Open de France

Open de France
	Trophy presentation at the 2013 Open de France
Tournament information
Location	Paris, France
Established	1906
Course(s)	Le Golf National
Par	71
Length	7,331 yards (6,703 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	€3,000,000
Month played	July
Tournament record score
Aggregate	262 Lu Liang-Huan (1971)
To par	−23 Barry Jaeckel (1972)
Current champion
	Bernd Wiesberger

Paris

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Location in France

The Open de France is a European Tour golf tournament. Inaugurated in 1906 it is the oldest national open in Continental Europe and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the tour's inception in 1972.

Originally played at La Boulie Golf Club, the tournament has been hosted by many different venues, but since 1991, it has been held at the Le Golf National near Paris every year except for 1999 and 2001.

Since the turn of the Millennium the Fédération Française de Golf has made a concerted effort to enhance the stature of the event. One of these measures included the dropping of title sponsorship from 2003. In 2004 qualifying tournaments were introduced on the model of those for The Open Championship and the U.S. Open and are open to professionals and amateurs. The prize fund rose from €865,000 in 1999 to €4 million from 2006 to 2009, putting the Open de France in the top group of European Tour events (excluding the majors and the World Golf Championships, which are co-sanctioned by the U.S. based PGA Tour). The prize fund in 2015 was €3 million.

Winners

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner(s)-up
Alstom Open de France
2015	Le Golf National	Bernd Wiesberger	271 (−13)	James Morrison
2014	Le Golf National	Graeme McDowell (2)	279 (−5)	Thongchai Jaidee, Kevin Stadler
2013	Le Golf National	Graeme McDowell	275 (−9)	Richard Sterne
2012	Le Golf National	Marcel Siem	276 (−8)	Francesco Molinari
2011	Le Golf National	Thomas Levet	277 (−7)	Mark Foster, Thorbjørn Olesen
2010	Le Golf National	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	273 (−11)^PO	Alejandro Cañizares, Francesco Molinari
Open de France ALSTOM
2009	Le Golf National	Martin Kaymer	271 (−13)^PO	Lee Westwood
2008	Le Golf National	Pablo Larrazábal	269 (−15)	Colin Montgomerie
2007	Le Golf National	Graeme Storm	277 (−7)	Søren Hansen
2006	Le Golf National	John Bickerton	273 (−11)	Pádraig Harrington
Open de France
2005	Le Golf National	Jean-François Remésy (2)	273 (−11)^PO	Jean van de Velde
2004	Le Golf National	Jean-François Remésy	272 (−12)	Richard Green, Nick O'Hern
2003	Le Golf National	Philip Golding	273 (−15)	David Howell
Novotel Perrier Open de France
2002	Le Golf National	Malcolm MacKenzie	274 (−14)	Trevor Immelman
2001	Lyon	José María Olazábal	268 (−12)	Greg Turner, Paul Eales, Costantino Rocca
2000	Le Golf National	Colin Montgomerie	272 (−16)	Jonathan Lomas
1999	Médoc	Retief Goosen (2)	272 (−12)^PO	Greg Turner
Peugeot Open de France
1998	Le Golf National	Sam Torrance	276 (−12)	Massimo Florioli, Bernhard Langer, Mathew Goggin, Olivier Edmond
1997	Le Golf National	Retief Goosen	271 (−17)	Jamie Spence
1996	Le Golf National	Robert Allenby	272 (−16)^PO	Bernhard Langer
1995	Le Golf National	Paul Broadhurst	274 (−14)	Neal Briggs
1994	Le Golf National	Mark Roe	274 (−14)	Gabriel Hjertstedt
1993	Le Golf National	Costantino Rocca	273 (−11)^PO	Paul McGinley
1992	Le Golf National	Miguel Ángel Martín	276 (−8)	Martin Poxon
1991	Le Golf National	Eduardo Romero	281 (−7)	José María Olazábal, Sam Torrance
1990	Chantilly	Philip Walton	275 (−5)^PO	Bernhard Langer
1989	Chantilly	Nick Faldo (3)	273 (−7)	Hugh Baiocchi, Mark Roe, Bernhard Langer
1988	Chantilly	Nick Faldo (2)	274 (−6)	Dennis Durnian, Wayne Riley
1987	Saint-Cloud	José Rivero	269 (−19)	Howard Clark
1986	La Boulie	Seve Ballesteros (4)	269 (−19)	Vicente Fernández
1985	Saint-Germain	Seve Ballesteros (3)	263 (−21)	Sandy Lyle
1984	Saint-Cloud	Bernhard Langer	270 (−18)	José Rivero
Paco Rabanne Open de France
1983	La Boulie	Nick Faldo	277 (−11)^PO	José Maria Cañizares, David J Russell
1982	Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche	Seve Ballesteros (2)	278 (−10)	Sandy Lyle
1981	Saint-Germain	Sandy Lyle	270 (−14)	Bernhard Langer
1980	Saint-Cloud	Greg Norman	268 (−20)	Ian Mosey
French Open
1979	Lyon	Bernard Gallacher	284 (−8)	William Milne
1978	La Baule	Dale Hayes	269 (−19)	Seve Ballesteros
1977	Le Touquet	Seve Ballesteros	282 (−6)	Antonio Garrido, Manuel Piñero, John Bland, Ian Stanley
1976	Le Touquet	Vincent Tshabalala	272 (−16)	Salvador Balbuena
1975	La Boulie	Brian Barnes	281 (−7)	Neil Coles, Eamonn Darcy, Dale Hayes, John O'Leary
1974	Chantilly	Peter Oosterhuis (2)	284 (+4)	Peter Townsend
1973	La Boulie	Peter Oosterhuis	280 (−4)	Tony Jacklin
1972	Biarritz & La Nivelle	Barry Jaeckel	265 (−23)^PO	Clive Clark
1971	Biarritz & La Nivelle	Lu Liang-Huan	262 (−10)	Roberto De Vicenzo, Vicente Fernández
Open de France
1970	Biarritz & Chantaco	David Graham	268	Jean Garaïalde, Florentino Molina
1969	Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche	Jean Garaïalde	277 ^PO	Roberto De Vicenzo
1968	Saint-Cloud	Peter Butler	272	Sebastián Miguel, Peter Townsend
1967	Saint-Germain	Bernard Hunt	271	Peter Butler
1966	La Boulie	Denis Hutchinson	274	Ramón Sota
1965	Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche	Ramón Sota	268	Cobie Legrange
1964	Chantilly	Roberto De Vicenzo (3)	272^PO	Cobie Legrange
1963	Saint-Cloud	Bruce Devlin	273	Kel Nagle
1962	Saint-Germain	Alan Murray	274	Peter Thomson, Bob Charles
1961	La Boulie	Kel Nagle	271	Peter Thomson
1960	Saint-Cloud	Roberto De Vicenzo (2)	275	Leopoldo Ruiz, Bill Johnston
1959	La Boulie	Dave Thomas	276	Peter Alliss
1958	Saint-Germain	Flory Van Donck (3)	276^PO	Harold Henning
1957	Saint-Cloud	Flory Van Donck (2)	266	Peter Alliss, Ángel Miguel
1956	Deauville	Ángel Miguel	277	Antonio Cerdá, Trevor Wilkes, Flory Van Donck
1955	La Boulie	Byron Nelson	271	Harry Weetman
1954	Saint-Cloud	Flory Van Donck	275	Aldo Casera, Norman Von Nida
1953	La Boulie	Bobby Locke (2)	276	Max Faulkner
1952	Saint-Germain	Bobby Locke	268	Antonio Cerdá
1951	Saint-Cloud	Hassan Hassanein	278	Jimmy Adams
1950	Chantilly	Roberto De Vicenzo	279
1949	Saint-Germain	Ugo Grappasonni	275
1948	Saint-Cloud	Firmin Cavalo	287
1947	Chantilly	Henry Cotton (2)	285	John Knipe
1946	Saint-Cloud	Henry Cotton	269	Flory Van Donck
1940–45	No tournament due to World War II
1939	Le Touquet	Martin Pose	285	Tom Odams
1938	Fourqueux	Marcel Dallemagne (3)	282	Pierre Hausséguy
1937	Saint-Cloud	Marcel Dallemagne (2)	278	Leonard Crawley (amateur)
1936	Saint-Germain	Marcel Dallemagne	277 ^PO	Henry Cotton
1935	Le Touquet	Sid Brews (2)	293	Aubrey Boomer, Mark Seymour
1934	Dieppe	Sid Brews	284	Aubrey Boomer, Auguste Boyer
1933	Chantilly	Bert Gadd	283	Auguste Boyer, Marcel Dallemagne
1932	Saint-Cloud	Arthur Lacey	295	René Golias
1931	Deauville	Aubrey Boomer (5)	291	Tomas Genta, Percy Alliss
1930	Dieppe	Ernest Whitcombe	282	Auguste Boyer
1929	Fourqueux	Aubrey Boomer (4)	283	Archie Compston
1928	La Boulie	Cyril Tolley (amateur) (2)	283	Aubrey Boomer, Ernest Whitcombe, Henry Kinch, Henry Cotton
1927	Saint-Germain	George Duncan (2)	299	Aubrey Boomer
1926	Saint-Cloud	Aubrey Boomer (3)	280	Abe Mitchell
1925	Chantilly	Arnaud Massy (4)	291 ^PO	Archie Compston
1924	La Boulie	Cyril Tolley (amateur)	290	Walter Hagen
1923	Dieppe	James Ockenden	288	Jack Gaudin
1922	La Boulie	Aubrey Boomer (2)	286	Eugène Laffitte
1921	Le Touquet	Aubrey Boomer	284 ^PO	Arnaud Massy
1920	La Boulie	Walter Hagen	298 ^PO	Eugène Laffitte
1915–19	No tournament due to World War I
1914	Le Touquet	James Douglas Edgar	288	Harry Vardon
1913	Chantilly	George Duncan	304	James Braid
1912	La Boulie	Jean Gassiat	289	Harry Vardon
1911	La Boulie	Arnaud Massy (3)	284	Ted Ray
1910	La Boulie	James Braid	298	Arnaud Massy
1909	La Boulie	John Henry Taylor (2)	293	James Braid
1908	La Boulie	John Henry Taylor	300	Arnaud Massy, Charles Mayo
1907	La Boulie	Arnaud Massy (2)	298	Jean Gassiat
1906	La Boulie	Arnaud Massy	292	Tom Vardon

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