Play your rookies early at Ryder Cup, says France's Van de Velde


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  • Saturday, 22 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO: Jean Van de Velde, French former player and director of the French Open golf tournament, poses at the Golf National course in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris July 5, 2012. Picture taken July 5, 2012. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe team captain Thomas Bjorn should give his rookies game time on the first day of next week's Ryder Cup to settle nerves on a French course that demands precision shot-making, Jean Van de Velde said on Friday.

Van de Velde, one of only three Frenchmen to ever play in the Ryder Cup, speaks from personal experience: he was forced to sit out the first two days in the 1999 competition and lost his Sunday singles.

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