Before hoping to shine on the national golf course at the Olympic Games in Paris, at home, Matthieu Pavon has a date in Troon, Scotland, where the British Open, the last Major of the season, is taking place from this Thursday. A season where the French number one has particularly shone.
Of the 15 tournaments he has played in since the start of the year, the Toulouse native has finished on the podium twice (winner of the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego and third at the AT&T Pebble Beach) and recently impressed by finishing fifth at the US Open. Especially since this performance came after a period of decline for the Frenchman.
At the second Major of the year, the PGA Championship, Matthieu Pavon was not even able to play at the weekend, worn out by the many trips he had been making for many weeks. However, his 12th place at the Augusta Masters, the first Major, was only a month old.
But the US Open put him back in the upper echelons of world golf, and above all, gave him back his confidence, he who was still second on the morning of the last day. “It’s great to experience that, to be in the last game and to live all these emotional moments. Being paired with the winning player, seeing how to manage certain holes and certain ups and downs, it was very instructive. I learned a lot of things again,” he confided after the tournament.
Don’t dwell on Scottish Open failure
Since then, Pavon has finished 16th at the Travelers Championship, the final Signature Event of the PGA Tour season, and missed the Scottish Open weekend. So it is with a spirit of revenge that the 31-year-old golfer arrives in Troon, also in Scotland, for the final Major of the year, on a golf course he does not know.
The reconnaissance rounds, especially on the last holes of the course, must have been precious for Pavon. In Troon, the Frenchman will have to build up the maximum confidence with good results. This will be before starting the Olympic Games, in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Let’s hope that at home, he can shine as much as he has done all around the world this year.
