Kick-off, Thursday September 15, of the Evian Championship, 5e and last Women's Golf Major. Led by the young world N ° 1 Lydia Ko, a dream line-up made up of the 120 greatest players in the world lines up at the Evian Resort Golf Club until next Sunday.

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The final field of the 120 players of the Evian Championship 2016 is final at the end of the ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters in Germany (LET), the last tournament taken into account for the selection and won by the Korean In-Kyung Kim.

The best players in the world will therefore be gathered at the Evian Resort Golf Club, from September 15 to 18, to compete in the last Major which closes the season and which promises, on the return from the Olympic Games, 4 days of particularly intense competition. With the exception of the recent Inbee Park package, the Olympic champion whose recurrent thumb injury intensified after Rio, theth Top 10 worldwide is complete. World No. 1 Lydia Ko, who signed his first Major victory to Evian, puts his title at stake against an increasingly young hierarchy. The Top 4, made up of Lydia Ko (19), from Thailand Ariya Jutanugarn (20 years old) and Canadian Brooke Henderson (19), all three Major winners this year, as well as the American Lexi Thompson (21 years old), indeed displays an average age of less than 20 years.

A real dynamic which echoes the policy of the tournament management: to reveal and support the emergence of the great talents of today and especially of tomorrow. “Through the Evian Championship, we have the opportunity to dare and constantly imagine the golf of tomorrow. The first Grand Slam victory, during the Evian Championship 2015, of Lydia Ko who, at just 18, became the youngest player in history to win a Major is the expression even of all that excites us and we motivates to make this tournament unique. Put the Evian Championship platform at the service of the development of young talents and bring to life this link that exists between the elite of women's golf worldwide and new generation of champions remains our greatest ambition " recalls Franck Riboud, President of Danone and the Evian Championship.

The rise of Qualifications, with Europe and two new stages in the United States and Korea, which offer 5 places for the Major, goes in this direction. Just like the awarding of three wild cards to the international amateur elite: the Englishwoman Bronte Law (21 years old), World No. 2 amateur, best American university amateur, crowned by the Annika Award presented by 3M, the American Hannah O'Sullivan (18 years old), N ° 3 worldwide, and the Swiss Alban Valenzuela (18 years old), N ° 9 and brilliant 21e during the Rio Olympic Games. But the palm of youth returns this year to Julia engstrom, 15, youngest winner in the history of the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship.

During the Evian Championship, 5th and last Grand Slam 2016 tournament, the stakes are double for the winners of the previous 4 majors, Lydia Ko, Brooke Henderson, Brittany Lang and Ariya Jutanugarn: to win a second major title this season and win the Rolex Annika Major Award, which crowns the best performance in Majors.

4 French women enter the field of the Evian Championship 2016 : Karine Icher, French N ° 1, Isabelle Boineau, Céline Herbin and Joanna Klatten.

To consult the complete table of selected players: click here

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