31 janvier : Pure Silk Bahamas (Paradise Island, BAHAMAS), LPGA

1. Hyo Joo Kim (CDS)… 54. Karine Icher.

For the resumption of the American season, Karine Icher finds herself the only Frenchwoman on the tee. Joanna Klatten, 104th on the Money List of the LPGA circuit in 2015, has no automatic place in the field and Perrine Delacour, operated on a wrist in the fall of 2015, must wait a few weeks to resume competition. The cut just goes but it goes once again for the experienced Karine! The French number 1, 37th on the Money List in 2015, is attacking its fourteenth season here on the LPGA Tour. A good big game but a putting still to be settled… Impossible to stay in contact with the South Korean Hyo-Joo Kim. The winner of The Evian Championship 2014 takes advantage of the absence of Lydia Ko, the world number 1 in New Zealand, to sign her third victory on the LPGA Tour. Karine Icher concluded, she, 54th at +1. But nothing to worry about at the start of a 2016 season where the Majors and the Olympic Games in Rio will be his priority.

7 February : Coates Golf Championship (Ocala, FLORIDA), LPGA

1. Ha-Na Yang (CDS)… 33. Karine Icher.

Once again, Karine Icher takes over the job for the tricolor banner alone. Bad luck for Joanna Klatten, who came to compete in Monday's qualifications at Ocala but failed to tie for third place when only the first two were selected to enter the field. One and a half hours from her home near Orlando, Karine Icher is in famous land. Thanks to a very good 69 in the first round, she finished 33rd and progressed by more than twenty places compared to the initial event of the season in the Bahamas. Another South Korean, Ha-Na Yang, wins and signs her first success on the LPGA Tour.

14 February : ISPS Handa New Zealand Women's Open (Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND), LET / ALPG

1. Lydia Ko (NZL)… 5. Justine Dreher.

10. Valentine Derrey, 24. Gwladys Nocera, 37. Céline Herbin, 45. Isabelle Boineau, 50. Marion Ricordeau. Cut: Alexandra Vilatte, Alexandra Bonetti, Jade Schaeffer, Inès Lescudier.

The inaugural stage of the 2016 European Tour takes place in Christchurch, New Zealand. Justine Dreher signs her first major professional performance there. The young player from Saint-Donat (23 and a half), turned pro at the end of 2015, had already signed some very good weekends on the ALPG Tour, the Australian circuit: 2nd in the North Shore Ladies Pro Am on January 25 in Sydney, then 5th in the Oates Victorian Open on February 7 in Melbourne. Second at the end of the first three rounds of this LET and ALPG Tour co-sanctioned tournament, the Frenchwoman plays this February 14 in the final part with the phenomenon Lydia Ko, world leader at 18 and heroine of her adopted country, she whose family is originally from Korea. Just before the two young girls attack their game, a magnitude 5,9 earthquake hits the Clearwater Golf Club area of ​​Christchurch. About fifty aftershocks, without consequences, will follow in the following hours. Justine Dreher, finally 5th while Lydia Ko signs the third victory of her career, at home at the New Zealand Open, will therefore remember her first top 5 on the LET for a long time!

21 February : ISPS HANDA Australian Women's Open (Adelaide, AUSTRALIA), LPGA / LET

1. Haru Nomura (JAP)… 47. Karine Icher.

71. Marion Ricordeau. Cut: Gwladys Nocera, Joanna Klatten, Valentine Derrey, Celine Herbin, Justine Dreher.

Very serious things attack on February 21 at the Australian Open, co-sanctioned tournament LPGA and LET. For the occasion, the best in the world are there. As well as the very best French women: Karine Icher and Joanna Klatten, regulars on the American circuit, but also Gwladys Nocera, Céline Herbin, Marion Ricordeau and Valentine Derrey, all four familiar with the European circuit. Justine Dreher completes the group, his 5th place at the New Zealand Open having guaranteed him a last minute qualification. It is the Japanese Haru Nomura (1st) who knocks out the “clients” that are Lydia Ko (2nd) and the Australian Karrie Webb (3rd) thanks to a card of 65 on Sunday. For their part, the only two French survivors of the cut, Karine Icher and Marion Ricordeau, with the same card of 76 during the final round, finished 47th and 71st. For Marion, who was competing in her first LPGA tournament as a member (she has a partial card obtained in December 2015), it is already a first satisfaction to have crossed the cut.

28 February : Honda LPGA Thailand (Pattaya, THAILAND), LPGA

1. Lexi Thompson (EU)… 24. Karine Icher

After the Australian Open, which brought the two female circuits, LPGA and LET together, the players of the American circuit find their very exclusive circle in Thailand, a stage which has the LPGA label. This is an opportunity for star Lexi Thompson to sign the first US victory of the season, after the Korean's grip on early 2016. The athletic Lexi does not detail and relegates the second, In-Gee Chun , six shots! In a very high-flying tournament (1,6 million dollars in prize money, the ten best in the world except Lydia Ko), Karine Icher, again the only French woman in the running, finished well 24th with a putting progressing on two of the four rounds: 26 putts on Thursday, 29 on Sunday. It remains to find a putting fire four days out of four but it comes.

February 28 : RACV Ladies Masters (Brisbane, AUSTRALIA), LET / ALPG

1. Jiyai Shin (CDS)… 12. Celine Herbin.

27. Isabelle Boineau and Marion Ricordeau, 45. Gwladys Nocera, 51. Valentine Derrey and Justine Dreher, 57. Alexandra Vilatte, 59. Jade Schaeffer. Cut: Joanna Klatten, Alexandra Bonetti.

Ten French women, not one less, are in Brisbane for the continuation of the LET. And revoilou Céline Herbin! The Norman biochemist trained in Spain by the brother of the late Severiano Ballesteros finished 12th. Not as masterful as his brilliant victory at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France at the end of September 2015 in Chantaco. Not as satisfying as his sixth place after three laps left him hoping for on the beautifully windy Australian Gold Coast course. But a great performance which launches its season, which will be able to play on the European circuit and, intermittently, on the LPGA Tour. Céline Herbin, like Marion Ricordeau, indeed obtained a partial right of play in the United States for the year 2016 during the cards of last December. Behind Céline 12th, Marion finished 27th tied (with Isabelle Boineau in particular). Note that Ricordeau la Picarde was co-leader of the first round with a 67, before suffering a 77 in the second round. Greatness and small misery of golf…

LPGA: Ladies Pro Golf Association (American circuit)
LET: Ladies European Tour
ALPG: Australian Ladies Pro Golf Tour (Australia / New Zealand circuit)
LPGA / LET or LET / ALPG: Co-sanctioned tournaments