{"id":3982,"date":"2024-11-13T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aea0-041728585243.wptiger.fr\/jean-dethrones-gary-at-jean-baptiste\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:17:25","slug":"jean-dethrones-gary-at-jean-baptiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/jean-dethrones-gary-at-jean-baptiste\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean dethrones Gary at Jean-Baptiste!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>It&#8217;s official: the Gary Player room becomes the Jean Van de Velde room! No winning tournament, just a tribute to the golfer and the man. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After a week of pure conviviality at La Plonploni\u00e8re with the French golfer and his family, the change came naturally. What better way to honor a simple, accessible and loyal man than by naming one of the rooms after him? This encounter with a passionate personality who loves to pass on and share is exactly what La Plonploni\u00e8re is all about, the expression of its founding values.  <\/p>\n<p>South African golfer Gary Player makes way for Jean Van de Velde, known for being the first Frenchman in golfing history to take part in the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Jean Van de Velde in 1996 during the PGA France in Martinique, he let Jean-Baptiste try out his driver. Last September, thanks to Thierry David, former editor-in-chief of Canal+ Golf who follows the hotelier on the networks, the famous French player came to stay at La Plonploni\u00e8re. He came to run the tenth Legends Open de France at the Touquet Golf Resort and took the opportunity to discover the B&amp;B.  <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight years after a first meeting, two paths cross again, two passionate men reconnect. The story comes full circle, and a room gains in personality! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: the Gary Player room becomes the Jean Van de Velde room! No winning tournament, just a tribute to the golfer and the man. After a week of pure conviviality at La Plonploni\u00e8re with the French golfer and his family, the change came naturally. What better way to honor a simple, accessible and loyal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laplonploniere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}