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As the 2024-25 DP World season gets underway in Brisbane this week, Golf Planet presents to you all the French golfers competing at the highest level with their category of play as well as their exemption. Workforce review.
Lionel VELLA
Victor Perez
Category 2
Exemption end of 2026 (Rolex Series and WGC tournament winner)
The Tarbais, who managed to retain his full playing rights on the PGA Tour (82e of the FedEx Cup before the RSM Classic), is present during the next fortnight in Australia to compete in the BMW Australian PGA Championship as well as theISPS Handa Australian Open where three spots for The Open 2025 will be put into play. His world ranking (73rd as of November 17, 2024) ensures that he is currently at the start of the PGA Championship (May 15-18) at Quail Hollow (Caroline du Nord).
Julien Guerrier
Category 3
Exemption at the end of 2026 (Race to Dubai tournament winner with prize money greater than $2 million)
Winner of the Andalucia Masters on October 27, the Rochelais continued with the two DPWT play-offs in Abu Dhabi and to Dubai. 23rd in the 2023-24 Race, he has already validated his ticket for The Open at Royal Portrush (July 17-20).
Frédéric Lacroix
Category 3
Exemption at the end of 2026 (Race to Dubai tournament winner with prize money greater than $2 million)
The Racingman has just completed a very solid season after being mounted a year ago from Challenge Tour. Victorious on August 25 in Denmark, he had previously made a very solid start to his return to the elite by achieving three top 5s in three tournaments (5th in South African OpenI am 3 Ras Al Khaimah Championship and 4th in Bahrain Championship).
David Ravetto
Category 3
Exemption at the end of 2026 (Race to Dubai tournament winner with prize money greater than $2 million)
Also victorious in August (in the Czech Republic), the student of Benoit Ducoulombier did even harder than his colleague from RCF La Boulie above since it came from PQ3 of European Maps with a modest category 18. This success in Prague opens up much more tempting prospects for him. 50th of the Race, he will be at Down Bank Golf Challenge (December 5-8) then at Leopard Creek (December 12-15) and finally to Maurice (December 19-22) before breaking with the end-of-year celebrations…
Ryder Cup objective for Matthieu Pavon
Matthew Pavon
Category 3
Exemption at the end of 2025 (Race to Dubai tournament winner with prize money greater than $2 million)
In possession of a full category on the PGA Tour until the end of 2026 thanks to his victory at Farmers Insurance Openthe Bordeaux player, 17th in the FedEx Cupwill favor the US Circuit in 2025, and in particular all Signature Events . He will nevertheless be in Abu Dhabi at the very beginning of January to take part in the Team Cup with the Continental European team, a dress rehearsal for the Ryder Cup has Bethpage (New York) scheduled for September 26-28. The Frenchman, who will once again play the four Majors in 2025, actually has one of his main objectives.
Antoine Rozner
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
Like Matthieu Pavon and Victor Perez, Antoine Rozner will progress on the PGA Tour in 2025 thanks to his 15th place in the Race obtained after taking 3rd place (tied) in the DP World Tour Championship. Like Julien Guerrier, he is now qualified for The Open in Portrush (Northern Ireland).
Romain Langasque
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
Obviously disappointed not to have secured one of the ten spots on the PGA Tour at the end of this season where he took 22nd place in the Race, Romain Langasque will be in South Africa to play the Nedbank Golf Challenge then theAlfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek. He will then take a break before resuming at Hero Dubaï Desert Classic (January 16-19), first Rolex Series of the 2024-25 European Tour season.
Ugo Coussaud
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
Like Frédéric Lacroix and David Ravetto, Ugo Coussaudfrom the Challenge Tour, also improves his playing category for 2023-24. As he said at the end of his last round in Dubai last week, he would like to play a Major tournament in 2025. In the meantime, he will be in South Africa, at Nedbank and Leopard Creek, before taking a well-deserved rest.
A better category for Tom Vaillant
Adrien Saddier
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
64th in the Race, the Haut-Savoyard, present in Abu Dhabi for the first Play-off of the DPWT, failed to qualify for the final where only the top 50 (top 52 in this case) were invited. Still looking for his first success on the Tour, he is in the field for the BMW Australian PGA Championship this week in Brisbane before then continuing in Melbourne with the ISPS Handa Australian Open.
Jeong Weon Ko
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
He is also in Australia for the start of the 2024-25 season. The student ofAlain Alberti et Raphaël Jacquelin finished 78th in the Race with 3 top 10 finishes. He was first reserve in Abu Dhabi. This is his third season at the highest level.
Tom Vaillant
Category 10
Exemption end of 2025 (Top 110 of the Breed adjusted according to affiliated members (top 114))
90th in the Race, the Riviera goes from category 15 to category 10, which will allow him to play all the Rolex Series in 2025. Absent since his missed cut in South Korea, we should see him again in the last tournaments of the calendar year (South Africa and Mauritius).
Julien Brun
Category 10a
Exemption end of 2025 (medical exemption)
Injured in the left wrist, the Antibois resident in Prague, Czech Republic, is convalescing before a recovery planned for the first quarter of 2025. He benefits here from a medical exemption for 14 tournaments on the DP World Tour.
Benjamin Hébert finds the sun again after two years on the floor below
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Category 10a
Exemption end of 2025 (medical exemption)
For mental health reasons, the Basque decided to “take a break” in August. Under medical exemption, we should see him again at the start of the year. He has already announced that he will be in Bahrain (January 30-February 2). And perhaps even before, near Ras Al Khaimah (January 23-26).
Alexander Levy
Category 15
Exemption fin 2025 (Top 20 Challenge Tour 2024)
Relegated at the end of 2023 for the first time in his career to the 2nd European division, Alexander Levy bounced back immediately thanks to an excellent season (six top 10, two 2nd places) punctuated by a 12th place at Road. Best Frenchman, he could, who knows, be at the start of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic (January 16-19). Tom Vaillant, who finished in the same place on the Road at the end of 2023, entered the field at the last moment…
Benjamin Hebert
Category 15
Exemption fin 2025 (Top 20 Challenge Tour 2024)
After two seasons on the Challenge Tour, Benjamin Hebert37, finds the elite. Currently in Morocco to refine his recovery, the Briviste, 13th in the Road, is announced at Leopard Creek then in Mauritius, the last two tournaments of the calendar year. Like Alexander Levy, his presence at theEmirates Golf Club for the Hero Dubai Desert Classic is being considered.
Martin Couvrera
Category 15
Exemption fin 2025 (Top 20 Challenge Tour 2024)
Turned professional at the end of summer 2023, Martin Couvrera did not delay in achieving the objective that he had set for himself at the start of the 2024 season on the Challenge Tour: the DP World Tour in 2025. His seven top 10s, including a 7th place in the final in Mallorca, prove that the Riviera already has shoulders broad enough to face the highest level.
Bastien Amat doesn't want to waste time
Pierre Pineau
Category 15
Exemption fin 2025 (Top 20 Challenge Tour 2024)
After a week of work in Orlando (Florida) with his coach, Guillaume Biaugeaud, Pierre Pineau20th on the Road, has joined Australia where he will play the first two tournaments of the 2024-25 season co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia. Not entering the reduced field at the Nedbank Golf Challenge (60 players), the golfer from Vaudreuil will be at Leopard Creek and Maurice. He will thus get his season off to a flying start with four of the first five tournaments on the Tour calendar!
Very Bastien
Category 18
Exemption at the end of 2025 (Top 20 of the Cards Final)
Fourth in the Global Amateur Pathway Ranking, professional career in the process, Very Bastien22, had won a game category on the Challeneg Tour. Before finishing 7th in PQ3 of the European Cards. A time allocated to compete for the Cards of Korn Ferry Tour (Dec. 12-15), the University of New Mexico alumnus will be in Australia next week at the ISPS Handa Australian Open…
Clement Sordet
Category 18
Exemption at the end of 2025 (Top 20 of the Cards Final)
Having finished 167th in the Race, Clement Sordet had to resolve to face PQ2 then PQ3 of the European Cards. A marathon which ended in success since the Lyonnais based on the Côte d'Azur took 9th place in Tarragona (Spain) a week ago. We should see him again on the Tour near Mauritius, just before Christmas…
Felix Mory
Category 19
Exemption end of 2025 (players ranked 115th to 130th in DPTW, players ranked 126th to 150th FedEx Cup, players ranked 23rd to 32nd in Challenge Tour)
Despite a 65 (-6) slammed in the last round of PQ3 des Cartes, the Northerner fell one shot short of the top 20 qualifier. He had already come close to the climb in Mallorca, taking 26th place on the Road (the first 22 validated their right to play on the DPWT). This category 19 will, however, allow him to make a few appearances at the highest level…
Sébastien Gros, the big comeback…
Robin Sciot Siegrist
Category 19
Exemption end of 2025 (players ranked 115th to 130th in DPTW, players ranked 126th to 150th FedEx Cup, players ranked 23rd to 32nd in Challenge Tour)
37th of the Cards, the left-hander of St-Nom-la-Bretèche will, like Félix Mory, be able to play a few tournaments on the DP World Tour in 2025. But his main objective will obviously be to integrate the 2026 European Tour with a more important category via the Challenge Tour 2025.
Sébastien Gros
Category 21
Exemption at the end of 2025 (players having made the six rounds of the European Cards final but having finished higher than 20th place)
At 35 years old, Sébastien Grosone of the three acolytes of the Tontons Golfeurs, once again sees the light at the end of the tunnel. Having left the European Tour in 2018, this year he regains full playing rights on the Challenge Tour (59th on the Road) and a small category on the DP World Tour. He too has set himself the objective of returning to the European Tour in 2026…
Nathan Legendre
Category 21
Exemption at the end of 2025 (players having made the six rounds of the European Cards final but having finished higher than 20th place)
70th in PQ3 of the European Cards, Nathan Legendre22 years old, resident of theAJ Coaching dear to Alain Alberti and Raphaël Jacquelin, will have the same playing rights as Seb Gros on the Challenge Tour. And he will do a few runs on the DPWT, if he wants…
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