Matthieu Pavon screams in celebration after hitting the profitable putt on the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open.
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History was made on Saturday at Torrey Pines’ South Course when Matthieu Pavon turned the primary French professional to win a PGA Tour occasion together with his triumph on the Farmers Insurance Open.
France doesn’t have an illustrious golf historical past in comparison with its European neighbors. When most golf followers take into consideration French golf, it’s a nasty reminiscence that pops up: Jean van de Velde’s historic collapse on the 72nd gap on the 1999 Open Championship.
‘It’s my call’: Farmers winner shunned caddie’s recommendation in decisive second
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So if you end up among the many French natives who do love golf, Pavon’s victory was a really large deal. If you’re French golf announcer, then it was an ever larger deal.
That a lot is made plain if solely you take heed to Adrien Toubiana’s epic call of Pavon’s profitable putt in French for Canal Plus Golf, which the PGA Tour shared on X after the dramatic ending to the Farmers.
The exuberant call was much more reminiscent of an announcer calling a objective in professional soccer than what you sometimes discover on golf TV within the U.S.
You can learn his call in full under, due to a translation offered by the Tour. And no, the exclamation factors should not extreme when in comparison with Toubiana’s shear pleasure.
TOUBIANA: Yes! Matthieu Pavon turns into the primary French participant to win a match on the PGA Tour! Fabulous! Who would have thought for his third match as a member of the PGA Tour he writes the historical past of male French golf.
You are a champion, Matthieu! You have an infinite coronary heart! You are merely an awesome one!
The guts. The psychological toughness of Matthieu Pavon to make his final birdie after we thought he may be preventing for par and possibly go to a playoff at greatest. And no. With expertise, together with his coronary heart, he will get this win.
Interestingly, after his win Pavon used the identical “guts” terminology to explain his determination to disregard his caddie’s recommendation and go for the inexperienced on the par-5 18th in three, a important alternative that arrange his profitable birdie putt.
To be taught extra about Pavon, learn Jessica Marksbury’s roundup of the eight greatest quotes from his entertaining winner’s press convention on the Farmers.
Of course, Pavon’s win was solely historic for the lads’s recreation. On the ladies’s aspect, Celine Boutier has been making historical past for France commonly. So far she has 4 LPGA victories, and final 12 months she captured her first main on the Evian Championship in France.
