| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Paris, France |
| Established | 1906 |
| Course(s) | Le Golf National |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,300 yards |
| Tour(s) | European Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | € 3,000,000 |
| Month played | July |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 262 Lu Liang-Huan (1971) |
| To par | -23 Barry Jaeckel (1972) |
| Current champion | |
| Thomas Levet | |
The Open de France is a European Tour golf tournament. Inaugurated in 1906 it is the oldest national open in Continental Europe and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the tour's inception in 1972.
Originally played at La Boulie Golf Club, the tournament has been hosted by many different venues, but since 1991, it has been held at the Le Golf National near Paris every year except for 1999 and 2001.
Since the turn of the Millennium the Fédération Française de Golf has made a concerted effort to enhance the stature of the event. One of these measures included the dropping of title sponsorship from 2003. In 2004 qualifying tournaments were introduced on the model of those for The Open Championship and the U.S. Open and are open to professionals and amateurs. The prize fund rose from €865,000 in 1999 to €4 million from 2006 to 2009, putting the Open de France in the top group of European Tour events (excluding the majors and the World Golf Championships, which are co-sanctioned by the U.S. based PGA Tour). For 2010 and 2011 the prize fund was reduced to €3 million.
| Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner(s)-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alstom Open de France | |||||
| 2011 | Le Golf National | Thomas Levet | 277 (−7) | Mark Foster, Thorbjørn Olesen | |
| 2010 | Le Golf National | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 273 (−11)PO | Alejandro Cañizares, Francesco Molinari | |
| Open de France ALSTOM | |||||
| 2009 | Le Golf National | Martin Kaymer | 271 (−13)PO | Lee Westwood | |
| 2008 | Le Golf National | Pablo Larrazábal | 269 (−15) | Colin Montgomerie | |
| 2007 | Le Golf National | Graeme Storm | 277 (−7) | Søren Hansen | |
| 2006 | Le Golf National | John Bickerton | 273 (−11) | Pádraig Harrington | |
| Open de France | |||||
| 2005 | Le Golf National | Jean-François Remésy | 273 (−11)PO | Jean van de Velde | |
| 2004 | Le Golf National | Jean-François Remésy | 272 (−12) | Richard Green, Nick O'Hern | |
| 2003 | Le Golf National | Philip Golding | 273 (−15) | David Howell | |
| Novotel Perrier Open de France | |||||
| 2002 | Le Golf National | Malcolm MacKenzie | 274 (−14) | Trevor Immelman | |
| 2001 | Lyon Villette | José María Olazábal | 268(−12) | Greg Turner, Paul Eales, Costantino Rocca | |
| 2000 | Le Golf National | Colin Montgomerie | 272 (−16) | Jonathan Lomas | |
| 1999 | Pian Médoc | Retief Goosen | 272 (−12)PO | Greg Turner | |
| Peugeot Open de France | |||||
| 1998 | Le Golf National | Sam Torrance | 276 (−12) | Massimo Florioli, Bernhard Langer, Mathew Goggin, Olivier Edmond |
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| 1997 | Le Golf National | Retief Goosen | 271 (−17) | Jamie Spence | |
| 1996 | Le Golf National | Robert Allenby | 272 (−16)PO | Bernhard Langer | |
| 1995 | Le Golf National | Paul Broadhurst | 274 (−14) | Neal Briggs | |
| 1994 | Le Golf National | Mark Roe | 274 (−14) | Gabriel Hjertstedt | |
| 1993 | Le Golf National | Costantino Rocca | 273(−11)PO | Paul McGinley | |
| 1992 | Le Golf National | Miguel Ángel Martín | 276 (−8) | Martin Poxon | |
| 1991 | Le Golf National | Eduardo Romero | 281 (−7) | José María Olazábal, Sam Torrance | |
| 1990 | Chantilly | Philip Walton | 275 (−5)PO | Bernhard Langer | |
| 1989 | Chantilly | Nick Faldo | 273 (−7) | Hugh Baiocchi, Mark Roe, Bernhard Langer | |
| 1988 | Chantilly | Nick Faldo | 274 (−6) | Dennis Durnian, Wayne Riley | |
| 1987 | Saint-Cloud | José Rivero | 269 (−19) | Howard Clark | |
| 1986 | La Boulie | Seve Ballesteros | 269 (−19) | Vicente Fernández | |
| 1985 | Saint-Germain | Seve Ballesteros | 263 (−21) | Sandy Lyle | |
| 1984 | Saint-Cloud | Bernhard Langer | 270 (−18) | José Rivero | |
| Paco Rabanne Open de France | |||||
| 1983 | La Boulie | Nick Faldo | 277 (−11)PO | José Maria Cañizares, David J Russell | |
| 1982 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche | Seve Ballesteros | 278 (−10) | Sandy Lyle | |
| 1981 | Saint-Germain | Sandy Lyle | 270 (−14) | Bernhard Langer | |
| 1980 | Saint-Cloud | Greg Norman | 268 (−20) | Ian Mosey | |
| French Open | |||||
| 1979 | Lyon | Bernard Gallacher | 284 (−8) | William Milne | |
| 1978 | La Baule | Dale Hayes | 269 (−19) | Seve Ballesteros | |
| 1977 | Le Touquet | Seve Ballesteros | 282 (−6) | Antonio Garrido, Manuel Piñero, John Bland, Ian Stanley |
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| 1976 | Le Touquet | Vincent Tshabalala | 272 (−16) | Salvador Balbuena | |
| 1975 | La Boulie | Brian Barnes | 281 (−7) | Neil Coles, Eamonn Darcy, Dale Hayes, John O'Leary |
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| 1974 | Chantilly | Peter Oosterhuis | 284 (+4) | Peter Townsend | |
| 1973 | La Boulie | Peter Oosterhuis | 280 (−4) | Tony Jacklin | |
| 1972 | Biarritz La Nivelle | Barry Jaeckel | 265 (−23)PO | Clive Clark | |
| 1971 | Biarritz | Lu Liang-Huan | 262 (−10) | Roberto De Vicenzo, Vicente Fernández | |
| Open de France | |||||
| 1970 | Chantaco | David Graham | 268 | Jean Garaïalde, Florentino Molina | |
| 1969 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche | Jean Garaïalde | 277 PO | Roberto De Vicenzo | |
| 1968 | Saint-Cloud | Peter Butler | 272 | ||
| 1967 | Saint-Germain | Bernard Hunt | 271 | Peter Butler | |
| 1966 | La Boulie | Denis Hutchinson | 274 | ||
| 1965 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche | Ramón Sota | 268 | Cobie LeGrange | |
| 1964 | Chantilly | Roberto De Vicenzo | 272PO | Cobie LeGrange | |
| 1963 | Saint-Cloud | Bruce Devlin | 273 | Kel Nagle | |
| 1962 | Saint-Germain | Alan Murray | 274 | Peter Thomson, Bob Charles | |
| 1961 | La Boulie | Kel Nagle | 271 | Peter Thomson | |
| 1960 | Saint-Cloud | Roberto De Vicenzo | 275 | Leopoldo Ruiz, Bill Johnston | |
| 1959 | La Boulie | Dave Thomas | 276 | Peter Alliss | |
| 1958 | Saint-Germain | Flory Van Donck | 276PO | Harold Henning | |
| 1957 | Saint-Cloud | Flory Van Donck | 266 | ||
| 1956 | Deauville | Ángel Miguel | 277 | Antonio Cerdá, Trevor Wilkes, Flory Van Donck | |
| 1955 | La Boulie | Byron Nelson | 271 | Harry Weetman | |
| 1954 | Saint-Cloud | Flory Van Donck | 275 | Aldo Casera, Norman Von Nida | |
| 1953 | La Boulie | Bobby Locke | 276 | Max Faulkner | |
| 1952 | Saint-Germain | Bobby Locke | 268 | Antonio Cerdá | |
| 1951 | Saint-Cloud | Hassan Hassanein | 278 | ||
| 1950 | Chantilly | Roberto De Vicenzo | 279 | ||
| 1949 | Saint-Germain | Ugo Grappasonni | 275 | ||
| 1948 | Saint-Cloud | Firmin Cavalo | 287 | ||
| 1947 | Chantilly | Henry Cotton | 285 | ||
| 1946 | Saint-Cloud | Henry Cotton | 269 | ||
| 1940–45 | No tournament due to World War II | ||||
| 1939 | Le Touquet | Martin Pose | 285 | ||
| 1938 | Fourqueux | Marcel Dallemagne | 282 | ||
| 1937 | Saint-Cloud | Marcel Dallemagne | 278 | ||
| 1936 | Saint-Germain | Marcel Dallemagne | 277 PO | ||
| 1935 | Le Touquet | Sid Brews | 293 | ||
| 1934 | Dieppe | Sid Brews | 284 | ||
| 1933 | Chantilly | Bert Gadd | 283 | ||
| 1932 | Saint-Cloud | Arthur Lacey | 295 | ||
| 1931 | Deauville | Aubrey Boomer | 291 | Tomas Genta | |
| 1930 | Dieppe | Ernest Whitcombe | 282 | ||
| 1929 | Fourqueux | Aubrey Boomer | 283 | ||
| 1928 | La Boulie | Cyril Tolley (amateur) | 283 | ||
| 1927 | Saint-Germain | George Duncan | 299 | ||
| 1926 | Saint-Cloud | Aubrey Boomer | 280 | ||
| 1925 | Chantilly | Arnaud Massy | 291 | ||
| 1924 | La Boulie | Cyril Tolley (amateur) | 290 | ||
| 1923 | Dieppe | James Ockenden | 288 | ||
| 1922 | La Boulie | Aubrey Boomer | 286 | ||
| 1921 | Le Touquet | Aubrey Boomer | 284 PO | ||
| 1920 | La Boulie | Walter Hagen | 298 PO | ||
| 1915–19 | No tournament due to World War I | ||||
| 1914 | Le Touquet | James Douglas Edgar | 288 | ||
| 1913 | Chantilly | George Duncan | 304 | ||
| 1912 | La Boulie | Jean Gassiat | 289 | ||
| 1911 | La Boulie | Arnaud Massy | 284 | ||
| 1910 | La Boulie | James Braid | 298 | ||
| 1909 | La Boulie | John Henry Taylor | 293 | ||
| 1908 | La Boulie | John Henry Taylor | 300 | ||
| 1907 | La Boulie | Arnaud Massy | 298 | Jean Gassiat | |
| 1906 | La Boulie | Arnaud Massy | 292 | ||