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AFP and the French Golf Federation launch a partnership
Sport, along with strengthening the video offering, is a strategic editorial priority for AFP. With the 2016 Summer Olympics approaching and the Ryder Cup to be held in France in 2018, AFP and the French Golf Federation have formed a partnership to offer more content.
Under the agreement, AFP will provide the Federation with text, photo and data for its website. The Federation will in return provide videos of top French golfers playing on the elite European tour.
The partnership will allow the French Golf Federation to achieve one of its main objectives of raising the media profile of the game and its top players. It will continue until the Ryder Cup, which in 2018 will be held in France for the first time -- on the Albatros course at the Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. For more than a century, the Ryder Cup has pitted the best players from Europe and the United States against one another every two years.
Sport is one of the Agency’s strategic priorities. The sports service has almost 150 journalists worldwide working in six languages: French, English, Spanish, Arabic Portuguese and German (via its subsidiary SID). It covers golf and all of world football, the Olympic sports, motor sport (Formula One, rallies and MotoGP), rugby, NBA and cricket. It also provides complete multimedia coverage of major events such as the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the Euro Football Championship.
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About the French Golf Federation
The union of french golf courses, created in 1912, became the French Golf Federation in 1933. It was agreed by the French Ministery of sports in 1975 and gather today more than 400 000 members. They were 20 000 in 1970, 20 000 in 1970, 38 783 in 1980, 181 147 in 1990 and 291 754 in 2000. The increase of golf over the last 30 years is one of the most spectacular in French sport.