France is the center of women’s golf this week as it hosts the Evian Championship, and even more eyeballs will turn to the nation in two weeks when the Ryder Cup comes calling for the first time ever. But according to Franck Riboud, president of the Evian tournament, the increased interest won’t change how the […]
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A rare bye week on the PGA Tour can be spent in a variety of ways. Some players go home to rest and spend time with family; others like Bryson DeChambeau head into the mountains to study their oxygen usage rates. And if you’re Phil Mickelson, you go from the driving range to the gun […]
Spain’s Carlota Ciganda is looking to keep Europe’s momentum going. With a 6-under-par 65, she finished with a share of the lead Thursday with Maria Torres at the Evian Championship. The Europeans are in a resurgence on the game’s biggest stages, with Ciganda looking to give the Euros four major championship titles over the last […]
Brooke Henderson had some fun as part of the LPGA’s focus on its youth movement in a commercial early last year, joking that she might be in the twilight of her teenage years but “age won’t slow me down.” After turning 21 this week, she remains in the game’s fast lane. Henderson raced onto the […]
Brittany Altomare introduced herself to the world in the “craziest conditions” she has ever encountered. In heavy wind, with heavy rain turning to hale, she showed just how tough those players from Massachussets can be as she battled to try to win the Evian Championship in brutal weather last year. Yeah, she lost the sudden […]
Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist is the defending champion. England’s Georgia Hall is looking to win back-to-back major championships after claiming the Ricoh Women’s British Open last month. Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg, winner of the ANA Inspiration in April, is aiming to join Se Ri Pak and In Gee Chun as the only players to win major championships […]
Evian Championship officials should go ahead and post So Yeon Ryu’s name on their leaderboards right now. Nobody gets in contention in major championships more consistently than Ryu these days. Ryu, No. 3 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings, is looking to win the third major championship of her career, her second in the last […]
American women are looking to avoid another shutout in the majors. They’re 0-4 this year. This week’s Evian Championship is their last chance to claim a victory. In the first 51 years of the LPGA, the Americans never failed to win a major. They’re trying to avoid being shut out in five separate years since […]
Fifteen years ago, Angela Stanford gave herself a chance to win the U.S. Women’s Open. Hilary Lunke beat her and Kelly Robbins in a playoff at Pumpkin Ridge. Stanford played as if it were only a matter of time until she won a major. She went on to win five LPGA titles and became a […]
Amy Olson is the pride of Oxbow, N.D. It’s a tiny city of 305 people, according to the most recent census. “No gas station, no grocery story, nothing too glamorous,” Olson once said of what it was like growing up there. “I’m a country girl. I don’t like big cities.” This self-described small-town girl, however, […]