The European Senior Tour returns this week to France for the first time since 2007 with the Cannes Mougins Masters from October 9-11th, 2010. This event will now have a real Ryder Cup flavour as the 2002 winning captain, Sam Torrance, is entered along with the victorious K Club 2006 duo of Ian Woosnam and his vice-captain, Des Smyth.
1987 Irish Ryder Cup hero at Muirfield Village, Eamonn Darcy, also plays along Antonio Garrido, who with Seve Ballesteros became the first Europeans to play in the event when the format was changed from just Great Britain and Ireland.
Other Spanish Ryder Cup legends, Jose Maria Cañizares and Jose Rivero of Spain will join Victor Garcia - Father of 2010 Vice-Captain, Sergio – and two other past players, Constantino Rocca of Italy and Gordon Brand Jnr from England.
The other Irish entries this week include Denis O’Sullivan, Jimmy Heggarty and Eddie Polland.
With a prize fund of €250,000 the tournament will play a decisive role in the Senior Tour Order of Merit, just a month before the season ending OKI Castellόn Senior Tour Championship.
The format has the Senior Tour professionals playing alongside an amateur partner on Saturday and Sunday, before the professionals contest the final round on Monday.
Cannes Mougins previously hosted the Cannes Open on The European Tour from 1984 to 2001, with the roll call of champions including Senior Tour players David Frost (1984), John Bland (1986), Mark McNulty (1988 and 1990) and Ian Woosnam (1994).
