Strong Field in Rebetz

Jeff Lucquin, European Tour winner, is part of the strong field in Open International de Rebetz this week. (c) Getty Images Stuart Franklin

France is hosting the first event in continental Europe for the Alps Tour this week. Domaine de Rebetz, 60 km north east of Paris, is the venue of second edition of Open International de Rebetz.

Players were looking forward to starting the season and the battle announced on immaculate Rebetz greens is going to offer great show. The field this week is one of the strongest Alps Tour ever offered. There are two European Tour winners, Frenchmen Marc Farry and Jean-François Lucquin, one Challenge Tour winner, Dominique Nouailhac and no less than 29 Alps Tour winners including four of them three time winner : Austria’s Uli Weindhanl, Englishmen Steven Brown and Andrew Cooley and France’s Dominique Nouailhac.

Beside these talented players, five amateurs won an invitation to play with pros. They finished in top 5 of Grand Prix de Rebetz a fortnight ago. The winner was Mathieu Decottignies-Lafon, 4^th French amateur, ahead of Romain Vallayes, Edouard Hourdin, Thibault Santigny et Baptiste Mory.

Agathe Séron