Pascal Edmond
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Pascal Edmond is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 professional golf
Golf
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Edmond was born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and turned professional in 1991. His brother Olivier
Olivier Edmond
Olivier Edmond is a French professional golfer.Edmond was born in Paris. As an amateur, Edmond represented France in the Eisenhower Trophy. He won the 1990 French Amateur Championship and the Brabazon Trophy . He turned professional later that year...

 is also a professional golfer
Professional golfer
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Despite many trips to qualifying school
Qualifying school
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, Edmond never managed to gain full playing status on the European Tour. However, he did play many seasons on the second tier Challenge Tour
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...

, and in 2000 won the Aa St Omer Open
Aa St Omer Open
The Saint-Omer Open is an annual men's professional golf tournament which played at Saint-Omer Golf Club in Saint-Omer, France. The tournament was founded in 1997 and was part of the MasterCard Tour a year later, before taking its place on the Challenge Tour for the 2000 season...

, three years before it became co-sanctioned by the main tour. That victory accounts for more than half of his career earnings on the two tours combined.

Edmond later moved to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 where he is the director of the golf academy at Les Quatre Domaines in Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is an off-island suburb north-west of Montreal.Mirabel is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Mirabel. Its geographical code is 74.Mirabel's population was...

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Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. DateTournamentWinning ScoreMargin of VictoryRunner-up
1 11 Jun 2000
2000 Challenge Tour
The 2000 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour...

Aa Open de Saint-Omer -18 (74–64–72–64=274) 1 stroke   Franck Aumonier

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