Matthieu Pavon's fiery season on the PGA Tour has galvanized French golfers…

The 2023-24 season of the DP World Tour ended on November 17 in Dubai with the “qualification” of Antoine Rozner for the 2025 PGA Tour. A brilliant epilogue which concludes an XXL exercise for French Golf, rich in three victories and numerous runners-up. For Pierre Pineau, one of the four promoted to the European Tour via the Challenge Tour, the explanation for this very clear recovery, among both boys and girls, is multiple. Even if Matthieu Pavon's triumph in January at Torrey Pines (Farmers Insurance Open) constitutes, according to him, the cornerstone of this improvement.

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Three victories on the DP World Tour (David Ravetto in the Czech Republic on August 18, Frédéric Lacroix in Denmark the following week, Julien Guerrier in Andalusia after nine play-off holes on October 27), two others on the Ladies European Tour (Perrine Delacour in Sweden on June 2, Celine Boutier in China on October 6, without forgetting Pauline Roussin-Bouchard et Nastasia Nadaudvictorious by team over the very lucrative Aramco Team Series), the year 2024 will undoubtedly remain one of the richest in the last fifteen years for French golf. Remember that twenty-three French people will, for example, have playing rights on the 2024-25 European Tour…

Present in Australia for the first two tournaments of the 2024-25 DP World Tour season thanks to its 20th place in the Road to Mallorca on the Challenge Tour 2024, Pierre Pineau has its explanation for this magnificent momentum.

The kids are structured, they know at 12 that they want to be professionals, they know that they have to do physical preparation, mental preparation, speak English…

Pierre Pineau

« The work carried out by the French Golf Federation but also by all coaches in France, and even in many clubs, is starting to pay offhe emphasizes. I see it with golf schools, especially with my father-in-law who is a pro (Editor’s note, Remy Bedu). It's not the same as it was ten years ago. The kids are structured, they know at 12 that they want to be pros, they know that they have to do physical preparation, mental preparation, speak English… The generation of all those who went to universities in the United States- United is bearing fruit. I am thinking here of Antoine (Rozner), to David (Ravetto), has Very Bastien (Editor’s note, qualified via the PQ3 of the European Cards)…”

The golfer of Vaudreuildriven by Guillaume Biaugeaudalso raises a factor which has certainly increased tenfold this desire to shine at the top of the leaderboards, triggered in the summer of 2023 by the triumph of Céline Boutier in Evian and confirmed last January by that of Matthew Pavonthe first Frenchman in over 100 years to win on the US Circuit…

« I think Matthew (Pavon) broke the deadlock with his victory over the PGA Tourhe confirms. Present all season at the top of the rankings of the FedEx Cupit helps to transcend oneself. And then there is a good atmosphere between us. On the Challenge Tour this year, there were small groups of French people who lifted everyone up… A good mix of generations. This year, there was almost a 15-year gap between the generation of Sébastien Gros and that of Oihan (Guillamoundeguy) and Martin (Covered). But that didn't stop us from getting along well. »

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