The Evian Championship strengthens its sports policy with the launch, after the European Qualifications, of two new international selection events in the United States and in Korea. New opportunities for golfers around the world, these events offering 5 places in the prestigious Major's plateau. The Qualifications Europe have just ended. The final ranking: ladieseuropeantour.com. Next step, the United States Qualifications which start on July 22.

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From left to right: Maria Verchenova, Franck Riboud, boss of the food group Danone and Nanna Koerstz Madsen - Photo: © LET

The European Qualifiers for the Evian Championship, which took place yesterday and today on the major course of the Evian Resort Golf Club, have delivered their verdict. After 36 bitterly contested holes by 60 players including 4 amateurs, representing 21 nations, Maria Verchenova made a triumphant return to the Evian fairways (after her last participation in the Evian Masters in 2011), winning the event with a total of 141 (-1), and two strokes ahead of his pursuer. At 30, the Russian N ° 1 grabbed one of the two places to join the prestigious Major league awarded during the European Qualifications.

If the qualification of Maria Verchenova very quickly took shape, behind, nothing was decided. Until the last holes, there were 5 of them who could claim the famous sesame. Nanna Koerstz Madsen quickly showed her intentions with an eagle at 15. The 21-year-old Danish rookie last year on the LET and 2nd in the 2016 New Zealand Open just behind Lydia Ko, planted the banderillas with a ultimate birdie at 17. With a head start, it deprives the two leaders of the day before, Anne Van Dam and Amy Boulden, as well as the French Ariane Provot and Valentine Derrey, of a participation in the 5th and last Major of the season .

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