Sung Hyun Park - photo credit Alexis Orloff

In the aftermath of a frustrating and quickly canceled Thursday day due to the heavy precipitation recorded on the course of the Evian Championship, the players engaged in this 5^rd Major of the women's season took advantage of ideal weather conditions despite a temperature still cool this morning.

As is often the case in major ladies' meetings, tonight is a Korean who occupies the first place of the leaderboard: sparkling from start to finish, Sung Hyun Kim, author of a 63 card. today (-8), already has 3 strokes ahead of her runners-up, the Thai Moriya Jutanugarn and the Australian Katherine Kirk (-5). Behind, the Americans Angela Stanford and Jessica Korda and the Korean In-Kyung Kim are relegated to four shots (-4) from the head. Among the favorites, signed card, Lydia Ko, winner here in 2015, is positioned at 8^rd tied (-3), Shanshan Feng, Austin Ernst and Suzann Pettersen in 15^rd tied position (-2), Lexi Thompson and Melissa Reid (-1) at 26^rd tied rank.

If no Frenchwoman appears at the top of the leaderboard, Joanna Klatten is in ambush after a very solid day where she scores - 2 to six shots from the head in the top 15. Karin Icher, a little less successful, remains all the same on contact with a +1 card today. She is tonight 52^rd ex aequo. Inevitably, their experience on the American circuit and very strong player fields was very precious today. We look forward to tomorrow and a day that promises to be promising for those leading the tricolor camp this evening.

Grimace soup, on the other hand, for the four other French women involved in Evian this year. The Symetra Tour player (2^rd US division) Marion Ricordeau (+3) is behind and will have to fight hard on Saturday. The hope is however thin to see Agathe Laisné and Perrin Delacour both at (+5) and Isabelle Boineau (+6).