The ladies’s main season continues this week on the Amundi Evian Championship, with prolonged protection from Evian Resort Golf Membership in France dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Nelly Korda arrives as pre-tournament favorite after profitable 4 instances on the LPGA Tour this season, together with The Chevron Championship in April and final month’s US Girls’s Open.
Grace Kim returns as defending champion after final 12 months’s dramatic play-off victory over Jeeno Thitikul, with Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson and Solheim Cup captain Anna Nordqvist among the many different previous winners of the occasion.
Charley Hull and Lottie Woad are among the many English gamers chasing victory, with this week’s occasion additionally the penultimate main to earn qualification factors within the race to characteristic in September’s Solheim Cup.
Here is all you must know forward of the fourth girls’s main of the season, together with TV instances, ones to look at and key storylines to comply with this week…
When is the Evian Championship dwell on Sky Sports activities?
Sky Sports activities has six hours of dwell protection from all 4 rounds of the Evian Championship, with motion dwell from 11am on Thursday and Friday on Sky Sports activities+.
Protection begins on Saturday and Sunday from 9am on Sky Sports activities Golf, operating by till after the ultimate putt is holed on each days. The Genesis Scottish Open and ISCO Championship are additionally dwell all through the week.
Evian Championship TV instances
- Spherical one, Thursday, July 9 – 1100-1700 – Dwell on Sky Sports activities+
- Spherical two, Friday, July 10 – 1100-1700 – Dwell on Sky Sports activities+
- Spherical three, Saturday, July 11 – 0900-1500 – Dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf
- Spherical 4, Sunday, July 12 – 0900-1430 – Dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf
Can Korda full the profession Grand Slam?
Whereas there are 5 main championships within the girls’s sport, gamers who’ve gained 4 majors are recognised as having accomplished a profession Grand Slam as a result of how the tournaments holding main standing have modified over totally different eras.
Korda’s US Girls’s Open win final month was her third totally different main title, following on from the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship (2021) and the Chevron Championship (2024, 2026), that means she now has two probabilities to finish the profession Grand Slam this month.
Her earlier finest end on the Evian Championship is a share of eighth in 2022, whereas she will additionally shut out Grand Slam glory on the AIG Girls’s Open – her solely different lacking main – later this month.
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Korda closed out a one-shot win on the US Girls’s Open, her second successive main title
Who can cease Korda?
World No 2 Thitikul comes into this week’s occasion with two wins on the LPGA Tour this season, the Honda LPGA Thailand and the Mizuho Americas Open, however the Thai participant remains to be chasing a maiden main victory.
Hull has additionally been in nice kind this 12 months, ending tied-second at this 12 months’s US Girls’s Open, with the world No 4 trying to bounce again from a missed reduce on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship and turn into the primary Englishwoman to win a significant since 2018.
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Georgia Corridor has backed Hull to win a significant championship forward of the Evian Championship
Woad claimed her second LPGA Tour title on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship earlier this 12 months then suffered a play-off loss to Miyu Yamashita on the Meijer LPGA Basic, with the 22-year-old trying to construct on her tied-third end – whereas nonetheless an novice finally 12 months’s occasion.
Hyo Joo Kim has previous expertise of profitable this occasion, claiming her lone main title on the 2014 Evian Championship. whereas Yamashita and Hae Ran Ryu – each main winners over the previous 12 months – shall be among the many others eyeing victory.
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Woad missed out on profitable her second LPGA Tour title of the season on the Meijer LPGA Basic for Merely Give
How lengthy has it been a significant and who has gained earlier than?
The primary Amundi Evian Championship was held in 1994, and it was recognised as a significant in 2013.
It was the primary event in continental Europe to be elevated to girls’s main standing, with Suzann Pettersen being topped the primary main champion at Evian Resort Golf Membership in 2013.
Suzann Pettersen was the primary participant to win the Evian Championship after it was elevated to a significant in 2013
Former Solheim Cup captain Annika Sörenstam first gained in 2000, the primary 12 months it was co-sanctioned by each the LPGA Tour and Girls European Tour, whereas Sky Sports activities’ Dame Laura Davies claimed back-to-back victories – earlier than it was a significant, in 1995 and 1996.
Helen Alfredsson has essentially the most victories, profitable the inaugural event in 1994, earlier than profitable once more in 1998 and 2008.
Sky Sports activities’ Dame Laura Davies gained the Evian Championship twice in 1995 and 1996
The place is it held and what is the prize cash?
This 12 months’s event has a $9.1m (£6.81m) prize purse, and the winner will pocket a $1.365m (£1.02m) cheque.
Match organisers have elevated the full prize purse by $1.1m (£820,000) from the 2025 occasion, with Kim taking house $1.2m (£900,000) after her victory.
The Evian Resort Golf Membership boasts sensational views over Lake Geneva
The event is hosted at Evian Resort Golf Membership in Evian-les-Bains, France, a par-71 course that boasts beautiful views of Lake Geneva.
What different golf is dwell this week?
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy headline the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Membership, the place Chris Gotterup is defending champion, with protection dwell on Sky Sports activities on Thursday from 8.30am.
The highest three gamers on the ultimate leaderboard, who are usually not already certified, will qualify for The Open at Royal Birkdale the next week.
Max Homa headlines the sector on the ISCO Championship, which begins at Hurstbourne Nation Membership on Thursday and can be dwell on Sky Sports activities from 9pm.
Who will win the Evian Championship? Watch all 4 rounds dwell on Sky Sports activities. Protection begins at 11am on Thursday and Friday on Sky Sports activities+, earlier than beginning at 9am over the weekend on Sky Sports activities Golf. Get Sky Sports activities or stream golf with no contract.
