The perfect feminine golfers on the worldwide scene this morning kicked off the fourth Main of the season. Actually, there shall be area for The Evian Championship (prize cash of 6.5 million {dollars}), an occasion born in 1994 and arranged in collaboration between the LPGA Tour and the Girls European Tour.
On the finish of the primary spherical we discover a trio within the lead, main with a rating of -7 (64 hits). They’re the Scottish Gemma Dryburgh, the Thai Patty Tavatanakit and the Swedish Ingrid Lindblad. For the main trio, a margin of 1 size over the South Koreans Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi, the New Zealander Lydia Ko, the Mexican Gaby Lopez, the Japanese Ayaka Furue and the American Lauren Coughlin.
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Rating clearly very quick after the primary day with over 50 golfers able to ending with scores under par.
Scottish, outcomes
On the par 71 course of the Evian Resort Golf Membership in Evian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie, France), the Australian Stephanie Kyriacou, the Japanese Rio Takeda and the South Korean Haeren shut the highest ten in tenth place with a rating of -5 Ryu, the Swedish Madelene Sagstrom and the Dutch Anne van Dam.
-4 and debut for the Danish Emily Kristine Pedersen, the Thai Pajaree Anannarukarn and the American Angela Stanford. First of the hosts the French Celine Boutier (picture), twenty-first with -2 within the firm of, amongst others, the Canadian Brooke M.
Henderson, the American Nelly Korda and the South Korean Jin Younger Ko. Lastly, the primary spherical of the Englishman Charley Hull needs to be forgotten, third from final with +8 and virtually already eradicated in view of the lower on Friday.
In 1994, the Evian Masters was created by Antoine Riboud, boss of BSN (now Danone) which owns the Évian model. Initially, he organized a males’s pro-am event in 1992 however he was disillusioned by the shortage of curiosity from golfers.
The next 12 months, a girls’s pro-am was organized with the presence of European or French gamers akin to Laura Davies, Marie-Laure De Lorenzi and Sandrine Mendiburu2. That is how in 1994, he determined to prepare a girls’s event which was built-in into the Girls European Tour (European girls’s circuit).
Her record of prizes was inaugurated by the Swede Helen Alfredsson who received on two different events (1998 and 2008). To draw the most effective golfers on the planet, they’re accommodated in prestigious lodges (L’Ermitage or Le Royal) and really shortly they go to the event.
After a double from the Englishwoman Laura Davies (1995-1996), it was the Japanese Hiromi Kobayashi who received. The top of the Nineties was marked by Swedish victories: Alfredsson in 1998, Catrin Nilsmark in 1999 and Annika Sörenstam in 2000.
In 2000, the event was formally built-in into the LPGA Tour (North American girls’s circuit and probably the most prestigious circuit on the planet) and shortly obtained the honorary title of “fifth main” on account of its endowment.
The victories of the Australian Rachel Hetherington in 2001, the Swede Sörenstam in 2002 and the American Juli Inkster in 2003 show the internationalization of the event, the place the most effective golfers go. In 2004, the younger Michelle Wie took half on the age of fourteen nevertheless it was the Australian Wendy Doolan (35 years previous) who received.
Then it was the glamorous victories of the People Paula Creamer in 2005 or Natalie Gulbis in 2007, interspersed with the coronation in 2006 of Karrie Webb and Alfresson in 2008 – with a 3rd title, she turned probably the most profitable participant of the tournament3 – which set the tempo event.
