Evian Championship: Nelly Korda, Charley Hull, British hopes and methods to watch girls’s main stay on Sky Sports activities

The ladies’s main season continues this week with the Evian Championship, with Jeeno Thitikul having one other alternative to finish Nelly Korda’s reign on the prime of the world rankings. We check out among the potential storylines to observe this week in France…

Can Korda finish America’s mini main drought?

9 of the final 10 main winners within the males’s sport have been American, with Rory McIlroy’s Grand Slam success at The Masters the one exception, though the identical stage of success has not been matched within the girls’s majors.

Korda’s Chevron Championship win final April is the newest American girls’s main champion, with the final seven majors producing completely different winners from outdoors of the USA – Minjee Lee, Maja Stark, Mao Saigo, Lydia Ko, Ayaka Furue, Amy Yang and Yuka Saso.

Korda stays prime of the world rankings and among the many favourites to finish that drought this week, however stays winless in 2025 with Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho and Yealimi Noh the one People to have an LPGA Tour victory this season.

The 2-time main winner has not completed outdoors the highest 30 in any occasion over the previous 12 months however arrives along with her world No 1 standing below menace as soon as once more, with Jeeno Thitikul closing after her robust displaying on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship final month.

Will Hull push for maiden main title?

Charley Hull has been among the many pre-tournament favourites heading into nearly each main in current seasons, with the Englishwoman seeking to construct on tied-Twelfth finishes on the US Ladies’s Open and the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.

She was a two-time main runner-up in 2023 and has been largely constant within the huge occasions, posting top-25s in seven of the final 9 majors, whereas Hull additionally has beforehand completed tied-third at this occasion.

Hull comes into the occasion having completed fourth on the KPMG Ladies’s Irish Open final week, as novice Lottie Woad claimed her breakthrough Women European Tour win, with loads of encouraging indicators in her sport heading into the summer time.

Her final two appearances on the Evian Championship have led to missed cuts, however Hull will likely be hopeful of difficult for an elusive maiden main and turning into the primary English feminine main champion since Georgia Corridor in 2018.

Which different Brits are concerned?

Woad was given a sponsor’s exemption into this week’s occasion earlier than her dominant six-shot win in Eire on Sunday, with the 21-year-old now closing in on securing LPGA Tour membership.

A top-25 end would safe her the 2 factors wanted to succeed in 20 required to safe her LPGA Tour membership by way of the LPGA Elite Novice Pathway (LEAP), a system that provides amateurs factors primarily based on achievements made in a wide range of occasions.

Bronte Legislation, Alice Hewson, Cara Gainer and Mimi Rhodes – a three-time winner on the Women European Tour this season – are the opposite English gamers scheduled to function.

Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh and Eire’s Leona Maguire are additionally within the subject, with Wales’ Darcey Harry that includes after her maiden Women European Tour title on the Hulencourt Ladies’s Open final month.

Who has impressed right here earlier than and who might this time round?

The Evian Championship launched in 1994 on the Women European Tour and have become co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour in 2000, though solely grew to become elevated to main championship standing in 2013.

Solheim Cup captain Anna Nordqvist gained the 2017 contest in a play-off and France’s Celine Boutier cruised to a house main victory by six photographs in 2023, whereas this 12 months’s occasion marks the tenth anniversary of Ko turning into the youngest main winner in historical past when aged simply 18.

Furue returns as defending champion after final 12 months’s dramatic victory, the place she adopted three consecutive birdies from the 14th with a final-hole eagle to complete one forward of Australia’s Stephanie Kyriacou.

2021 winner Lee is chasing successive main titles, having gained the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship final month, whereas Ruoning Yin has prime 4 finishes in two of the primary three majors of the season.

When is the Evian Championship stay on Sky Sports activities?

Sky Sports activities will present prolonged stay protection from the fourth girls’s main of the 12 months, with six hours of stay motion for every spherical plus each day highlights.

Dwell protection begins at 11am over the primary two rounds and 9am over the weekend, with one-hour highlights then proven at 8.30pm on Thursday and Friday and 8pm for the ultimate two days.

• Thursday – 1100-1700 – stay on Sky Sports activities Combine and Sky Sports activities+
• Friday – 1100-1700 – stay on Sky Sports activities Combine and Sky Sports activities+
• Saturday – 0900-1500 – stay on Sky Sports activities Golf and Sky Sports activities Combine
• Sunday – 0900-1500 – stay on Sky Sports activities Golf and Sky Sports activities Combine

What different golf is stay on Sky Sports activities this week?

There are two occasions on the DP World Tour and PGA Tour this week, with the Genesis Scottish Open and ISCO Championship co-sanctioned by each excursions and each stay on Sky Sports activities.

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy headline a robust subject in Scotland, the place there are additionally three last-minute qualification spots up for grabs to function in The Open subsequent week at Royal Portrush.

Dwell protection from Scotland begins on Thursday with Featured Teams from 8.30am on Sky Sports activities Golf forward of full protection from 1pm. The Isco Championship is then stay from 9.30pm that night. Not received Sky? Stream the PGA Tour and extra with no contract.

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