Anaïs Bégo wins women's Grand Prix de Ploemeur at 16

Sixteen years old, two days of wind off the Atlantic, and a trophy that no longer fits in the junior cabinet. Anaïs Bégo, the young golfer from Golf de Baden, took the women's title at the Grand Prix de la ville de Ploemeur on Sunday, July 19, 2026, confirming what her Saturday round had already telegraphed: the junior circuits of Morbihan and Brittany are no longer large enough for her.

The setting, the Bluegreen Ploemeur Océan course in the Lorient suburb, is the kind of place where experience usually pays. Perched on the Breton coast and described by the tournament's organizers as l'un des plus beaux parcours du littoral breton — one of the most beautiful courses on the Breton coast — it hosted 120 players over the weekend, 96 amateurs and 26 professionals representing 32 clubs, 22 of them from outside Brittany. On Sunday, however, none of that weight mattered quite as much as a calm pair of hands and a swing that has been quietly built over thirteen years of work.

Le vent s'est invité le dimanche, as the local press put it. It did not derail Bégo. After taking the first-round lead on Saturday, the Badenoise held off a field of more decorated rivals — the names that had headed the pre-tournament chatter: Audrey Goumard of Avrillé, Annaick Mallejac of Carquefou, Marie-Sophie Barré of Rennes, and Charlotte Blanchard of Cicé-Blossac. None of those four was holding the trophy when the last putt dropped. The headline instead went to a 16-year-old who, twelve months earlier, was still winning the U16 F category of the Morbihan youth championship on this very layout, with rounds of 78 and 84.

Her closest challenger was a familiar face. Laura Cararon, Bégo's partner at Golf de Baden, finished second, a result that reads less like a duel and more like a club celebration. A 1-2 for Baden, in a Grand Prix typically dominated by players from larger clubs and broader circuits, was the clearest signal of the weekend: a small club on the Morbihan coast has been developing, and the rest of the women's amateur field has been put on notice.

Thirteen years of swing

It did not happen in a hurry. Bégo has been playing the game since she was three years old, and her first competition came at nine. The technical foundations, the comfort on links-style coastal turf, the wind game — all of it predates her secondary school homework by a wide margin.

J'ai commencé le golf à mes trois ans et j'ai fait ma première compétition à neuf ans.

— Anaïs Bégo, quoted in Ouest-France, 19 July 2026

What has changed is the calendar. Bégo's school year this spring was dominated by the bac de Français, the standardized exam French students sit at the end of their première year. Practice time shrunk, but the work of the previous season — and the Morbihan and Brittany youth titles she had already accumulated — held up under tournament pressure.

J'ai beaucoup travaillé la saison dernière et cela a porté ses fruits. J'ai eu moins de temps cette année, car je passais mon bac de Français.

— Anaïs Bégo, quoted in Ouest-France, 19 July 2026

And she is honest about where the limits still sit. Adult Grand Prix fields are a different animal from youth events. The wind off the coast is the same, the Ploemeur greens are the same, but the company on the tee is older and more traveled.

Je fais encore quelques petites erreurs sur les parcours et le fait de concourir chez les adultes me permet de m'inspirer et de faire évoluer mon golf.

— Anaïs Bégo, quoted in Ouest-France, 19 July 2026

The view from the clubhouse

The Grand Prix de Ploemeur has long been the last major checkpoint of the Morbihan amateur season, and the field this year reflected that. The course is technical — wind exposure on a coastal layout rewards patience and recovery play — and the local club, the Association sportive du golf Ploemeur Océan, pulled together an event that brought clubs from across the country to the Breton south coast. Pavel Jirsa, the director of the Plœmeur Océan and Val-Quéven courses, framed the venue in regional terms, and the city's mayor, Ronan Loas, joined by his deputy for sport Christian Perrien, opened the weekend in the language of Breton sport: performance, fair-play, and the showcasing of an exceptional site.

Last year the men's title went to the Côtes-d'Armor player Baptiste Touchard. This year it was the turn of Nicolas Voisin, a Vendéen, to take the men's trophy, completing a weekend that split the honors between two regions better known for sailing than for swing. Bégo's win was the headline in the women's event, but the home crowd had reasons to mark both trophies in the local press.

What the next month looks like

Bégo is not letting the trophy sit on a shelf for long. The next stop is already on the calendar: the Grand Prix de Val Quéven, at the end of August, on a course she knows from the local youth circuit. The objective is articulated with the matter-of-fact tone of a player who has begun to plan a season rather than chase one event.

Je participerai fin août au Grand Prix de Val Quéven et j'aimerais bien regagner un deuxième Grand Prix en individuel prochainement.

— Anaïs Bégo, quoted in Ouest-France, 19 July 2026

There is also a longer arc in the background. Bégo wants the kind of result that would put her on the tee at the French adult championships — a step up, in her words, that would mark a new ceiling for the junior run that has, until this month, defined her competitive identity.

J'aimerais bien passer encore un cap et participer aux championnats de France chez les adultes.

— Anaïs Bégo, quoted in Ouest-France, 19 July 2026

For now, the math is simple. A first adult Grand Prix, a 1-2 for Baden, a checkmark next to Ploemeur-Océan, and a 16-year-old who already has the next tee time booked. The Breton coast has produced another golfer worth tracking; the rest of the Morbihan amateur circuit will be sorting out the matchups accordingly.

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