Continue to travel during confinement with Par 72, the golf utility book of our friend and colleague Claude Granveaud-Vallat. In more than 40 years near golf, courses like champions, CGV has seen all the colors, especially green. With a pen and a camera, he traveled the world, played over a thousand courses. His memories deserved to be transmitted, gathered, told ...

Par 72, by Claude Granveaud-Vallat

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What could be better than spring confinement to take the time to write, to remember anecdotes buried deep in his memory. By choosing “Par 72” as the title of his book, the idea was to approach the ideal score in as many stories from his 1st French Open in 1976 in Le Touquet to the Parisian Ryder Cup.

For a very long time editor in chief of Golf Magazine, Claude was not always able to tell everything he knew, everything he had seen and heard. At a time when retirement is fast approaching, it was time to open his heart, to look back on trips that have marked him, on anecdotes lived alongside the champions as more personal things. His choice was tough, memories abounded, we had to choose while keeping to the number of 72, the ideal score, the quest of each so often inaccessible for most of us.

Par 72, by Claude Granveaud-Vallat

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"CGV" takes us to the five continents, he often makes us travel to South Africa, a country he knows well, to Canada where the morning encounter with a bear seems to have marked him, in the United States, in China , in Morocco, in Japan, in Tahiti, in Abu Dhabi, in Ireland, in Finland where he met Santa Claus in full swing! Just like in France, “at the corner of the street”, there the emotion transmitted by his prose is just as strong as at the end of the world. The shovel of photos on the cover of this book gives an idea of ​​what he went through, how lucky he was!

Par 72, by Claude Granveaud-Vallat

© Claude Granveaud-Vallat

At the time of confinement, at the time of the ban, this book is a breath of fresh air, loaded with chlorophyll, full of humor, self-mockery. A good book at the foot of the tree ...

Par 72, so many stories, anecdotes and memories related to Golf, by Claude Granveaud-Vallat.

Self-published, 199 pages, 22 € (excluding postage), available from November 20.

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