Ten Australasians play Amundi Evian Championship
2021 winner, Minjee Lee. Can she make it back-to-back major championship wins? – image Ladies European Tour
The LPGA Tour has five majors on its annual schedule, and this week, it is the fourth of those, the Amundi Evian Masters, that takes centre stage at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-les-Bains, France.
Nine Australians and one New Zealander get their chance at the US$8 million purse, although the event previously the most lucrative on the LPGA Tour has now slipped to 4th of the majors in terms of the prizemoney offered behind the US Women’s Open, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the AIG Women’s Open and tied with the Chevron Championship.
This week’s event is the first of three LPGA Tour events in Europe over the next three weeks, the Women’s Scottish Open in two weeks followed by the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales on July 31st.
Minjee Lee, Lydia Ko, Hannah Green, Grace Kim, Stephanie Kyriacou, Gabi Ruffels, Karis Davidson, Cassie Porter, Hira Naveed and Robyn Choi have all made the field courtesy of a range of qualifying criteria with Lydia Ko (2015) and Minjee Lee (2021) previous winners.
Ko’s form has tailed off a little in recent starts since her win at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in March while Lee’s win at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last month suggests she might do well again although her win in 2021 was the only top ten she has recorded in the event in tens starts at the Evian.
Stephanie Kyriacou finished runner-up in the event last year only one shot behind the winner, Ayake Furue of Japan.
Robyn Choi and Cassie Porter will play the event for the first time.
