Nelly Korda - © LET

The plateau becomes clearer after the announcement of the arrival of Céline Boutier, French number 1, and Azahara Muñoz, double champion of the event in 2013 and 2014. Nelly Korda, who will celebrate her 21st birthday on July 28, s A place is already secured on the US Solheim Cup squad, which will face Team Europe in the PGA Centenary Course in Gleneagles, Scotland the week before the Lacoste Ladies Open de France.

She said: “I can't wait to play my first Lacoste Ladies Open de France, on the Medoc golf course. This flagship event of the Ladies European Tour will bring together the best European players. I can't wait to see the tournament and try to put my name on the list of champions ”.

Sweden's Caroline Hedwall won the title at Golf du Médoc Resort in 2018, but her compatriots Beth Allen and Cristie Kerr won it in 2016 and 2017 at the Chantaco golf course in St-Jean de Luz, Aquitaine.

Known since her professional debut in 2016 via Jessica Korda, her younger sister (the youngest player in history to cross the cut on the LET at the age of 13), Nelly Korda did not take long to make a name. After joining the LPGA Tour in 2017, she obtained her first success there in Taiwan at the end of 2018. Another victory at the Australian Open in February 2019…. after the success of his sister in the same tournament in 2012, and that of his father, Czech tennis player Petr Korda at the Australian Open tennis in 1998! A week after the Solheim Cup 2019 in Scotland, where she will play for the first time in her career, the American star will once again face the best European golfers, but this time to the delight of the French public, in one of the most major golf competitions from The Ryder Cup to Golf National.

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