Celebrating its 10th year as a major championship, The Amundi Evian Championship is set to begin on Thursday and the 132-player field is star-studded, featuring all players in the top 10 of the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings as well as all 15 LPGA Tour winners this season. With a challenging venue like Evian Resort Golf Club that features undulating greens and tricky side-hill lies, this event always seems to produce plenty of drama coming down the stretch on Sunday and this year’s edition will surely be no exception. Here are a few players to keep your eye on as they battle it out in Evian-les-Bains for the fourth major championship title of the 2023 season.
Linn Grant
Though she’s only in her second year on the LPGA Tour, Linn Grant has plenty of experience with Evian Resort Golf Club. The Swede has teed it up twice in the Jabra Ladies Open, which is held annually on the Ladies European Tour at the Champions Course, winning the event earlier this season and finishing in a tie for 13th in 2022. She also played the Amundi Evian Championship as a rookie last season, firing a final-round 64 to jump from T29 to T8 and secure her best career finish in a major championship. Statistically, Grant ranks first in strokes gained driving, sixth in strokes gained tee-to-green and 11th in strokes gained total, according to KPMG Performance Insights.
Grant also comes to France fresh off a win at the Dana Open at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio. It was the 24-year-old’s first LPGA Tour victory and her ninth win since turning professional in 2021. Grant won by three shots over Allisen Corpuz after carding rounds of 64-69-62-68 for a 72-hole total of 21-under.
Georgia Hall
This week at Evian Resort Golf Club marks Georgia Hall’s sixth appearance in the Amundi Evian Championship and her past results show the proclivity she has for this major in particular. The 2018 AIG Women’s Open winner has never finished worse than T37 in this event and has recorded three top-10 results in her previous five starts in France, finishing in a tie for 10 in 2017, a tie for sixth in 2021 and a tie for eighth in 2022. Hall has shot 13 rounds in the 60s at this venue, the lowest of which is a 64 that came in the final round in 2021 and has only carded five over-par rounds on the Champions Course, an impressive feat considering the challenging side-hill lies and uneven terrain that tend to trip players up at this venue.
Hall got off to a fast start…
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