The 2017 Women's Golf Majors season has just started. The opportunity for the Evian Championship, the last stage which will take place at the Evian Resort Golf Club from September 14 to 17, to consolidate its strategic position and to reaffirm the will of its president, Franck Riboud, to use the notoriety and the power of the event to create an international springboard in the service of the next generation of world golf. The last stage of the season, the Evian Championship brings together the 120 best players in the world who will fight for the title, but also for the Rolex Annika Major Award. For the 4th consecutive year, RAMA will crown the champion who has signed the best performance during the 5 Majors of the season.

The Evian Championship, which organizes the official ceremony on Saturday, September 16, will honor the champions before their coronation at the end of the tournament. Who will succeed Michelle Wie (2014), Inbee Park (2015) and Lydia Ko (2016)? So Yeon Ryu, recent winner of the ANA Inspiration, the first Major of the season, has set serious milestones in this race for excellence.

Assignment of a new wildcard

To support this rise of the event, a partnership has just been concluded between Évian and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) .Many actions have been put in place, perfectly echoing the ambitions of setting up the platform. Evian Championship at the service of young talents to best support them in their sporting practice and promote the emergence of champions. As such, a new wildcard was awarded to the amateur player who received the Rolex Girls Junior Player of the Year 2016. Paphangkorn Tavatanakit (17) thus wins her passport for the Evian Championship 2017. The number 1 Thai amateur, University player from UCLA, had already been noticed in 2014 during the Callaway Junior World Championship with an incredible score of 60 (-12), a real feat.

A platform dedicated to young talents

The Evian Championship platform is experiencing a real boom with the creation of new events dedicated to the best international amateur players, planned at the Evian Resort Golf Club from this year but also in 2018. The flagship aspect of the partnership with the AJGA, the creation of 'a new mixed tournament for under 18s. Organized at the Evian Resort Golf Club next October, the Evian Junior Event will form a Team France made up of the 8 best of the event (6 boys, 2 girls). This selection will then have the opportunity to compete in the Evian International & Senior Showcase in Las Vegas and to be spotted by the greatest American university coaches. The Evian Resort Golf Club will also host the Arnold Palmer Cup in July 2018. This will be the 22nd edition of this great confrontation between two mixed university teams, an American against an international. With the implementation of these projects, the Evian Championship is pursuing an ever more committed policy in favor of the future of golf.

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