The Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth major of the season, is the perfect tournament to group the ‘major champions.’ There is no better grouping, especially when the previous three major champions are different.
It is natural that Chevron Championship winner Nelly Korda of the U.S., U.S. Women’s Open winner Yuka Saso of Japan, and KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner Yang Hee-young will be in the same group on the first day of the competition at Evian Golf Resort (par 71) in Evian-les-Bains, France, starting on the 11th (2:36 p.m. local time). The three players will start at Hole 10 at 7:36 a.m. on the 11th (2:36 p.m. Korean time).
Among South Korean players, world No. 3 Ko Jin-young hits her first shot at the first hole with Ally Ewing (USA) and Miyu Yamashita (Japan) at 12:48 p.m. on the first day (7:48 p.m. Korean time). Ko Jin-young has not won this year, but she has been on the rise, recording “tied for 12th place, tied for 2nd place and tied for 8th place” in the last three competitions.
World No. 13 Kim Hyo-joo will face LPGA strongmen Megan Kang of the U.S. and Ayaka Furue of Japan at 8 a.m. (3 p.m.).
Among the 18 Korean athletes participating in the Paris Olympics, the groupings of the rest of the Korean female golfers except for the Olympic Trio do not deserve much attention. This could be a reflection of the status of Korean women’s golf, which has only won one championship this year.
Lee So-mi, ranking ninth in the rookie rankings, will make her first start on the first day. She will start at the 10th hole at 7 a.m. (2 p.m. Korean time) with long hitters Ane Van Dam of the Netherlands and Stephanie Kiriako of Australia.
Lee Ye-won, the strongest player on the KLPGA tour, and Sung Yu-jin, the fifth-ranked rookie on the LPGA, will be the last group to try to win the title. They are not in the same group. At 2 p.m. (9 p.m. Korean time), Lee Ye-won plays her first shot at the 10th hole and Sung Yu-jin plays at the 1st hole. Hwang Yu-min and Park Ji-young play at 7:24 a.m. (2:24 p.m. Korean time) and 8:24 p.m. (3:24 p.m. Korean time), respectively.
Korean golf fans have high expectations that a Korean player will win the championship. This is because the course is advantageous for Korean players who can perform accurate shots due to narrow fairways and long rough roads.
The KLPGA Trio has a fairly high green accuracy rate on the Korean stage as well. Park Ji-young ranks fifth (77.32 percent), Lee Ye-won eighth (76.44 percent), and Hwang Yoo-min 26th (73.82 percent). Among the players on the LPGA Tour, Yoo Hae-jin, who ranks first (74.2 percent), and Choi Hye-jin, who ranks 10th (71.6 percent), and 15th (70.8 percent), are expected to play well.
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