France is glad to host the 2009 International European Amateur Championship. It will take place in Chantilly Golf Club one of our most prestigious course. Chantilly, which celebrates this year its 100th anniversary, received across this century numerous and prestigious competitions.

The landscape of the course, its technical difficulties, its atmosphere, are the elements that define this mythical place.
I know the welcome given to all competitors will be great and a champion will be concecrated. I am also convinced that all players will leave Chantilly and France delighted.

May the best players win.
                                                                                    Georges BARBARET
                                                                          President French Golf Federation

On behalf of the members of Golf de Chantilly, I am delighted to welcome you all to our Club for the 22nd International European Amateur Championship. Previous winners of this event include Sergio Garcia (1995), Grégory Havret (1999) and Rory McIlroy (2006) who have been most successful since then.

I am sure that all competitors will be eager to add their name to the Trophy, thus securing a place in the 2010 Open Championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, and follow Matteo Manassero’s outstanding achievement as winner of the Silver Medal at Turnberry.

Having hosted the European Amateur Team Championship in 1983, the European Boys Team Championship in 1987 and the European Young Masters in 2008, we are very pleased to host this major international event on the occasion of our centenary year.

Looking at our Club’s championship boards in the Dining Room, you will find the names of some of our game’s most distinguished lady, amateur and professional champions, including those of Arnaud Massy, George Duncan, Henry Cotton, Robert de Vicenzo and Nick Faldo, all winners of the Open Championship.

I hope that you will find our course challenging and enjoyable and that you will keep fond memories of your visit to our Club.

                                                                                    Alexis Godillot
                                                                          Chantilly Golf Club President