Jean-Lou Charon, the President of the French Golf Federation, and Pierre-Antoine Missud, the tournament director for Alexis Sikorsky and the Pitch & Play company, underline the success of the first Bossey Ladies Championship, an event which will be repeated the year next and which opens up many other perspectives ...
Interview by Nathalie Vion

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End-to-end success. With the complicity of an impeccable Haut-Savoyard sun, an expert Bossey Country Club, passionate and entirely devoted to the event. With the enthusiastic will of the Pitch & Play organizing team and with the invaluable support of the French Golf Federation, the Swiss Golf Association (ASG) and the Swiss Association of Independent Golfers (ASGI) ...

The first edition of the Bossey Ladies Championship could only be a success, first and foremost underlined by the LETAS players, welcomed with all the facilities and attention they deserve. Morgane Gaiddon, of the Pitch & Play team, has innovated in this direction as rarely seen before (dietetic catering, yoga-golf teacher available, naturopath, cocktail dinners with music, à la carte services ...) to make event a party where sports are at the center.

Jean-Lou Charon, the President of the French Golf Federation, traveled this Thursday, August 17 for the final round in Bossey. Just like Maurice Villard, the President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes League, also very enthusiastic.

After the beautiful show given by the play-off between Jane Turner and Noemi Jimenez and the first coronation for the Scottish, Jean-Lou Charon, whose deep ambition he has for the development of women's golf from the start is known. of his tenure at FFGolf, congratulated the organizers:

“Pitch & Play led this event very well. After this first edition of the Bossey Ladies Championship, we say thank you to Alexis Sikorsky and his company. Because this success will allow us to dream again in the future. This tournament was like a jewel in the setting that is the Club de Bossey. Quality of the event, quality of the course, quality of the site, everything deserves our return to Bossey and we therefore hope to be by your side again next year. "

Pierre-Antoine Missud, tournament director and Pitch & Play director confirmed that a second edition of this LETAS tournament would be held in Bossey in 2018. And that Pitch & Play would be awarded four European women's tournaments:

“The Pitch & Play team has struck a chord. We have already had enormous luck with the weather. Four sunny and hot days! The pro-am on Monday August 14 brought together 39 teams, which is rare. We had a fantastic welcome at the Bossey Country Club. We must thank the director, Stéphane Turin, the President, Guillaume Fouquet, and the Games Captain, Daniel Fleming. Hats off also to the field team who did a fabulous job.

With Alexis Sikorsky and our entire Pitch & Play team, we are happy to have been able to contribute our contribution to the building of professional women's golf in Europe. I can announce that we are thinking of organizing four women's tournaments in 2018. A priori four LETAS tournaments. With the idea that one of these tournaments will eventually be a LET event. "