Azahara Munoz victorious of
Lacoste Ladies Open de France in 2013
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It brings together 78 players of the Ladies European Tour, who will compete for the trophy and the largest share of an endowment of 250 euros. Among the headliners, the Spanish Azahara Muñoz, defending champion, and the French Gwladys Nocera, 000nd last year, will have to face some of the finest blades in European women's golf.

As she prepares to play her 3rd consecutive Lacoste Ladies Open de France, Azahara Munoz will have a lot to do to keep the title won at Chantaco last year. The Spaniard is however presenting herself as the main candidate for her own succession, as 15th in the world and the best ranked player in the field this week. But the one who plays full time on the American circuit, where she currently occupies an enviable 9th place, will have to contain the assaults of the best golfers of the Ladies European Tour. Starting with those of former European number 1 Sophie Gustafson (Swedish, crowned in 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2009) and Carlota Ciganda (Spanish, winner in 2012).

Azahara presents the watch offered by
the official sponsor Richard Mille
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The last tournament of the season to be played on European soil, before the final sprint in Asia and the Middle East, the Lacoste Ladies Open de France is, like every year, of strategic importance for players from the Old Continent. Among them, the tournament winners in 2014, the English Charley Hull and Florentyna Parker and the French Julie Greciet, regional of the stage as a native of Bayonne, will be keen to do it again. Without forgetting the experienced Gwladys Nocera and Nikki Campbell (Australia), who respectively occupy the 4th and 5th places in the order of merit of the Ladies European Tour, and will try to score valuable points in order to win the crown of number 1 European in end of season.

In addition to Greciet, winner in July of the first tournament of her career in the Czech Republic, and Nocera, 12 times winner of the LET and best player in Europe in 2008, other French women will come to the start with the ambition to succeed Stéphanie Arricau, last Tricolore crowned in its national open in 2004. Confirmed players such as Anne-Lise Caudal, Jade Schaeffer, Cassandra Kirkland and Caroline Afonso, but also the hopes of French women's golf such as Ariane Provot, Marion Ricordeau, Isabelle Boineau and young amateurs Eva Gilly and Marion Veysseyre.