Remesy races into Ryder reckoning

THERE is a real chance of 40-year-old Jean-Francois Remesy making Europe's Ryder Cup team after yesterday becoming the first home winner of the French Open for 35 years.

Six years on from being close to giving up the sport following a 12th consecutive visit to the qualifying school, Remesy leapt from 24th in the cup race to seventh with a massive seven-stroke victory the biggest of the season so far at Le Golf National near Paris.

"I don't realise for the moment what it means," he said after being thrown in the lake by the 18th green. Look back a few years and I could not imagine this. Other than a major I can't win anything bigger."