The Ladies European Tour (LET) is in France this week for the 23rd stop of the 2025 season – the Lacoste Ladies Open de France.
Golf Barrière in Deauville is the venue for the fourth consecutive year and this year sees the 35th edition of the tournament.
Before play gets underway on Thursday, here are five storylines for the week ahead…
Former champions in town
Of the 96 player field in France, a total of four former champions will be teeing it up in the 2025 edition of the Lacoste Ladies Open de France. Last year’s champion Chiara Tamburlini returns having defeated Australia’s Kirsten Rudgeley by rolling in a birdie on the first playoff hole here in 2024.
She is also joined by Sweden’s Johanna Wrigley (formerly Gustavsson) who secured a three-stroke victory at this venue in 2023. Two French former champions are also in attendance with Celine Boutier (2021) and Celine Herbin (2015) both teeing it up.
10 years since Herbin won at home
This week marks 10 years since France’s Celine Herbin won her home open and her first LET title in a dramatic playoff. In 2015, she defeated Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pedersen to claim her maiden professional victory.
Herbin won with a par on the third extra hole at Golf de Chantaco and at the time, became the first home winner of the event in 11 years. After rolling in her par putt, she collapsed on the 18th green and was soaked with champagne by her peers.
Newest LET champion teeing it up
Last week 16-year-old rookie Anna Huang secured her maiden LET title storming to a seven-stroke victory at La Sella Open. The Canadian produced a dominant display of golf with rounds of 64-66-69-69 to win with a total of 20-under-par.
Huang was 16 years, 10 months and 22 days at the time of her win and became the second Canadian to win on the LET – after Brooke Henderson won the 2022 Amundi Evian Championship.
French stars out in force
There are 17 French players in the field this week made up of 14 professionals and three amateurs. Alongside former champions Boutier and Herbin, are fellow French LET winner Anne-Lise Caudal, Camille Chevalier and Anne-Charlotte Mora.
Also teeing it up will be Nastasia Nadaud, who came second last week at La Sella, rookie Vanessa Bouvet, LETAS winner Emma Falcher, and amateurs Giselle Zhao, Manon Petitcolas and Lily Reitter.
Order of Merit heating up
With just five events left of the 2025 season, the LET Order of Merit is hotting up with England’s Mimi Rhodes still at the top of the rankings and now has 2,023.49 points to her name. The top eight players in the rankings are all in attendance this week hoping to acquire more points.
There is a lot on the line with the top three in the Order of Merit receiving a bonus pool; meanwhile, the top 10 secure their spot at the Final Qualifying of LPGA Q-Series in December.
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