, the masks will fall this week at the Golf du Médoc for a special 30th edition that will remain in the memories of all the participants no matter what ... and particularly in that of Valentine Derrey!