Carly Booth - © Tristan Jones / LET

The top three players in the European points standings vying for automatic qualification following last week's La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational are Anne Van Dam and Caroline Hedwall (with 114 points each) and Carlota Ciganda (100,88 points). The next five players in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings - who will qualify from four to eight - are Georgia Hall, Charley Hull, Azahara Muñoz, Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Masson.

This week's Jabra Ladies Open is the European qualifying tournament for the Evian Championship, where two players will earn their places in the major championship.

With 20 points available for the winner this week, Carly Booth, currently 26th on the list with 24,5 points, would move closer to the top three places, increasing her chances of representing Europe at home in her county of Perthshire.

Booth said: “I am happy to be back here at the beautiful Evian Resort and I feel positive and good about my game. I think this golf course requires a lot of management so I have to play with my strengths and I hope to do some birdies. As they have lengthened the course, in championship length, I think that suits me better. "

“The Solheim Cup is definitely one of my main goals and I think in order to be part of the team or get that guest spot I really need to win from here to the Solheim. There are a few European women who are playing well this year, so it will be difficult, but you just have to keep trying and I hope to do well this week, go to Evian and play well in the next two months. "

Germany's Esther Henseleit, seventh in the Solheim Cup points standings, Meghan MacLaren, eighth and Norwegian Marianne Skarpnord, tenth, could also move closer to qualifying by gaining points with a top 10 this week.

Henseleit, who has made six top 10s in her first seven starts of her freshman year, was a finalist for the second consecutive time last week in Spain and feels close to a decisive victory.

"Last week was the third time that I was in the leading group of the last lap and I'm getting used to it and improving"said Henseleit, who had already been selected by the captain of Team Europe at the 2017 PING Junior Solheim Cup in Des Moines.

“I think the Solheim Cup is the most important event for women in golf and I really want to be part of it someday. It's an amazing feeling to play for Europe, but I'm not really thinking about the Solheim Cup right now, because it would be practically impossible to get there in the first professional year. "

The Germans Olivia Cowan, Karolin Lampert, the French Camille Chevalier, the Austrian Christine Wolf, the Welsh Becky Morgan, the Briton Felicity Johnson, the Swedes Lynn Carlsson and Lina Boqvist, the Spaniard Luna Sobron, the Japanese Michele Thomson are all in attendance. a theoretical distance from qualifying and are looking for a top position at the Jabra Ladies Open in Evian-les-Bains this week.

After this tournament, there are four other Ladies European Tour events that count towards the European team's qualification for the Solheim Cup, which will take place in Gleneagles, Scotland, next September against the United States.

These are the Ladies European Thailand Championship from June 20 to 23, the Evian Championship from July 25 to 28, the AIG Women's British Open from August 1 to 4 and the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open from 8 to August 11.

To know more : http://www.solheimcup.com/