After Helen Briem’s magnificent win in Spain the Ladies European Tour (LET) heads to Normandy this week for the 2024 Lacoste Ladies Open de France.
For the third consecutive year the tournament will be staged at the Diane Barrière course at Golf Barrière, Deauville, in northwestern France.
A total of 96 players from 29 nations will tee up in the 54-hole stroke play event with this year marking its 34th edition. Action gets underway on Thursday 26th September.
Swedish star Johanna Gustavsson is defending her title after clinching an emotional maiden LET win last time out. The 31-year-old secured a three-shot victory over Moa Folke in her 129th start on Tour last September.
2022 champion Ines Laklalech is also in the field. The Olympian made history with her playoff victory over Meghan MacLaren two years ago when she became the first Moroccan, Arab, and North African winner on the LET.
No fewer than 17 French players will be competing on home soil including Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, the two-time LET winner who has two runner-up finishes to her name in the last two events.
The ever-energetic Frenchwoman is joined by Anne-Lise Caudal – making her 20th Open de France appearance – and 2024 PING Junior Solheim Cup stars Sara Brentcheneff and Alice Kong. The latter is the youngest player in the field aged 14-and-a-half.
As the LET Order of Merit heats up at the tail-end of the season the top three players in the standings will all be teeing up in Deauville. Switzerland’s Chiara Tamburlini, England’s Bronte Law and Belgium’s Manon De Roey are all chasing their second win of the season in France. Just 123.09 points separate Tamburlini at the top and De Roey in third with six events remaining this season.
Elsewhere, four more winners from 2024 will be teeing up at Golf Barrière. Joining the trio in this circle are Germany’s Briem – now a full-time LET member thanks to her La Sella heroics – Singapore’s Shannon Tan, and English duo Annabel Dimmock and Amy Taylor.
The winner of this year’s Lacoste Ladies Open de France will be crowned on Saturday 28 September following a cut of the top 60 players and ties after round two. This year’s competition offers a prize fund of €375,000.
As with the last two editions, Golf Barrière will host an open-air art gallery, with avant-garde works of art on site to be enjoyed by all, thanks to the title sponsor, Lacoste. Included in this is a stage on the opening hole which serves as a launchpad for the tournament.
Entry for spectators is free and the tournament will once again offer a unique experience, combining golf and art.
You can follow all the action throughout the event on our socials – @LETgolf on Instagram, TikTok and X, and Ladies European Tour on YouTube and Facebook – #RaiseOurGame | #LLODF
