French Senior Open
Encyclopedia
The French Senior Open is a professional golf
tournament for men aged fifty and above on the European Seniors Tour
. It was played in 2004 and after a two year hiatus it will be played from 12 to 14 July 2007 at Golf du Domaine de Divonne in Divonne-les-Bains
, ten miles north of Geneva
. The prize fund will be €
325,000.
European Seniors Tour events were held in France in 1992, 1994 and 1998, but it is not clear from the official site whether these are classified as previous incarnations of the current tournament, or as one-off tournaments in their own right.
Open de France Seniors
Elf Seniors Open
D Day Seniors Open
La Bresse Seniors
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament for men aged fifty and above on the European Seniors Tour
European Seniors Tour
The European Seniors Tour is a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over run by the PGA European Tour.The Tour was founded in 1992. In 2008 it had a total prize fund of €7,729,284, so it is much further behind the U.S.-based Champions Tour in relative prize money than the main European...
. It was played in 2004 and after a two year hiatus it will be played from 12 to 14 July 2007 at Golf du Domaine de Divonne in Divonne-les-Bains
Divonne-les-Bains
Divonne-les-Bains, is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.It is a popular spa town.Divonne lies on the border with French-speaking Switzerland, between the foot of the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva. Geneva itself is 20 minutes away on the Swiss autoroute to the south-west...
, ten miles north of Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
. The prize fund will be €
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
325,000.
European Seniors Tour events were held in France in 1992, 1994 and 1998, but it is not clear from the official site whether these are classified as previous incarnations of the current tournament, or as one-off tournaments in their own right.
Winners
Open de France de Divonne- 2007 Juan QuirósJuan QuirosJuan Quirós Segura is a Spanish professional golfer.Quirós was born in La Linea, Andalusia. He played on the European Tour most seasons from 1983 to 2000, making the top one hundred on the Order of Merit three times...
- - 2005-06 No tournament
Open de France Seniors
- 2004 Bob Cameron -
- 1999-2003 No tournament
Elf Seniors Open
- 1998 Brian WaitesBrian WaitesBrian Waites is an English professional golfer.Waites turned professional in 1957 and played on the European Tour through most of the 1970s and 1980s. He was in his prime between 1978 and 1984, ranking between 10th and 22nd on the Order of Merit in each of those seven years. He won two European...
- - 1995-97 No tournament
D Day Seniors Open
- 1994 Brian WaitesBrian WaitesBrian Waites is an English professional golfer.Waites turned professional in 1957 and played on the European Tour through most of the 1970s and 1980s. He was in his prime between 1978 and 1984, ranking between 10th and 22nd on the Order of Merit in each of those seven years. He won two European...
- - 1993 No tournament
La Bresse Seniors
- 1992 José Maria Roca -