Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue, resident of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche

Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche

Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.-History:Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche was built around 4 core hamlets near the Forest of Marly...

, France

France

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, who helped popularize the then little known sport of Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 in the country during the early 1960s. By convincing Pierre Menet

Pierre Menet

Pierre Menet is chairman emeritus of the French Lancôme Company. He is credited, along with Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue and Dominque Motte, with bringing the Canada Cup golf tournament to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in 1963, helping popularize the then little known sport of golf in France...

 to establish the Trophée Lancôme

Trophée Lancôme

The Trophée Lancôme was a professional golf tournament which was staged in France from 1970 to 2003.Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue, a French golf enthusiast from Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, hoped to popularize the then little-known sport of Golf in France during the early 1960s...

, he hoped to entice the world's best players to come to Saint-Nom and compete in prominent international tournaments.

He also won the Biarritz Cup twice, in 1957 and in 1961.