The French Golf Federation did not appreciate Mathilde Panot's shortcuts regarding those playing the little white ball in a message published on social networks on February 4.
Mathilde Panot called on her supporters to vote in order to counter the “rich”, “racist” and “golfers” whom she associated without explaining why.
The president of the FFG, Pascal Grizot, therefore sent a letter to the elected representative of France Insoumise to express his dissatisfaction, describing her publication as “
gratuitous and unfounded attacks.”
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Here is part of that text:
“We were surprised – and let’s say it quite shocked – to see that you equate golf players with categories of populations that you do not seem to hold in great esteem. We are referring to the posters which carry the slogans “racists vote…”, “rich people vote…”, “golfers vote…”.
You seem to ignore the sociology of our sport, the practice of which continues to become popular and now brings together more than 600,000 players in France, of whom 446,000 are licensed with the ffgolf.
Golf will be as widely practiced in France in 2023 as handball, basketball and even Judo. “Friendly” disciplines which do not seem to be subject to the same denigration on your part.
[...] The time has perhaps come to organize a meeting between the representatives of your parliamentary group and our Federation, in order to develop the understanding that you can have of our sport,”
wrote the president of the FFG considering the message from the president of the LFI group to the National Assembly “demagogic and unjustified.”