December 2020 I decided not to return to France to train for a month in Florida. It's the first time in my life that I won't spend the end of year celebrations with my family, but you have to know how to make sacrifices and that I know how to do...
I was welcomed by the family of Thomas Levet and I was able to train with Thomas. It was really cool and super interesting. He told me a lot of anecdotes and gave a lot of advice of all kinds. I thank them with all my heart for this super warm welcome.
I took the opportunity to play the South Beach International Amateur before Christmas.
but 4 months without real competitions it feels...
There were good and bad on a go and on a return. And above all, playing for more than 6 hours becomes unbearable. There really need to be much stricter rules for playing time and for ALL the referees in the world to enforce them...
The South Beach is one of the 10 biggest tournaments in the world.
A 33rd place therefore remains correct even if there was room to do much better...
A rest day on the 25th and I continued with the Orlando International Amateur.
Despite 2 Eagles in the first round, too many small mistakes I finished in a frustrating 16th place.

I therefore end the year without having missed a CUT and in 1st place in the French amateur ranking.

October - November 2020: The University competitions of my conference, the PAC12, have all been cancelled. Our coaches therefore decided to make us play despite everything, 12 qualifying rounds under the same conditions as the tournaments we should have done. It also establishes the hierarchy of the team.
I play 68.2 (Par 72) average, my golf is there...

October 2020: I have been negotiating with my university for a month so that they and the NCAA accept that I play the Gounouilhou trophy with My club Terre Blanche. A few days before I have the green light but as I will miss the start of the new school year, I have to take the online classes and once the competition is over I have to return to Eugene. Well, as my classes had resumed, I could not do the required homework on time, but everything was back to normal when I returned to Oregon on October 9…
You already know the result!!
A qualifying victory then a victory in the final against Bussy.
What an experience!!
What emotions, what pride to bring to our club this first historic victory.
THE DREAM TEAM
Paul MARGOLIS
Tom GUÉANT
Tom SANTA
Rodolphe DE HEER
Carl BERTRAND
Camille BORDONE
Victor SMRCKA
Dylan ALLEN (blocked in usa)
CAPTAIN: Stephan POLLET (Replacing Jean Marie Casella)
Coach: Vincent Jouhaud and Kelly Sotière
I had no idea that a golf competition could bring so much joy and emotion to people. It freaked me out to see people cry. For example, Jean Marie Casella (director of Terre Blanche) who is convalescing, could not be with us, was crying so much on the phone that he could no longer speak... A huge THANK YOU to Pierre Yves Gouin (president of the AS de Terre Blanche) and his wife for being present all week Mayne to encourage and pamper us.

This proves that it is not necessary to be an "old" club to be a BIG club, no offense to some...

You can see the replay of the final here.

September 2020 : 3 days before the individual European championships planned in France at the Medoc golf course, we are told that they are canceled...
Definitely not a year like the others...
I am selected in the French team for the European Team Championships (European Amateur Team Championship) in Holland from September 9th to 12th. It is a reduced formula. A single qualifying round and then matches with a single foursome and 3 MP.
We finish 4th in qualifying then lose the first 2 matches. I was in the lead in my matches but I had to share them. And I bring victory point to the team for the 7th place finish. Little satisfaction, it's been 2 and a half years since I lost a match play.

And proof this year is crazy 10 days after canceling the Individual European Championships, we are told that they will finally take place but in Zurich from 22 to 25 September at the Golf & Country Club Zürich. So I continue and on my way again to Switzerland. I discover an incredible journey. For me one of the most golfing in Europe. After 2 solid laps the 3rd will be less so, all the more unfortunate as it is the only day when he was scoreable with fairly easy flags. The fourth round is played for me in dantesque conditions on the last 5 holes which are also the most difficult of the course. but I score under par and I finish in 11th place for my first participation in this competition where we normally find the best Europeans…

August 2020: Registered for the Brabazon Trophy I decide a few days before not to go because it would make me chain 4 tournaments in 1 month. I am in Switzerland when the English government decides that all people arriving from France have a mandatory fortnight. I planned to see my three coaches and play the British Amateur (The Amateur Championship)… Phew, I am told that this does not concern people who have been in Switzerland for more than 2 weeks, which is my case. So we take the car, we fill up just before the Swiss border and we drive to Calais. We hesitate to take the tunnel or the ferry. The ferry being less expensive we take it, pass the French customs then English and there, the customs officer tells us that as we come from Switzerland without having stopped we do not have fortnight to make. That's good because the next day Mayn I have training with my Coach Pete Cowen. 5 hours face to face with such a trainer, pure happiness. We hit the road again to go the next day to see my putting coach Phil Kenyon. Then ditto the next day, Mayn I go to see my Physical Coach Dr McGregor. I have a huge change to have around me it's 3 coaches considered to be among the best in the world who coach some of the best in the world...
As I have to play the British Amateur I go several times to the Royal Birkdale Golf Club where the competition will take place. I am on the putting green when I receive a call from the R&A who organizes the competition telling me that I cannot play the game. Indeed he decrees in agreement with the English government that as I took the ferry I may have come into contact with infected people… If I had taken the tunnel it was good… Ubuesque situation, incomprehensible!! I have been in England for 5 days, I slept in 5 different hotels, I saw and worked with my coaches, I got checked by the police and like the customs officer they confirmed to me that I had not quarantine to do... but I'm told no you can't play the 2nd most important competition in the world...
I have no choice but to accept it and I go back to see Pete Cowen the next day Mayn… Then I go home. 3600 km by car in 1 week Mayne not to play THE competition… hard to swallow anyway.

 

July 2020: 5 days of federal training at National golf, then another month without competition, at the end of July heading to Austria for the internationals. 13 hours by car. A course on a hill and in the woods. After a bad night due to the heat, I had a bad 2nd lap but still finished in 9th place with scores of -5 +4 -1 -4 or -6 total.
This is still my 4th top 10 in a row.

June 2020: Back in France at the end of March, I took the opportunity to look for the batteries because when you've never experienced it you don't realize how intense the days are in American universities, especially with a Major like mine (Maths & Computer Sciences) which requires a lot of work. I took the opportunity to work on my physique by improvising dumbbells with tires... The day of the resumption I was at 8 a.m. at the Charmeil golf course on the 1st tee with Thierry Vercueil who will accompany me in a lot of games afterwards. Always a treat to play with you Thierry. Thank you for everything. My charts between -6 and -10 for more than a month show that the job was well done…
I also went to train in My club Terre Blanche. It really is a place that I love. I feel very good there and that's where I want to live and train. With the team we had a match against Nîmes Campagne, a superb team with a very good state of mind. Obviously we won but it was hooked, in any case we all had a good time.
At the end of June, I went to play the Olivier Barras Memorial in Cran Montana. The field of pro players was quite strong since many players from the challenge tour were present. Despite a few tactical errors and a very average putting I finished 3rd amateur (scores - 2 -1 -1) and 9th overall. Small satisfaction, I finish first French in any category so ahead of the French pros.

March 2020: Following this, I played the Bandon Dunes Championship on the Pacific course. I understand why it is ranked among the most beautiful golf courses in the world. It's an incredible link. After 3 cards of 73 - 68 - 71 I finished 7th ex only 4 moves from the winner, which makes a 2nd Top 10 in a row.(See the retransmission) and my 3rd team!!
Unfortunately, there were 4 tournaments left and I felt victory was within reach, but the Coronavirus stopped everything.

The COLLEGE golf season IS STOPPED for the first time in its history!!

Really balls, this virus is depriving me of what I love most, golf competition.

 

February 2020: With the Oregon team we went to Hawaii to launch our season and participate in one of the biggest tournaments of the year The Amer Ari Invitational. Again, the perfect big game but not the putting so still mid-ranking.

Then we move on to a competition south of Los Angeles, the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate where finally the putting returns at least the first day with 10 birdies and a double I take out a card of -8 or 64. A big wind the second round and despite a map at +2 I stay in the lead.

A last lap in par and I finished 3rd at -6 of this great competition and my team finished 5th, a good result for this young team!

January 2020: I am invited to play The Partiot All America. I experienced one of my most moving golf competitions there. Indeed we are associated with a soldier who died in operation. There are many ceremonies and a perfect organization. My big game is top but my putting completely absent I finish in the middle of the ranking of this high level competition.

 

August 2019: From August 13 to 18, I'm taking part in the tournament "The Boys Amateur Under 18 Championship" at Saunton East and West courses in the South/West of England. A first place in the first round of qualifying with a -8, broken course record and a broken driver's head on the 17.
The second round is much more complicated in climatic conditions that have become apocalyptic (wind and rain) and a replacement driver's head from the proshop, I return a card of (+5) i.e. -3 on both rounds and finish calmly in fourth place of qualifications. Note I am at -10 at the start of the 12th, without any bogey on 29 holes despite the non-stop rain and gusts of wind at more than 60 km/h but the referees will put a lot of pressure on us because we have 3 holes of delay...
I play in the 32nd match-play final, the English Oscar Doran whom I beat 5&4. The next morning Mayn in 16th, I beat another Englishman 5&4.
In the afternoon, I play the Estonian Kevin Christopher Jegers and beat him 2up.
In the quarter-finals, I got rid of the Englishman George Holland (considered English n°2) and continued my journey by beating another Englishman Barclay Brown (n°1 English) in the semi-finals 2&1.
I play the final Sunday, August 18 on the "East" course against the Swedish Wilmer Ederö over 36 holes.
At the end of the 1st lap, I lead 2 up to then be led 2 down at the start of the 17th of the 2nd lap. I win the last two holes to start a play-off. A single hole will be enough and a birdie for me to win this very tough game after 37 holes and with inclement weather and gusts of 70 km/h.

The last French victory dates back to 1960 with Patrick Cros. The last final of a French player occurred in 1983 with the defeat of Marc Pendariès against once again a certain José Maria Olazabal. This victory allows me to be invited to play the British amateur 2020 as well as the final of the qualifications of The Open 2020. I am ranked 139th in the World Adult Amateur Ranking (WAGR).

Nice text by Mr François Illouz

"Tom the GIANT!!!
Tom Guéant made a sensational entry into the history of French golf by winning in the playoff what must be considered the Under-18 World Championship.
For 58 years, all the best French players have tried it, including the author of these lines, without success. The way in which Tom Guéant took hold of the British Boys is that of the future very great. Victories in the playoffs, mornings of an ounce of success will give him the confidence necessary to achieve new great performances. With this victory, he gains the certainty of being able to play the British Amateur next year and a spot in the final qualifications of the British Open. Beautiful challenges in perspective that Tom will undoubtedly be able to take up!
The determination of Tom Guéant and his entourage, as well as the work carried out with his coaches, whom he did not fail to thank, were rewarded in the most brilliant way. The next 3 years that he will spend at the University of Oregon will allow Tom to cross new thresholds that will lead him into the world elite. France seems to have a most promising champion.
With my admiring congratulations, I wish Tom Guéant the best future in this golf that we are so passionate about."

 

 

 

 

 

July 2019: I continue with the 120th Biarritz Cup from 11 to 14 July on the Golf du Phare.
In 1983, José Maria Olazabal won this competition. Over four rounds, I play four times under par 67,66,64,66 or -13 total (par 69). Tied with a Spaniard at the start of the 18th, this one hits an 8m putt, I close to the hole with a 5m putt...
The victory therefore goes to the Spaniard Asier Aguirre (-14) with four birdies on the last four holes, I finish second (-13) and the biarrot Antoine Auboin at -11 is on the third e all in front of a crowd of around 300 people.
Unforgettable for me!
An experience that will serve me a few weeks later...

In the lead at the start of the 16th...

 

More than 300 spectators...

 

Another very nice 2nd place

June 2019: 2 days after returning from the University of Oregon, with an excellent 3.75/4 college GPA (equivalent to 18.75/20), I am participating in the 55th Olivier Barras Memorial in Crans-sur-Sierre (Switzerland) from 25 to 27 June 2019. A competition in which neo-pros from different backgrounds take part: Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand, Slovenia and Montenegro. A total of 57 professional players out of 129 participants.
Despite the 30 hours of travel, the 9 hours of jet lag and the first severe summer heat, I played the first two rounds 65 and 67, i.e. -10 (by 71), and I finished the third round in the par to position myself on the second e of the podium.
Only the first amateur is qualified to play the Omega Masters in September.
Note that the first PRO finishes in 4th place at - 6, he is also qualified.

The famous hole 7, wood 3, 260m to the carry, 1m from the mast, Eagle...

January 2019: My best wishes for health and happiness to my friends, supporters and supporters.

 

September 2018 :Leaving for the University of Oregon 3 weeks late because of a visa that took too long to arrive...
A new life begins at just 17 years old. I am the youngest college golfer in the United States.

 

June 2018: Test of the baccalaureate S SI (engineering science) won with the mention Very Good at 16 years old therefore.

 

May 2018: Invited by the University of Oregon for an official visit. Fin May, signing at the same university that won the NCAA Finals in 2016 and runner-up in 2017. It's also where Nike Phil Knight creator was educated and created his brand. .

 

March 2018: Quarter-finalist French Open U18 beaten on the 22nd hole by the Italian Pietro Bovari the future winner. The assistant coach from the University of Oregon made the trip especially to see me play...

- 3rd in the Charmeil Grand Prix

 

January 2018: My best wishes for health and happiness to my supporters.

December 2017 : After much hesitation, as I can't go and play the South Beach, I decide to go and play the AJGA tournament in Las Vegas invited by Evian.
I love the United States. I discover a city of madness as I did not imagine, but I love it. At night, it's cold but during the day as soon as the sun is up, you can play polo and that's really cool.
It's the first time I've played in a desert and it's really special. For example, if you miss a shot, you end up in the rocks because only the tees, fairways and greens are green...
The first round I really want to do well, too well, and I play potatoes with a terrible +5.
The second round starts badly with a +3 on the way out, and the click comes after a string tucked in at 10 and a – 3 on the return allows me to return a card in par.
Too bad there isn't a 3rd or 4th round. but I finish 14th…
I was able to meet a few university coaches who followed me and that's positive, but what's less so is that we'll have to catch up on the seMayne course!

November 2017 : I went back to physical preparation and training, I really needed it.
I went to play the GP PACA at Terre Blanche golf course which I did not know.
And big surprise!!
The course and the whole complex are fabulous. From the first holes, I felt good on this course. The training center is really great. The GP is a category 0: the only one with La Mouchy to have this level.
After two recces, I made a first lap, despite a few commas, in par.
For the second, I left in the last part and playing in 5h45 is hell. We even took 45 minutes to make a hole!! That's when I chained 3 bogeys, which in the end will cost me dearly. Fortunately on the last 5 holes, we were able to play them at a normal rhythm and I was able to make 2 birdies by making a comma for birdie at 18… I give back a card of +1.

I'm leaving for the 3rd round penultimate game but as there was a cut, there are far fewer players and the rhythm is correct. I end up with an orderly at 18 and a last birdie and I return a -1 to finish 4th at 3 shots from the first!! It's infuriating because with a normal pace in the second round I could go for the victory...
but I still leave satisfied for once!!
This 4th place takes me to 250th place in the World Adult Amateur Ranking (WAGR), that's cool!!

October 2017 : Despite my doctor's advice, I went back to play the Chamonix Grand Prix at the beginning of October. It really is a magical place that I love. I had orders to only play at 70% so that my fracture would not let go. I did a recce the day before and it had been two and a half months since I had played 18 holes. The first round is going very well, I return a card of -4, top for a return. The second round, I battle a little but I return a card of +1 which puts me in 3rd place so in the last game for the 3rd round. The day does not go absolutely as I had imagined. I am unable to hole a putt. It never happened to me like this. Ok I'm very tired because I haven't done 18 holes for a long time and this is my 4th in 4 days, but still… 41 putts later and a +9 I finish 23rd…
Mid-October after much hesitation, I'm going to Evian for a qualifying tournament to play in December in Las Vegas an AJGA tournament. As I need to do 18 holes I go there. The course is one of my favourites, if not my favorite. It is a unique place in the world for me. I have a lot of very good memories there, in particular my 2nd place in the Juniors Cup which, you could say, are the world championships for 14-year-olds (Spieth and Thomas did it at the same age…).
As it's an U18 competition, the distances are very short and I don't like it even if I always have to play at 70%. I finished in 5th place, not great but hey, I'll at least have my ticket to Las Vegas if I decide to go...

September 2017 : The federation organized, for the players of the French teams, 3 days at Le Golf National including a day with the captain of the Ryder Cup: Thomas Bjørn

Just exceptional!!!

We worked with him on the little game around the green.
He taught us so much in such a short time.
I came home with a tenfold desire to work on my little game.

I discovered not only a great golfer but also a great gentleman even if he is shorter than me with his 1m88 ;-) !

Tip Your Hat Thomas

July 2017 : I've been talking about the Biarritz Cup for a long time. So I wanted to go play it. Plus it's a beautiful area. I was able to make a recce with Laurent Bauduin who gave me a lot of info so a HUGE THANK YOU to him.
I leave for the first part at 7:15 a.m. so I wake up at 4 a.m. On the driving range, although very small, there is a magical atmosphere with the lighting...
First quiet round with a – 5 without forcing.
The second round, as soon as I warmed up, I felt feverish as if I had hypoglycemia, yet I ate like the day before… It lasted 8 holes, my legs and arms were shaking… not easy to play well . I am at the start from 9 to + 3. but when linking from 8 to 9, it passes. I find strength and I finish at +1. I limit breakage.
The 3rd round, like the first, quiet I give a card of -2, so I am at -6 total and in the top 5.
So I go to the penultimate bet for the 4th round.
And there rebelote, like the 2nd day. As soon as I warmed up, everything was shaking. I have no more strength, very bad back… I still take the start hoping that it will pass but it gets worse. At hole 5 or 6, I don't even know what golf course I'm playing anymore...
They want to stop me but I don't want to give up.
I have ups and downs.
Finally, at hole 12 I am forced to stop!
In the locker room a referee doctor examines me and tells me that he doesn't really know what I have but that I'm not well… He calls the doctor from the federation… They tell me that it's out of the question that I go and play in the French U16 team championships in 2 days with My club of Cannes Mougins…
I am devastated!! Especially since I'm supposed to leave for the France team the following week Mayne in Norway to play the European Young Masters…
The next day, I stop on the way back to greet my teammates at the Nîmes Campagne golf course. I really have the balls not to play with them but I have to go for exams to find out what I have.

It's at the hospital, on the floor of the top athletes that I do them, I even have the right to a cardiac ecology required by the doctor of the federation... They find nothing and tell me that I have a contracture in the lower back, which would explain the pain but not the tremors, the fatigue…
With the agreement of the sports doctor, I am still going to Norway…

I take off at 6am for Oslo in Norway with the France team for the European Young Masters.
After 2 days of recce which are going well, I find myself at the start of 1 in the same state as on the 2nd day of the Biarritz Cup, extreme fatigue, tremors, very bad back... I hang on like crazy to pull out a +5 card.
The second round I'm fine. Slight back pain but nothing else… and I can pull off a – 5 card and the high score of the day!! To understand nothing more!!
The 3rd lap I am fine until the 5th where I am at -2 and at the start of the 6th again, the same symptoms as the 1st day. I finish as I can, but doubled over in pain and no more energy. I return a card of +1 anyway and I end up in 14th place of a tournament that I could have won by being with all my physical means…

When we got home, we did a ton of exams.
Looking in all directions where the problem could come from.
After a lumbar MRI, we found isthmic lysis on the L5… 2 months of complete stoppage of golf and all sports… and I was lucky normally it's 2 months of corset and 4 months of rest complete...

 

 

June 2017 : Having chained 2 big tournaments in 2 weeks, I withdrew from the German Boys which is a very good competition on a superb golf course it seems, which allowed me to embark on the revisions of the French baccalaureate that I I spent June 15 for the written and June 30 for the oral.
but between the two I received a toilet from the federation to go and play an Alps Tour la Mirabelle d'Or on the Grange aux Orme Golfs near Metz . We did the road and I wanted to do a first reconnaissance in stride but there was a heat wave, so I only had the strength to do the first 9 holes. It's a twisted course with a lot of dog-leg holes, not very difficult and quite short where you can score very low but you really have to know it well to know where to aim and it's the kind of course that I don't like it very much.
The organization is top, it has been taking place for years. I have the chance to leave very early, avoiding the big heat.
but when warming up, I feel a lot of pain in my lower back. Even in ant it hurts. I'm leaving anyway, hoping it will pass. Two entry birdies…
but the return, which is really special, costs me dearly and I return a +3 card. Ditto the second day so that obviously does not allow me to pass the cut.

May 2017 : At the beginning of May, direction Bordeaux and the Médoc golf course that I don't know, with my new club: Cannes Mougins to play the famous competition, the Coupe Gounouilhou which brings together the 16 teams in the first division...

A great experience with a very good team. Captain Quentin d'Ursel immediately gave me his confidence by making me play the 2 rounds of stroke where I returned a card of +2 and +3 on a course that was not easy and very windy. ...
In the end we finish in 5th place. Unfortunately we lost in the quarter-final against the RCF. but I had a great experience with a great team, so I can't wait to play it again next year…

A short week of respite and as the federation granted me a toilet to participate in the coupe Murat on the famous golf course of Chantilly, the Vineuil that everyone is talking about, head north of Paris.
The heat is present, I can do two reconnaissance routes. My second reconnaissance, I did it with an Argentinian and an Irishman John Murphy.
I like the course, not easy with very good greens and almost perfect maintenance, I feel that I'm going to enjoy it...
La Murat is the biggest adult international amateur competition in France.
For the first round, I take a brand new putter that I have never played competitively with.
Well I shouldn't have!! 38 putts, which never happens to me but good 17 greens in regulation so a small card of +2. Correct!
The second round, I take another putter, which gives 32 putts and a card in par, so I quietly pass the cut.
I am once again the youngest to make the cut…
On Sunday, it's 36 holes to play like at La Mouchy.
Up at dawn, I play with a Finnish 42nd in the world and I bring another card in par. Less than an hour later, I leave for the 4th round, I'm tired but I'm fine.
I pass the outward journey at -2 but fatigue catches up with me on the return I miss 2 putts by one meter, damn it!! I would have liked to return a card under par, but it's a +1 in the end and a superb 24th place.

A day of rest with the family and head to the Clément Ader golf course near Melun.
One day I had the chance to meet Mr. Thomas O'Driscoll, a golf enthusiast and owner of the Clément Ader golf course. Two of his children play on the strong>Alps Tour, so he organized an Alps Tour tournament (the 3rd division among the pros) on his golf course and he sent me an invitation on Christmas Eve!!
So I'm going to play my first pro tournament at 15 years old!!
I start by playing the Pro-Am with Tommy O'Driscoll. Obviously he knows the course very well: it's his training course, so he gives me a lot of information because it's a beautiful course but not easy. Tommy tells me it's one of the hardest of the season, they prepared the roughs very thick…
Then, I was very kindly invited by Julien Brun to do the recce on Wednesday. Thanks again Julien for your help, but I'm out of business and I'm stopping the recce at 13...
For my first round, I have no particular apprehension, I play with two young pros and I play at 12:45. I pass through par on the way out which is pretty good. Then all of a sudden, a big soft blow, more energy... I am nevertheless well hydrated and fed but it's my 9th course in 9 days... At 12 I put a good face-off but I send 2 balls in the water on the attack of green… Result a quintuple !! Furious, I follow up with a double on 13 and end up bogey on 17 and 18.
A +9: my worst card in ages.
For the second lap, I'm the first start at 7:45 a.m. so wake up at 5 a.m., not cool for recovery.
but I have rage. I start from 10 and on 12 I birdie where I had lost 5 shots the day before and I go birdie on 13, a bogey on 14 then birdie on 17 and 18. I had lost 9 shots on the return but today I win 3 or 12 strokes away. Huge!
I start at 1 and birdie then another birdie at 4, so I'm at -5 for the day. I putt for birdie at 5 but I am hampered by a spectator who is in my line and who moves when I putt… result a bogey. I'm furious, I should have told him to leave but I didn't dare and I hadn't thought he would have moved...
At the start of the famous 6, a long par 3 with a complicated green with water on the right, I miss the green on the left, my chip however well played does not stop on this green downhill and I find myself at 6 m from the hole, the adrenaline helping, I load my uphill putt and find myself 2 m too long with again a downhill putt which tumbles and it's a 4 putt and a triple bogey which falls. Imagine my state of mind…
Suddenly, I attack hard and birdie the 7th and 8th, I plant the mat 2 m away on the difficult green of the 9th but I don't putt in...
I finish at -3 despite my triple!!
Which will still be the best score of the day but not enough because I only missed the cut by one shot.
I finished 46th out of 150!
I'm dead!!
Summary of this first pro tournament: I showed that I had spirit and character. I wanted to honor my invitation and I'm sure that with a little freshness I could have gone for a podium...

So it's only a postponement.
A huge and sincere THANK YOU to Mr THOMAS O'DRISCOLL for allowing me to experience beautiful emotions. These tips are always accurate and valuable to me.

Come on, I have to go home quickly to catch up on classes and prepare for the upcoming French baccalaureate…

 

April 2017: At the very beginning of the month, I went to the Grand Prix de Nîmes Campagnes in my new colors. I hesitated a lot to go there because it was on this same course that I was bitten by 2 Aspic vipers when I was 10 years old... I suffered a lot and took 2 years to recover...
I wanted to come full circle by going to win.
but the weather chose otherwise.
Correct first lap in +1, second lap canceled due to rain, third lap a strong swirling wind that I did not know how to apprehend meant that I only finished " " 4th. but it's my mate and friend Tom Vaillant who wins so I'm super mega happy for him. Well done Tom!!

In summary, for my last four competitions I finished: 4th - 2nd - 2nd - 4th
Not a bad start to the season, isn't it?

I then left 950 km from home to take part in the Internationaux de France cadets: the Carlhian on the very beautiful course of Granville where there is always a wind that drives you crazy… A real links in France…
Except that there will be no wind there...
but above all, it was during my first reconnaissance that I learned of the death of my grandmother Maryse.
Torn between the desire to stay and compete and to go home for my grandma's funeral, I played the 2 rounds of stroke but, even if I played well, my head and heart weren't there. not. I had the impression of not being present, I had a lot of trouble concentrating... so we came back at night to attend my grandma's funeral on Saturday and I did well...< /p>

I really wanted to thank the golf people: The starter, the lady at the reception, the people at the restaurant… for their welcome and their incredible kindness as well as the passionate people who followed me (even during the recce ) not hesitating for some, to drive 120 kms and bringing young people from their club so that they can see us play...
It's rare...

The page turned, 4 days later, I went to the Fontainebleau golf course, the most beautiful one I know in France. I love this course and its greens. The Frayssineau Mouchy cup is the oldest (1927) and important Grand Prix of France (Caté 0). The most beautiful organization too, livescoring, huge leaderboard, score holder... and a lot of public. The greens are huge with lots of subtleties, fast… everything I like. The first round went pretty well, I returned a card of -1. The second just as well with a card of -2 even if a few putts would have deserved to go in but I take… We are only 3 players to turn 2 cards negative… On Sunday, 36 holes await us. Long day… With freezing cold (0°), which I absolutely hate, it took me 5 holes to warm up and I started from 10 by boggey and double boggey… and I ran all morning to make up for it... but the putts didn't fall and I returned a card of +5….

but no time to think about it since I only have 45 minutes before leaving for the second round!! My legs hurt badly but I held on and gave back, a little disappointed, a +1 card. So in the end, I finished in an excellent 6th place just 3 strokes from the podium. Another great week Mayne…

March 2017 : For my resumption of competition, I participated in the Grand Prix du Cap d'Agde which I did not know.
Well, I did well to go there and this, for multiple reasons.
The first one, I had a wonderful encounter there.
We had booked a departure for a reconnaissance course and by chance this recce was done with Julien Duarte a member of Cap d'Agde and a friend Ela Bielecki.
Passionate about golf, Julien very quickly offered to explain the course to me, which is in superb condition with very good greens...
That he would be delighted to caddy me during the GP….
I'm used to being alone, but the next day Mayn we decided to do a second recce with Julien as a caddy, which went really well.
Having not competed for a long time, I preferred to play the first round alone, especially since the conditions were perfect, bright sunshine, no wind...
I return a card of +1 with some small errors due to the lack of competition...
Ditto for the second round, I go alone but the wind has picked up and it is constantly turning. As agreed, Julien joins me at hole 7 where I just birdie but I'm already at +3. With his invaluable help, I limit the breakage and return a +5 card.

For the last lap, the wind picked up around noon.
The morning games were lucky not to have wind but light rain making the greens very receptive. Julien came to caddy me for the 18 holes.
This is my 5th course in 5 days which I haven't done for months.
The tiredness is there. I grumble at the driving range...
I am not active at the start of 1, result ball in the water… double boggey…
Suddenly that wakes me up and Julien guides me… The wind has become enormous at 3.
A big fight all day with this crazy wind and with a crazy finish with 3 birdies on 16 17 and 18. Drive pitch downwind on the par 5 of 17, imagine…
I return a card in par despite my double of 1…

A HUGE THANK YOU to Julien for his help and support, a real nice meeting.

Result, I finish 2nd ex of this beautiful Grand Prix and icing on the cake, my access to the adult world ranking…
The season is off to a great start...

Me with in the center Julien Duarte my caddy on this GP and Piedelievre Paul my partner of the day

I then took part in the Grand Prix de l'Isère on the Charmeil golf course. A 2-turn category 6.
The course is not very difficult and he was very well prepared.
The wind picked up halfway through but I returned a -1 card and a second place.
Sleeping at home and leaving for the last game I felt like I was going to train...
The first day I had already done quite a bit around the holes, but on the second lap it was even worse. I had never experienced that. Commas, ties, a ball that stops at 2 mm, at 2 cm... a lot of frustration and annoyance cause me not to putt for the victory at 18 and I finish 2nd extremely disappointed…

At the end of March, asked by several first division clubs to strengthen their teams in order to participate in the famous Gounouilhou after much hesitation when leaving Mionnay, I decided to join the Cannes Mougins club and its team that I know well.

A new adventure begins…

February 2017: Sick for the Saint Donat Grand Prix, I unfortunately couldn't go. With a lot of regrets because it's a great Grand Prix, on a superb course where we are superbly welcomed by Didier Revilliod and all his team.

January 2017: My best wishes for health and happiness to my supporters.

December 2016 : I was again selected to play the South Beach Amateur in Miami which is the 8th adult competition in the world... but I couldn't go...

November 2016: Béziers Grand Prix this weekend counting for the world ranking so over 3 days. Too many places reserved for members did not allow me to do a complete recce so only the first 12 holes could be done with Sébastien  Tremulot Blanchard who helped me a lot to understand the first leg and it was at dark night and with a headlamp that we ended up at 12…
First round in -1 despite everything!!
The second round, very good game but the putts have grazed the holes all day and a card of +1.
Tied for second at the start of the last round so in the last game, once again the game was well in place but the putts did not fall, giving a score of +2 and a nice 4th place despite everything .
7 birdies for 9 bogeys on the 54 holes of this really not easy course with its very fast greens and many plateaus.
The hard work is starting to pay off…
Mid-November, I played the Grand Prix PACA on the great Cannes Mougins course. My feet which always hurt me (but we found the cause…), a pain between the two shoulder blades which arrived during the warm-up of the first day to which were added the frozen course so the cold which I hate… All these more or less little things meant that I completely missed out on this great competition which had been very successful for me last year.

October 2016 : A month off and a return to competition for the Chamonix GP. A great golf course in a unique environment in the world. The almost two months without competition were felt and despite some good balls, I finished 14ex with correct scores for a recovery thanks to 12 birdies and an eagle...
This was followed by the TFJ at the Chiberta golf course. I hate this type of course. I really don't find it golfing. Very short, tight, not golf… I prefer long courses a thousand times like that of Aisses for example where you have to know how to do everything to score… In addition I already had my head in Orlando because whatever the result of the TFJ I had to leaving the next day Mayn for Florida.
A Biarritz Lyon in a van with Cédric Coquet and the 6 girls from the league, arriving at 11:30 p.m. after an 8-hour drive. No time to sleep much, up at 4:30 a.m. to take the TGV to Roissy where I joined the UGolf Academy group for a good training week in Orlando…
A crazy week with four great courses – Falcon's Fire – Celebration Golf Club – Forest Lake – Eagle Creek, a visit to UCF (University of Central Florida) Universal Studio but also and above all a day spent with Mike Bender the coach of Zach Johnson… A huge THANK YOU to UGolf for this great adventure...

 

September 2016: Like everyone else, it's back to school. For me in 1st S option engineering sciences.
A foot injury made me abandon the GP of Aix en Provence. So forced rest...

August 2016: Not having been able to participate in the Saint Andrews Boys or the British boys, I have to continue the Grand Prix of Aix les Bains where I play: By -2 and +3 bringing me to a Disappointing 11th place for me. but no time to waste, one day to pack again and I'm off to the Aisses golf course that I don't know to participate in the adult French Championship. Incredible course. 6600 m with bunkers placed on each side of the fairways exactly where it should be... Certainly one of the most beautiful course designs I have played. 2 recon are a minimum to apprehend it. Starting from 10 I make a triple bogey at 11. I find my ball stuck in the bunker at 260 m… I take 3 shots to get out… A stupid double at 1… and I return a card of +5. On the second day I started to get to know this magnificent and difficult course better, I returned a card of +1 even if I had been at -2 for a long time… but I passed the cut and finished 22nd. Satisfied but disappointed afterwards because without these two nonsense of the first day, the podium was at the end of my clubs… The 2 match-plays followed each day until the final…
Unfortunately I come across a very big piece and even if I play well, I lose on 14….
I return the same day and I leave 2 days later in Brussels to participate in the International Junior Belgian….

July 2016: Right after Ireland we go to Scotland to play the Scottish Boys. I have much better feelings. 2 days of competition with 36 holes on the second day. I play +1 on the 3 turns and an 8th place.

June 2016: Lacking competition, I'm going to Ireland at the end of June with the France group to play the Irish Boys. I pass the cut but there are still some adjustments to make...

May 2016: I went to participate in the Saint Cloud Grand Prix. Unfortunately I hurt my back during the recce. The 6 hours on the road, a series of recce as soon as I got out of the car without warming up, to which is added a lot of heat and the fact that I had to dehydrate caused a major contracture in the middle of my back... I still wanted to do the first lap but it was really a bad idea and I had to give up... Result one month of forced rest...

April 2016: I participated in the adult grand prix of Rebetz in Picardy where I finished in 2nd place. What normally should have been synonymous with entry into the world ranking but for reasons that I can't explain, the category which had been the same for 5/6 years has changed... So a huge disappointment for me, I don't therefore does not fit into this famous World Ranking but it is only a postponement...
Unfortunately I learn this on the putting green of Fontainebleau where I came to do La Mouchy like last year. but my disappointment is such that I can no longer concentrate properly... I make a few mistakes which cost me dearly and I miss the Cut by 2 moves... I who came to win...

March 2016: Constrained and a bit forced, I took part in a Rhône/Alpe Suisse meeting at the Lyon golf club. It's a nice meeting that I've already done several times but it falls very badly on the calendar. Suddenly, I have to cancel my participation in the Cap d'Agde GP and these are less points… Above all, it forces me to play from Friday to Sunday then on Monday to take the road to go to Omaha Beach in Normandy… We are there will arrive at 4am…
It is the Carlhian (or the Internationaux de France cadets) which take place on the Omaha Beach course. After a few hours of sleep I start my first reconnaissance.
Wow what a journey!! I love it!! It is very varied, physical especially the first 9 holes. The greens are very rolling as I love… My two recce are taking place without wind under a beautiful sun.
but for the first lap, the wind is present. It is cold. I start with a double at 10, a par 3 which is not easy especially in the face of the wind… I return a very average card of +5. The second round I have trouble getting to grips with these very fast greens with the wind blowing even stronger… A second average card of +4 and I miss the cut by 2 shots with a lot of frustration and regret.
but it's like that. For the first time, the federation has set up a second cut for the U16s (which I'm part of since I'm 14!) so the adventure continues in match play despite everything...
The  chance  made the top of the board much harder than the bottom of the board.
In the first round I meet the favourite, a Belgian Max Peerbooms (-1.6 index). It's not a high level match but I win at 18.
The next day May we have to play quarter and semi-finals on the same day...
I meet the other favorite Yvan Ducler (-1.4 index) from the pole of Antibes whom I know well. We fight until play off where on the 1st after a monster drive downwind I take the green in 2 of this par 5 and I put my ball at 5m for Eagle...
A given birdie and I win the match.
but no time to savor, the referee is waiting for me at the exit of the green to take me to the start of 1 for the semi-final...
They finally gave me 30 minutes to eat a pasta dish which was actually Franck Riboud's plate, but he was kind enough to give it to me. Thank you Franck;-)
I'm dead, but we have to go back. This wind with these gusts of 70/80 km/h is exhausting. I'm out of juice and I'm keeping the suspense going against Lancelot Salisbury until the 18th.
Monday is the final against my buddy Hugo Riboud.
I have just completed 9 courses in 9 days… This is where I tell myself that I should not have played against Switzerland…
Last night's storm ripped off the leaderboard, flooded the greens… The entire team of gardeners are working miracles to restore the course to “state”. The referees decide to reduce the 2 finals to 18 holes instead of 36 holes. The first 5 holes are the apocalypse!! We are entitled to a 100 km/h wind with rain and even hail on 4, it is very cold…
At the start of 6, the referee announces a suspension because it is unplayable… Like my spare clothes are at the hotel, it's time to pick them up… it's too late.
I leave wet and cold…

Fatal!!
I lose the match at 16...
Rage, frustration, fatigue, disappointment easy to imagine...
During the 11h return, I have time to calm down.
but what a seMayne!!
BRAVO to Guillaume FANNONEL a friend from Lyon who won the U18 final!!
I would also like to THANK Mr. DUPONT the owner of the golf course, as well as its members.
It's the first time since I've been playing golf that I've done a young competition where there are so many people watching the games.
Mr. Dupont even followed the first part of my final when the deluge fell on us. He was the only one under his umbrella that he had trouble holding. He even came to chat with me and say very nice things to me!!
At the awards ceremony, there were also a lot of people, which shows the respect and interest that everyone has for the young golfers that we are.
I tell them in turn THANK YOU, BRAVO and RESPECT.
If you pass by, stop to play this superb course and you will also be superbly welcomed…

February 2016: I was registered for a tournament in Portugal but I couldn't go...
So I'm starting my season with the Saint Donat Grand Prix.
I discovered this course and I love it (except the 17th!!). He is magnificent. It looks like the Bresson golf course where I train very often, which is not surprising because it is the same architect who created them.
Didier REVILLIOD and his entire team have prepared the ground in the best possible way. It's top, the greens are top, the welcome is top...
It's short for me. So we decide to try to attack all the flags to try to score very low... Bah this time the course which won especially as the technical and physical work undertaken is not yet finalized. I do triple and quadruple at 17...
but I will come back in 2017 that's for sure Didier ;-)

January 2016:My best wishes for health and happiness to my supporters.

December 2015 :In this month of December, head to Miami and its beautiful beaches… uh no, its beautiful golf courses of course!!
After passing through Lisbon, I arrive in a city that I love. I feel at home there...
It is very hot for a month of December with 27/28° even at night it is 20°.
I came to do 2 competitions. The qualification for the Orange Bowl on the Biltmore and above all I was selected to play one of the ten most important amateur adult competitions in the world: the South Beach International Amateur(SBIA).
It brings together 210 players from all over the world and is played on 2 courses: the Miami Beach Golf Club, a superb course with water everywhere like the magnificent iguanas running around you. The greens are extremely fast which I love.
The outward journey is very tactical, you have to know it well...
The second is the Normandy Shores Golf Club. 6250m par 70 so very long with also a lot of water making the fairways not very wide. The torrential rains of the previous weeks made him very greasy and we often find his drive ball stuck...
The next day Mayn, I chose to go and recce Normandy Shores, well the last 9 holes only because it seems that they are the most difficult.
but I quickly have to recce on another course that I am also discovering, the Biltmore south of Miami. I did it with my friend Hugo Riboud who discovered it the day before. We are the only two being only 14 years old!
It's really hot and the greens are very sandy, which bothers us a lot to putt well... There are a lot of people in front and it lasts 6 hours...
Endless, exhausting…

The next dayMayn, it's already the first round.
Up at 5 a.m., practice at daybreak and off we go for a very, very long day. 5h30 of play for a cat card (81) and 39 putts, the worst score of my year…
After a good night's sleep, it's back and there, the pace of play is much better. The sanded greens, I'm starting to get used to them, the heat too and I return a card of 72… that reassures me!!
but no time to go to the beach, even if the weather is magnificent, without a cloud, without a breath of wind, the next day May I start my recce for the SBIA.
I start with the Miami Beach.
The first holes are not easy, I'm surprised. You have to find a good strategy with all this water on both sides...
I also discover perfect but also very fast greens. The return suits me better, it is much longer with magnificent holes like 16 or 17...
The next day, I'm on the Normandy Shore, 20 minutes from Miami Beach. The course may be longer, but I find it more straightforward…
The next day, rest day, I will work on my putting and especially the approaches because the grass around the green is really special and it is difficult to chip well if you are not used to it...
And there surprise, there is a lot of wind.
He forecasts for the next day Mayn, the first day of the competition, an even stronger wind with gusts at 60/70 km/h.
Panic on board!!
The course is already really not easy, but all my face-off strategies are no longer valid!!
We try as best we can to find a start at the beginning of the afternoon to quickly redo the round of departures, we will finish at nightfall, not cool for a rest day...
Finally, the first day of competition.
I leave at 11:50 a.m. and the wind is rather calm in the morning, unleashed around 11 a.m....
but I like these moments of big international competitions. We are entitled to the player badge, our practice spot is reserved with a sign in our name, we even have a ball pyramid… How classy!!
Being the youngest (the oldest is 56 years old) and the first at 14 years old to play South Beach, there are people for my departure adding stress…
The starter is super nice, he speaks 4 languages ​​perfectly including French. He finds it hard to believe that from the top of my ninety meters that I am only barely 14 years old, it's fun !!
but what worries me the most is the wind and its gusts…
Instead of playing with him, I fight, even debate against him and off course he is the strongest on the first 10 holes.
I leave a lot of strength and points (+12). My hopes of creating the feat of passing the cut flew away with him...
but from the 11th, I begin to understand it better. +1 until the 18th and I'm the last game to be able to finish before complete darkness. Phew!!

And I go on the second lap on the Normandy. The wind still present, is less strong than yesterday. The first leg is going much better in 73 (+3).
There remains the big piece of the return…
but he, I was able to do 2 recce so even if he is more difficult I am at -2 at the start of 18 which is a very long par 4 of almost 500m... and wanting to attack too much, I do a beginner's double...
So I end up at +3 which is one of the 10 best scores of the day on the Normandy…

What I remember in the end is rather very positive, because I play + 4 on the last 27 holes. It really takes 2 recons and I have to keep learning to play with the wind…
I played the 2 days with an Italian 10 years older than me. He plays -2 and +2 and easily passes the cut to finally finish 22nd.
We had the same lengths of clubs and I didn't see a big difference with my game, except that on the first day he made 6 birdies and I none.
For this, he was able to play with the wind and return the putts he needed. He knew the course very well for having already played it x times… He had a better strategy and I was able to understand what I needed to work on to win this tournament within 2/3 years…
I'm really happy to have been able to participate in this competition, I learned a lot of things in a short time and I can't wait to go back next year…

November 2015 : At the beginning of November, I participated in the last important Grand Prix of the year which took place at the Cannes Mougins golf course. It's a GP category 1 - with 2 more good players it could even have been a category 0, just below that of La Mouchy.
We left the same day of the recce and after 5 hours by car, bad surprise, I could not have left before 3 p.m.!! So I was only able to do the first 10 reconnaissance holes on a course I had never played.

The first round, I started from 17 and not knowing the holes, I start with bogey and double bogey but I play -3 from 1 to 9. Despite a new double bogey on a hole that I did not know, on 15, I return a card of +4. I lost 5/6 shots because of the lack of recon... I'm furious...

The second day, knowing the course, I play -1 with a lot of frustration because I felt able to get a -5… Once again I pass the cut easily with +3 on the 2 turns (the cut was at +7).

For the last round, a four times three putts did not allow me to score under par and I returned a +2 to finish in 23rd place (and a 3-day score average of 1.66) which is in itself, a great performance but I come home frustrated not to have been able to do a complete recce, because I think I could have easily grabbed a podium if not for the lost shots on the first lap…

October 2015 : I participated in the Federal Youth Tournament (TFJ) which brings together the 21 best French youngsters and minors. The competition took place on the Chiberta golf course. It's a beautiful place with an interesting golf course but the distances chosen were very (too) short for me and a completely absent putting means that I quickly want to forget this tournament...

I was invited by the director of my golf course in Mionnay, Éric Lacoux to participate in the Master NGF Pro-Am in Courson. I really like this course. I had to speak in front of more than 100 people by presenting my background... not easy at first but in the end I really liked it!! We didn't win the competition but we won the 1st prize for elegance with our Mionnay outfits and bag! (LOL).

September 2015 :

Congratulations also to my friend Charles Larcelet from team 2 who had a great tournament and finished 3rd!!
Thank you to the FFGOLF coaches Alexandre Bosserey, Thomas Bregeon and Mickaël Mahéo who supervised us during this great adventure.

A BIG,HUGE THANK YOU to my coach OLIVIER RAYNAL who came for 3 days in a row to support and encourage me. I hope Oliv that you had as much fun as me ;-))

          The French team surrounding the winner Lydia KO

1st round Evian Junior Cup: Tee n°1

August 2015 : 4 days after returning from Hardelot, I'm going back to Bordeaux for the final phase of the French Championships.
Bordeaux Lac a route that I am discovering. Unfortunately it is in very poor condition. They did work for watering or drainage 2 months ago, which means that there are big bleeds everywhere on the fairways… You have to be very careful not to twist your ankle or lose a ball… Frankly not great for a French Championship!!
In addition, the departures for us the youngest are blue balls...
Well, I play -4 on the first day of qualifying with 8 birdies, I'm in the lead but the second day I get way too angry, leaving a lot of energy and I only finish 3rd ex with a ridiculous +2… A good lesson…
I will miss this energy in the quarter-final against my friend Hugo Riboud. I lead the whole match until 16 but I can't accelerate and I lose on 17 but we had a great match worthy of the final...
I arrive home on Friday at midnight and I leave Sunday morning for Geneva where I have to catch a plane for Liverpool to join the France group. I get there at 10 p.m. 8 hours late… I continue the next Mayn with the recce and a 3-day competition, the REID Trophy. Tired, I pass the cut but do not shine too much.
On the way then to Scotland where we were to have a France / Scotland meeting but this one is canceled.
We end up with the Loretto Scottish Boys U14. I really like the courses in Scotland. I play -3 the first round. The only player under par, so I have a 3-stroke lead. A catastrophic 2nd round with greens in very poor condition due to the incessant rain and the fact that they have been trodden on since very early in the morning, I am still in the lead at the start of the 18th but I go for a double bogey which costs me very very expensive. I finished 5th…
Can't wait for the holidays...

Tired, unfortunately I skipped the Massane GP…

I'm going back to high school…

July 2015 : 1 day after returning from Saint Cyprien, I leave, this time for Hardelot with My club de Mionnay, to play France - 17 years old per team. After a very long road, I discover a very beautiful golf course. but I am also rediscovering the climatic conditions of the North!! It is very hot everywhere in France except in the north!! Wind, rain, cold... Even my umbrella broke with the wind!! The competition is going well, I finish 4th in the qualifiers and I win my two matches in foursome and match play but we still lose against our friends from Aix les Bains in ¼. We stay in 2nd div which was the goal...

I received my new Stiff Srixon shafts the day before the recce for the FIR (qualification for the French championship) on the Saint Cyprien golf course. I did the reconnaissance with Pierre, a recently retired doctor and his wife Marie Christine. They were really super nice!!
The course was very short for me, especially on the 1st day when there was no wind but a scorching heat and with greens that absolutely did not roll (I don't like it too much, I prefer ultra fast greens) I turn in a -4!! Proof that my new Srixon clubs are perfect for me in Stiff!!
The second round, a strong wind has arrived… I return a +2 card with a perfect big game but still struggling on his very slow greens…
On the 3rd day, still as much wind but I worked with Olivier on the putting… And despite the fact that I lost 2 balls, including one because of a not very friendly referee who told me that he had seen the ball I had just driven… but he doesn't want to tell me where and he goes…another much nicer referee, who arrived later, took me back to the starting line to replay a ball…and I birdie with it…
I play -1 with a stupid bogey at 18…
but hey, I win with an 11-stroke lead...

The next day Mayn I also learn that I have the college certificate with honors VERY WELL!!! Yippee!!

The month of July is off to a great start;-))

June 2015 : As I'm a year ahead, I have to pass the Brevet des Collèges!! The problem is that the history-geo test takes place on Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. and that I have a departure for the Lyon GP at 2:10 p.m. at 1:30 a.m.  !!
I like challenges! So I picked it up!!
So I left for the penultimate part and there the horror!! An endless wait until we were only 2 players left following a scratch!! 5:30 a.m. to go around…
Under a significant heat, I held the first 9 holes… and I return a card of +6 !
+2 and +3 the 2nd and 3rd days are more logical and there the rhythm was almost normal… I finished 22nd…

After Aix, I moved on to the Saint Cloud GP. Very short and very tactical course that you have to know well to score. A single little discovery did not allow me to find the right strategy... Especially since I realized that my new Srixon irons were already starting to be too flexible... I already have to change the shafts. ..

The driver problem had to be fixed. Maurice prepared a new one for me because it no longer had the same shaft.
After some tests, I found one, a bomb…
In any case on the first day, I had never driven so far... Except that...
I left for the Grand Prix of Aix Marseille and there, apart from a great first drive, I put it everywhere… Me who is quite straight and regular there, I no longer had the feeling of controlling it! !
It was very very hot, a drop in speed, that is surely the explanation...
So GP to quickly forget…

May 2015 : Last weekend I did the Valescure Grand Prix. We arrived the day before at 9 p.m. So I couldn't recce but I played with 3 great guys during the first 2 rounds: Stephen and Bastien his great caddy and Louis.
The first round was not easy because it is a rather tactical course and a good recce would not have been superfluous. Especially the greens. I put myself 7 times in birdie position to make only one, but I return an honorable score of +3.
The second was going very well; in par at 14 before my drive broke in half!! Of course, I had heard creaks during the last two drives, but when I took it out of my bag, it broke like glass!! He was only a month old and it was the first time that this had happened to me... I must admit that it disturbed me a lot and I returned a +6 with a triple...
Still passing the cut easily, I decided to play without a driver on the 3rd day.
Not easy to find another one, especially since it is forbidden to drive on the practice, so I did not feel like leaving with a club that I had not been able to hit before, logical no? This handicapped me a little on 2 or 3 holes but I returned a satisfactory +2 to finish in 19th place in this GP category 4.

While playing basketball in college, I hurt two fingers of the left Mayn, so I had to cancel my participation in the Ardèche Grand Prix at the Sainte Clair golf course. Too bad it's a golf course that I like...

I left with My club de Mionnay to do the French Mid Amateur 3rd Div Championships on the Luberon golf course. I really like these team competitions. There is a good ambiance. We finished 5th in qualifying which is a great performance considering we were the youngest team but as we were also the smallest team with only 5 players, fatigue set in for the matches and we logically tilted against the team of Chassieux. This competition allowed me to play with my new Srixon irons. I have to get used to it, new heads (sublime !!) new shafts…

April 2015 : So this weekend I played the Mouchy cup on the splendid course of Fontainebleau which I discovered on this occasion. For those who do not know this event: "Today this competition brings together all the best French amateurs from all over France. It has become, by the quality of its "platform " the 1st Grand Prix de France and is recognized by players as the "French Amateur Master ". Source: www.golfdefontainebleau.com

The Mouchy Grand Prix is ​​in fact ONLY the 4th of my "career". Indeed, I did 3 last year when I was 12 and this one is the first of the year...
I started with two days of recce with my friends from the Montpellier center and Alexandre Bosserey their coach whom I thank very much, under a great sun.
As often for yearsI am the youngest in this competition!!

The first lap, I had a little trouble getting to grips with the outward leg, which I passed in +4 with a double due to an exit from the bunker where My club hit a rock under the sand... but the return, however more difficult, I play it in -1 which gives me a score of +3 (74). It keeps me in the running for the next cut Mayn.
The second turn passes quietly and I return a card of +1 (72). Six birdies over these 2 days allow me to pass the cut without any problem.
I then became the first 13-year-old golfer in the history of this prestigious tournament to pass the cut.
It's funny, but for the final I'm the only player who doesn't have a negative index.

On the 3rd day there are 2 laps in the same day, a first for me!!
I am in the first part so from 8 am I attack. It rained heavily overnight with heavy thunderstorms. The greens are very different and I had a lot of trouble on the long putts and with 4 times 3 putts I returned a card of +6 (77). I'm mad!!
Not long because I only have 45 minutes to eat… before the last lap.
Well, it goes by very very quickly believe me!!
At 1:15 p.m., we left again, starting on the 10th, iron stroke 4 for 193m, which left me with an uphill putt... It was raining for a large part of the afternoon with 2 hours when the ropes were falling...
but as usual, I fight and I put a score in the par !! It will also be the 3rd best score of this 4th round and I finish in an incredible 24th place for my first participation in this fabulous competition.
I make 11 birdies in total which ranks me 14th, a stat that I like ;-))

This is also the most beautiful competition in which I participated. The splendid course, the perfect greens, the exceptional welcome and organization… What happiness!!

Immediately after the GP of Charmeil, I left to play the Carlhian.
Indeed, I was surprised to receive a toilet from the federation to play these junior French Opens (105 negatives at the start and I was the youngest) on the Barbabroux golf course. So I discovered the course 2 days before the competition. And what a journey!! Splendid!!
My two days of recce took place with 100 km/h of wind which made the greens feel like drums. For the par 3 you had to aim for the bunkers because if you fell on the green, the ball would go anywhere...
Ditto for the first day of competition which finally had to be canceled, the balls no longer held on the greens, they began to roll on their own.
Too bad I scored pretty well…
On the second day, the wind had dropped but there was a slight breeze from the opposite direction, which complicated my strategy quite a bit and caused me to lose a few shots.
Despite everything, I only missed the cut by one shot and finished a superb 39th place (out of 132) next to last year's winner (-4.7 index ;-) ).
This made me score as many points as possible and I move to first place in the European U14 ranking with double the points on the second, an Italian...
I received my new Srixon Z745 and Z945 clubs, jewelry…

March 2015 : I participated in the Rhône alpes / Switzerland meeting on the splendid course of the DoMayne Impérial in Switzerland. There is a splendid cover club right next to Michael Schumacher's house...
Well, we lost the match but just…
At the end of this month, I participated in the 3rd Grand Prix of my short career, and I finish 5th!!
It was the Grand Prix de l'Isère in Charmeil where I started golf school at 3 years old...

February 2015: This period always allows me to work on the fundamentals and the physique. but while skating, I broke my right thumb! Bad luck :-((
I miss the first competition I was supposed to do... but the next one is coming right behind! My schedule for this year has never been so full!! I can't wait to start...

January 2015: My best wishes for health and happiness to my supporters. May 2015 bring you the best.

November 2014 :Nothing special for this month of November, except that I do a lot of club tests to find what suits me best. I also found the grip that I like on my putter so the putting is back... Soon the Doral and Florida...

October 2014: A busy month with the League Grand Prix in Mionnay and a team competition at the Valdaine golf course. Two very average weekends to quickly forget. Followed by the Federal Youth Tournament (TFJ) where this time it was my putting (with a change of grip) that was not up to par, I finished 9th despite everything. I'm growing a lot (1m80) so I have to change my clubs to switch to heOLIVIER RAYNALavier and more rigid steel shafts.
It's going to send heavy ;-)

September 2014: This is back to school. I am lucky to be in a great college with a great principal of good teachers. but as I'm a year ahead, it's my last year... Only 3 more years before college in the USA... I can't wait ;-)

I did my 2nd Grand Prix of my long career ;-))) It was at the Chassieux golf course. I had never played it. If you don't know this golf course, I encourage you to discover it or rediscover it. The driving range is superb. The interview is great. The perfect greens and course. And great hospitality. I was only warned on Thursday afternoon that I could do it. Kieran made this possible. A big thanks to him. Despite only one recce the day before, I play 73 and 74. With a few lost shots (2 doubles) especially on the first day, due to lack of knowledge of the course. And in the end a 9th place.

August 2014: After Les Frances, I went to join my friends Arthur and Edgar Brischoux at La Grande Motte where we shared some nice games on the Grande Motte golf course. I also took the opportunity to discover the course of Massane which is really very interesting. I was supposed to do the GP there at the end of August but I couldn't...

Mid-August, I did the Grand Prix of Aix les Bains. Finally my real first Grand Prix!! It's a course that I really like. The first day I left late and unlike the morning games we had rain. At -2 at the start of the 8 I made a triple which annoyed me... I finished at 76. The second day I got up at 5 am... With gastro... I almost didn't to go but I went anyway and in addition, it was falling ropes... I was bent over backwards all along the route, I even had to make an emergency stop... and let pass the back part with the agreement of the referees... And I play 78. I do not pass the cut and it is a shame because I had the means to score well on this course... Next year I I'm sure :-)

July 2014: The MIR (final selections for the French championships) took place at the Aix-Marseille golf course. Three days of competition under a real Mistral (a first for me) with gusts at 70/80 km/h on a course that I did not know. My recognition of the course is done practically without wind. And that changes everything !!
On the 3rd day, left in the last game 6 strokes behind against a youngest 2: Thomas Boulanger (I was one of the youngest, if not the youngest, in the youngest category) I took the lead on the aisle with a lead of 1! ! Advance that I held until the start of the 17th before my drive ended up under a bush... resulting in an unfortunate double that cost me the victory. Very disappointed but satisfied to have played 3 times 77 in such conditions, on a course that I did not know. 2 days of rest and on the way to the French second division team championships for under-17s with My club de Mionnay. To follow up on the individual French championships at National Golf…

I played the 17-year-old second division French championships on the Vaucouleur golf course on the Rivière course (a magnificent course) with my team from Mionnay (a magnificent team). We were only able to do one recce because of the rain which did not prevent me on the first day from playing -1 - best score of the day - (I was -3 at the start of the 15th before doing a stupid double). We played the climb but we were beaten by a brave team from Strasbourg after 2 play-off matches. Kudos to them!

Then head to the National. I had been able to discover the course with the league in June, but in a month and a half the course had completely changed. The Albatross is a splendid course. I didn't like it too much at first, then the more I played it the more I liked it. This year I am Benjamin first year, and the category is Benjamin 1 and 2.
The first day of France I had a start at 7:33 am and as my trainer Olivier Raynal says "the Tom in the morning is grumpy", so I grumbled the first 9 holes... to get a +6 medium. The next day Mayn left at 1pm so better awake… -1 at 13 before doing a stupid double at 15 to finish at +2 (2nd best score of the day). First round of match-play, I win 5/3. The second match-play was going just as quietly but I got really tired from 7 to 13. My opponent took the opportunity to come back and pass me 2up. but at 14 I felt better and was able to go back to 1 up. We birdie every 2 on the 15th. I win the 16th, but after a bad drive I lose the 17th. So I go back 1 down. At the start of the famous 18 of the Albatros I put a huge drive in the middle of the fairways. My opponent goes to the right in the rough and takes 2 shots to advance… I then decide to attack this par 5 in 2 despite the water surrounding this mythical green. A perfect hybrid shot and my ball stops 5/6 m from the hole… I putt in for EAGLE and come back tied. Play-off!
Perfect tee shot. I have 125m left in the mat, I play a 9 iron that I send to… 145m (probably because of the adrenaline of the 18) on the green but on the left. This gives me a 20m putt with a big bump in the middle but unfortunately my ball stops right on top of the bump and I have a 5m putt left that just misses the hole and I lose the play-off. The balls especially as it is my opponent of the day who wins the final...

June 2014: After having won with 5 strokes in advance the second merits at the golf course of Valence Saint Didier, direction the MIR at Aix-Marseille golf course. but in the meantime I helped the golf school of My Club de Mionnay to qualify via the superb competition Hugo Barbarin (in tribute to Hugo, a young golfer aged 11 and a half who unfortunately passed away). It's the third year that I've done it and it's always with a lot of emotions. He has fantastic parents!!
I also participated in the final of the golf schools that My club also won!!

May 2014: I was lucky enough to be able to follow the Spanish Open and spending a lot of time with the French pros who were there. On Monday I was able to play the course of PGA Catalunya Sunday pros... A great memory.

With Grégory Bourdy both from the Bent Criss team

April 2014: I invite you to see the biggest and most beautiful golf training center in the world THE GOLFLOWER:

Off course, that's where I train!!
Want to see even more?
Here is the long version:
Full video of the GOLFLOWER

 

March 2014: After 2 days of selection, I left with My Club de Mionnay and the entire under-17 team for Avignon for 2 days of cohesion. It was really TOP. I continued with an internship in Spain in Emporda where I played really well. I managed to stand up to the best minims of Rhône Alpes. With some nice cards like the 74 of the 2nd day despite a wind of 100km/h.

So I was selected to do a Rhône Alpes/Switzerland meeting in Lyon. The best of RA against the best of Switzerland.
The first day I played foursome. It was crazy weather with huge downpours and gusts of wind. We were led 2 down at the start of the 16th. We won the 16th. AT the start of the 17th I made an anthology move. A par 3 of 178 m. Headwind, the rain increases, we are led one down. A hybrid shot and I plant the mast less than a meter away. On the 18th we have to stop because there is so much rain, the coaches decide to share the game... The next dayMayn I win my match-play, bringing the 2 teams to a draw. but behind there are many defeats of our team... Too bad! Anyway, I loved doing this little Ryder Cup.

February 2014: The more than mild weather allowed me to do a lot of basic work on my technique but also on my physical condition. And this is the first time in a long time that I feel so good. I think I finally regained all my faculties like BEFORE the snakebite. About time!!

January 2014: My best wishes for health and happiness to my supporters. May 2014 bring you the best.