8 may: Lalla Meryem Cup (Rabat, Morocco), LET

1. Nuria Iturrios (ESP)… 5. Isabelle Boineau 16. Mathilda Cappeliez and Lucie André; 36. Sophie Giquel-Bettan and Justine Dreher; 41. Gwladys Nocera and Caroline Afonso; 55. Valentine Derrey and Ariane Provot. Cut: Alexandra Bonetti, Alexandra Vilatte, Jade Schaeffer, Agathe Sauzon, Anaëlle Carnet, Anne-Lise Caudal, Cassandra Kirkland.

No less than sixteen Frenchwomen are in Rabat in early May for the Lalla Meryem Cup. Note that on the same site of the Royal Golf Dar es Salaam, but on a different course, the men will compete that week for the Hassan II Trophy., Stage of the European Tour. Isabelle Boineau is 5th and best Frenchwoman thanks to two very good first days (70, 70) then to an ability to limit damage (73, 74) during the last two laps complicated by the wind and then by torrential rain. The Marseillaise thus equaled her best mark on the LET, she who had been 5th in the Lacoste Ladies Open de France in Chantaco in 2014. In a tournament marked by the clear victory of the young Spaniard Nuria Iturrios (six strokes ahead of the English Florentyna Parker thanks to a 65 on Sunday despite the pouring rain), nine Habs managed to pass the cut. Special mention to the young amateur player Mathilda Cappeliez, 16th just a few days of her eighteenth birthday. And a major hat trick to Cassandra Kirkland, who came to reconnect temporarily with the circuit a year after being pushed out of the fairways to treat lung cancer. The Parisienne did not pass the cut but what a lesson coming from a young girl under heavy treatment for months and whose beating struggle continues this summer ...

8 may: Yokohama Tire Classic (Prattville, Alabama), LPGA

1. Ariya Jutanugarn (THA)… 45. Perrine Delacour 63. Joanna Klatten. Cut: Céline Herbin, Marion Ricordeau and Karine Icher.

This is Perrine Delacour's comeback. The twenty-two-year-old Frenchwoman, excluded from the fairways for two quarters after a wrist operation in September 2015, had not passed the cut during her first three recovery tournaments on the LPGA Tour. The fourth was the good one. In Prattville, Alabama, Perrine finished 45th, the best performance of the five Bleues entered. Three solid cards of 70, 70 and 71 for Miss Delacour. With just a drop on Saturday: a card of 76. Without that, and without the cursed hole n ° 17 (the same double bogey in the third and fourth rounds!), The Picardy returned squarely with honors. Joanna Klatten passes the cut too but finishes 63rd. Céline Herbin, Marion Ricordeau and Karine Icher are stopped before the weekend. For Icher (two cards of 74), this is the first cut missed this season on the LPGA Tour after a series of ten tournaments played at 100%. Note that the Thai Ariya Jutanugarn, whose main feat of arms was a victory at the Lalla Meryem Cup, in 2013 on the LET, marks her first success on the LPGA Tour.

15 may: Buick Championship (Shanghai, China), LET

1. Shanshan Feng (CHN)… 17. Valentine Derrey 27. Isabelle Boineau; 33. Alexandra Vilatte and Gwladys Nocera; 55. Anne-Lise Caudal. Cut: Jade Schaeffer, Justine Dreher, Lucie André.

Already 10th in the inaugural LET 2016 event, on February 14 at the New Zealand Open, Valentine Derrey signs a second significant performance by being 17th in mid-May in Shanghai. A very good card of 69 in the third round allows him this second top 20 of the year. The tournament was marked by the victory of defending champion Shanshan Feng. The latter had indeed already imposed in this Buick Championship last year in Shanghai. before finishing 3rd in The Evian Championship (just behind the famous head-to-head between Lydia Ko and Lexi Thompson) and winning the 2015 European Order of Merit, becoming the first Chinese to achieve this feat. Behind Valentine, Isabelle Boineau finished 27th in Shanghai. Which, on this date, allows the Marseillaise to appear 18th in the Order of Merit (best Frenchwoman), which had made a leap in the rankings thanks to its 5th place the previous week in Morocco. Note that Justine Dreher, a last minute guest thanks to the impact of her 5th place at the start of the season at the New Zealand Open, did not pass the cut. It must be said that the trip to China was complex for the very young neo-pro who had had, the previous week in Morocco, to solve an inextricable visa problem… while trying to stay focused on her game for the Lalla Meryem Cup!

22 may: Kingsmill Championship (Williamsburg, Virginia), LPGA

1. Ariya Jutanugarn (THA)… 46. Perrine Delacour 69 Joanna Klatten. Cut: Céline Herbin and Marion Ricordeau.

The LPGA Tour went from Alabama to Virginia but fourteen days apart, the final of the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg looks like a copy and paste of the final of the Yokohama Tire Classic in Prattville… New sensation with the second consecutive victory of the Thai Ariya Jutanugarn. And new cut past for Perrine Delacour and Joanna Klatten but without their places differing much from those of Prattville. Perrine is 46th and Joanna 69th. Nothing comparable to the 2015 edition of the Kingsmill where Perrine finished 4th and where Joanna (finally 42nd) scored the first round by taking the lead of the tournament thanks to a card of 65. For both players, the same conclusion: no enough success in putting, a game sector to work to aim higher at the edge of summer. Karine Icher absent, the two other French women present, Céline Herbin and Marion Ricordeau, did not pass the cut.

25 may: US Open Qualifications (Buckinghamshire, England), LPGA / LET

1. Jade Schaeffer; 2. Valentine Derrey, Camilla Lennarth (SUE) and Olivia Cowan (ALL); 5. Pamela Pretswell (ECO). All five qualified. 8. Alexandra Vilatte; 18. Alexandra Bonetti, Justine Dreher and Ariane Provot; 27. Marion Duvernay, 33. Isabelle Lescudier; 59. Laure Sibille.

Dazzling success for two French women during the qualification for the US Open 2016 which was held on May 25 at Buckinghamshire Golf Club, stronghold of the Ladies European Tour. Respectively 1st and 2nd at the end of the two rounds contested during the day, Jade Schaeffer and Valentine Derrey seize two of the five tickets that were at stake. The Swedish Lennarth, the young German Cowan and the Scottish Pretswell are the three others qualified. Twenty-five sites (twenty-one in the United States, one in England, one in Korea, one in China and one in Japan) hosted these qualifications between May and June 3. With the objective of a US Open which will take place from July 7 to 10 at the CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin (near San Francisco). Jade Schaeffer played 67 and 72 to sign the only -5 of the day while Valentine Derrey (73 and 67) finished 2nd tied at -4 with Lennarth and Cowan. Twice winner on the LET (German Open in 2009, Prague Masters in 2011), Jade Schaeffer had again shown an intact talent by finishing 4th in the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters at the end of 2015. We are therefore not surprised to find her thus at the party. Notable fact: the 2016 US Open at CordeValle will be nothing less than its first tournament on American soil! For her part, Valentine Derrey, who has already played on the Symetra Tour and the LPGA Tour after her studies in the United States, also has serious European references, with in particular a victory over LET, in 2014 at the Turkish Open .

29 may: Volvik Championship (Ann Arbor, Michigan), LPGA

1. Ariya Jutanugarn (THA)… 43. Celine Herbin 65. Karine Icher. 74. Marion Ricordeau. abandonment: Perrine Delacour.

Three tournaments on the LPGA in May. And three victories for the Thai Ariya Jutanugarn! The 20-year-old becomes the first golfer in the history of the LPGA to sign such a streak without having ever won tournaments before. In one month, by winning $ 195 three times in a row, Jutanugarn propelled himself to second place on the Money List of the American women's circuit ($ 000 against $ 882 in Lydia Ko, always first). Four French women were in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for this event tournament. For Perrine Delacour, the adventure ended prematurely with a big back problem that forced her to retire on the first lap. Céline Herbin, 820rd, signs the best performance of the Blue, Karine Icher being 1th and Marion Ricordeau 102th. Céline Herbin thus continues its progression on the LPGA Tour. In six tournaments contested on this circuit, the winner of the Lacoste Ladies Open of France 829 has not passed four cuts (Australian Open, Shootout Classic, Yokohama Tire Classic, Kingsmill Championship) but she now has two performances (43th Lotte Championship in Hawaii and 65rd in this Volvik Championship in Michigan). To be continued !

All rankings as of May 31

ROLEX RANKING (world ranking): 1. Lydia Ko (NZL); 2. Inbee Park (CDS); 3. Lexi Thompson (EU)… 58. Karine Icher; 116. Gwladys Nocera; 175. Joanna Klatten; 197. Céline Herbin; 212. Perrine Delacour; 267. Isabelle Boineau; 281. Marion Ricordeau; 300. Anne-Lise Caudal…

LPGA OFFICIAL MONEY LIST (American circuit, winnings): 1. Lydia Ko (NZL), $ 1; 102. Ariya Jutanugarn (THA), 829; 2. Haru Nomura (JAP) 882 820;… 3. Karine Icher, 696 324; 38. Joanna Klatten, 136; 266. Marion Ricordeau, 64; 73. Céline Herbin, 541 117.

LET RANKING (European Order of Merit): 1. Beth Allen (EU), € 83; 176. Shanshan Feng (CHN) 2 72; 324. Nuria Iturrios (ESP) 3 69… 926. Isabelle Boineau, 18 24; 659. Valentine Derrey, 26; 16. Gwladys Nocera, 598; 27. Céline Herbin, 16; 078. Justine Dreher, 34; 15. ​​Lucie André, 050 37; 14. Marion Ricordeau, 055; 46. Anne-Lise Caudal, 10; 026. Karine Icher, 61; 6. Caroline Afonso, 498; 77. Ariane Provot, 4571.

The June meetings

LPGA. June 5: Shoprite LPGA Classic, Galloway, NJ. June 12: KPMG Women's PGA Championship (MAJEUR), Sammamish, WA. June 19: Meijer LPGA Classic, Grand Rapids, MI. June 26: Walmart NW Arkansas, Rogers.

LET. May 31-June 1: Qualifications of the Evian Championship, Evian. June 19: Tipsport Golf Masters, Pilsen, Czech Republic.