FootGolf French Open tightens as round 2 leaderboard shifts deepen

Ben Clarke moved into the round-two lead at the FootGolf French Open at 20 under, with Swiss player Vincent Huber sitting second as the field tightened heading into the final stretch. A FootGolf France video update made the pressure plain: Public Round 2 was over, and the race had sharpened enough to make every remaining hole matter.

The tournament ran from Thursday 6 August through Sunday 9 August 2026, and its setup helped create the squeeze. Official event listings placed the Open de France de FootGolf across two golf courses in Europe, with references to Fairplay Golf Course and Golf Int de Soufflenheim Baden-Baden. The program also set round two for 8:00 a.m. on the Bernhard Langer Course, a detail that mattered because players were already being asked to manage a multi-course test before the weekend settled the title.

The leaderboard was not just about Clarke and Huber. Another official snapshot of the individual competition listed Florian Warsemann, Gonzalo Novosad, Jan Kozak, Ben Clarke and Sandro among the names near the top, which is exactly the kind of clustering that keeps a FootGolf major volatile. When the front of the board is crowded with international contenders, one hot round can reorder everything. When the gaps are this thin, one miss does the same thing.

The same day as the round-two update, the event also pushed out a separate clip highlighting a finish moment from the 2026 competition, another sign that the closing holes had already produced late-round stress and shot-making. The Federation for International FootGolf had framed the event as a gathering of the best players from across Europe and beyond, and the second-round board backed that up by showing a field still packed tightly enough to leave the title undecided.

AFFG also hosted an official French Open 2026 leaderboard page, underscoring how closely the organization tracked the shifting order across the weekend. The French Open sat within a broader 2026 domestic season that also included Open de Lyon, Open de Savenay, Open de Soufflenheim and Open d’Albon, but this was the stop where the leaderboard squeeze turned the final rounds into a true test of nerve.