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YOU suspect that among the ardent golf types coming over to support Europe there would be many who voted for Brexit. It is not a subject the European players are keen on, with Paul Casey saying, ‘I haven’t even thought about it’. Given that the majority of the team reside in the US that is perhaps unsurprising. THE enormous hospitality areas behind the 17th tee and in the middle of the course are the first three-storey temporary buildings ever erected at a French sports venue. So ambitious was their construction deemed to be that it took 18 months to get the scheme agreed by planning bureaucrats.