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Christophe, in a question and answer session on Twitter at his initiative, the Ministry of Sports suggested that golf could be played in part from 4 from the date of effective resumption of activity. Can the ffgolf confirm this information? Moreover, you still have not expressed yourself on the conditions of this recovery while impatience grows. What are you waiting for?

Since the first days of confinement, we have worked in close and permanent collaboration with professional organizations in the sector, to make a rapid resumption of golf activity possible. Thanks to this constant mobilization, and after numerous exchanges with the Ministry of Sports and all the Ministries concerned by the management of this unprecedented health crisis, we convinced our interlocutors that golf could be among the first deconfined sports.

In particular, the production of a complete protocol for resuming play was produced to specify the conditions. The response formulated yesterday by the Ministry of Sports in this question and answer session on Twitter shows that there is no major obstacle in front of us thanks to all the work accomplished. However, there are still details to be worked out. You will understand, in view of the situation, and new information likely to be brought to our knowledge day after day, that these details are of the greatest importance.

The biggest risk that lies in wait for us would be to cry victory, before having crossed the finish line, before having entered the last put on the 18th hole. The evolution of the health situation itself, could invite the Government to backtrack.

This is why we continue to interact with the Ministries concerned, in real time, hour by hour, to arrive at the final recommendations that we will present very soon and very widely. It seems to me necessary, as I answer your questions, to be very careful with what can be said and published here or there.

From hearing you, one could deduce that there is complexity.

We have the responsibility to protect the players but also all the staff of the clubs who will be mobilized daily. You will agree that we have a duty to be very precise and complete for all the players. We are finalizing our recommendations on barrier gestures and distancing for all golfers and for all facets of the practice of our sport.

We also prepare the same type of document for each profession. Everyone's health is at stake. We are doing this work in consultation with all professional organizations. The subject is not fundamentally complexity but the absolute necessity of rigor. On the other hand, there is a real complexity linked to the classification of departments in red / green and the consequences that it will induce.

You therefore call on all players to be patient for a few more days.

Yes. This is exactly the call we are making. We appeal to the utmost civility and the responsibility of all. It is essential to respect the health instructions set by the government in the interest of the entire sector. Just a little more patience. A particularly essential quality, when we practice our beautiful sport.

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