Living Golf
SHOW #99
France
Following their successful bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, this month we're in France to find out how the French golf federation will be using the event to revolutionize the game in a country which has struggled to produce top flight talent.
We assess plans for their Ryder Cup legacy and delve into a French golf story of the past - Arnaud Massy. Born in 1877 to the son of a sheep farmer, he is to this day France's first and only Major winner. We retell his remarkable story from Biarritz and find out why his success has not translated to future generations of the game.
Shane will play a few holes of a new mini urban golf course in Paris - part of the Ryder Cup legacy plan to bring golf to the population - and the 18th hole of Le Golf National (the Ryder Cup course) alongside one of the few Frenchmen to ever play in a European Ryder Cup side, and winner of this year's French Open: Thomas Levet.
Finally we join in on a testing day with the French National team as they prepare for the European Amateur Championships to find out how the federation are creating a breeding ground for the French stars of the future.
Hotshots: Martin Kaymer demonstrates the chip shot.
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