OPEN DE FRANCE

October 13, 2024

Gregory Havret

Le Golf National

Quick Quotes

Q. This is your 560th DP World Tour event, your final one, your home hope. Describe your emotions right now.

GRÉGORY HAVRET: This is big. I started years ago in '97 and well finished 27 years on tour, The French Open means a lot for me. I started in Trophée Lancôme, which is also French soil, and there's been so many things in this area that happen with me professionally, many stuff up-and-down and also family-wise.

My father would be really proud, but he passed away, what, 12, 13 years ago. I mean, it's a huge mix of emotions, and this is a huge family for me. I have obviously my blood family, my kids and wife and mother and brothers, and I'm thinking a lot about them, and my father is up there somewhere watching me.

I'm just leaving this tour, and I enjoyed every single minute, as I said to the boys a few days ago, we had quite a big dinner, 50 of us on Tuesday night, I was happy to make the cut after that. It's just a family because we spoke about so many things that even a bad day or travel with the bags from the airport or the three-putt on the last one. We had so many good dinners and so many chats about it, and so many things all together that are stopping in a way, because I'm not stopping everything in golf obviously, but yeah, it's a little bit hard for me right now.

But I enjoy it so much.

Q. You mentioned the DP World Tour, what does it mean to you?

GRÉGORY HAVRET: Yeah, we are quite close all together. We have so many stories on and off the course. So having them, having the crowd at home, I can't stop in a better moment.

And I feel free. I'm very happy with it and I don't regret anything. Yeah, it's just a dot and we turn the page, and it's a new chapter. But that chapter was good.

Q. If there's one memory you could pick out of the 560 events you've played on the DP World Tour, what would it be?

GRÉGORY HAVRET: Very good question. I'm always in between the win in Scotland against Mickelson obviously, Scottish Open, because you have the trophy in the end.

And of course, the second spot at U.S. Open in 2010 was something playing with Tiger at Pebble Beach. But I would say the U.S. Open one because this is the last round my father saw me playing. It's obviously something, he passed away a few months later, and having him, this memory, Tiger Woods, Pebble Beach, having a chance, six-foot on the last to force the playoff maybe was something. So yeah, I would say that day was the one.