Playoff pain for van de Velde

There was joy and pain for the home crowd at the French Open as Jean van de Velde revisited the trauma of his 1999 Open nightmare to allow defending champion Jean-Francois Remesy to retain his title in a play-off.

Memories of van de Velde taking off his shoes and socks and rolling up his trousers after going into the Barry Burn on the 18th at Carnoustie came flooding back after he pulled his drive into the lake at the last at Le Golf National.