This year's Arnold Palmer Cup, the first to take place in the format expanded to include male and female college golfers from the United States against their counterparts from around the world, will take place July 6-8 at the Evian Resort Golf Club. This year's Evian Championship will take place September 13-16 before moving to a late July date starting in 2019.

« This is an exciting opportunity for female college golfers ”said Amy Palmer Saunders, president of the Arnie Army Charitable Foundation. “The goal of the Arnold Palmer Cup has always been to create opportunities for college golfers and to ensure that our golfers, men and women, enjoy an exemption in a high level professional tournament. This year, we are delighted to welcome Rolex as our Presenting Partner and look forward to continuing the long relationship my father has had with this company for over 50 years. "

The first and only Major golf tournament in continental Europe, the Evian Championship is the fifth major in women's golf alongside the ANA Inspiration, the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, the US Women's Open and the Ricoh British Open. The first 120 players of the last 25 years have already played on the course of the Evian Resort Golf Club, completely redesigned in 2013, which has made its own history and placed itself at the highest level of world golf. In this magical setting between lake and mountain, The Evian Championship has managed to create a Major like all the others, offering the elite world golf price which continues to grow significantly, reaching $ 3 in 850. This importance allows the develop a sports policy resolutely geared towards young people around the Major. Voted “Leading European Golf Resort 2015” at the World Luxury Hotel Awards, the Evian Resort is a golf destination not to be missed. Located in a 148 hectare wooded park on the shores of Lake Geneva, at the foot of the Alps, the Evian Resort Golf Club is a spectacular golf course with a rhythm that asserts its strong French identity. Home to the Evian Championship, it and offers the legendary quality of a championship course set in beautiful natural surroundings. It is one of the oldest courses in France.

The Evian Resort Golf Club course was completely redesigned in 2013 by a team of international architects. The objective was to give a strong identity to these 18 holes positioned in the heart of an exceptional natural setting while respecting a set of values ​​relating to the protection of the environment. Today, the course is a real major course, stimulating, with a very clear and spectacular global vision. “We are delighted and honored to host such a prestigious event as the Arnold Palmer Cup in July, both for the namesake of the tournament, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, and for the luck that it offers the best American and international golfers, » Said Franck Riboud, president of The Evian Championship. « And we are very proud to have the opportunity to donate a Wild Card for the next Evian Championship to one of the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup players. This initiative echoes the tournament's policy of giving younger players the opportunity to experience a Major. We are convinced that this is part of their learning process and we are happy to help them in this way. »

The selection of the Arnold Palmer Cup representative in the Evian Championship will be determined by a vote of the Arnold Palmer Cup participants prior to the competition. Players will choose one member from each team (excluding themselves) who they believe best represents the “Arnold Palmer” legacy, that is, the values ​​Arnold Palmer exhibited during his legendary career. The best voter of the winning team will receive the invitation. The selected Arnold Palmer Cup player must remain an amateur golfer to participate in the Evian Resort Golf Club. The junior caddy of the designated Arnold Palmer Cup player will also be invited to serve as a cadet in the Evian Championship.

Previous winners of the Arnold Palmer Cup exemption include Maverick McNealy (USA, Stanford), Matthias Schwab (Austria, Vanderbilt) and Collin Morikawa (USA, California).