Brittany Lincicome - Photo: © Getty Images

This is the first of the 5 major tournaments of the season and one of the best endowed on the calendar ($ 2,600,000). Founded in 1972 by Dinah Shore - famous American singer and actress of the 50s - this tournament, called at the time the Kraft Nabisco Championship, reached the rank of major tournament in 1983.

Brittany Lincicome - Photo: © Getty Images

Twenty years later, our French Patricia Meunier-Lebouc will win it, becoming the second tricolor after Catherine Lacoste in 1967 (US Women Open) to win a Grand Slam tournament on the American circuit. Now known as Ana Inspiration, the tournament promises to be the first major event of the year! The reigning champion, Brittany Lincicome, who had already won it in 2009, will only have to face a field of players that has never been so high in 33 years of history.

Among the big names who appear at the start of Ana Inspiration 2016, we find the American Stacy Lewis who had to bow last year to her compatriot Lincicome. South Korean golfer Ha Na Jang, a young rookie last year, has already won 2 tournaments since the start of the season. The French Karine Icher and Gwladys Nocera are also present, as well as the world number one, Lydia Ko who recently won the ISPS Handa New Zealand Women's Open on the Ladies European Tour.

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