2022 Amundi Evian Championship, July 21-24

[18majors]

• Race to the CME Globe: 650 Points
• Format: 72 holes
• Purse: $6,500,000
• Par: 71
• History: This event became an official LPGA Tour event in 2000. It serves as the season's fifth major championship.
• Yardage: 6,523

It's a major, the winner wins 650 CME Globe points and $1.0 million prize.  Nine of ten Top-10 players are in the field, Lexi is sitting out.  Minjee has won and finished second in the last two majors; Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda haven't distinguished themselves thus far this year.

 

We've got plenty of broadcast time but it's a bit unwieldy:

Golf Channel

• July 21 Golf Channel (ET)5:00 - 7:00 a.m.
• July 21 Golf Channel (ET)9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (ET)5:00 - 7:00 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (ET)9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• July 23 Golf Channel (ET)5:30 - 9:00 a.m.
• July 24 Golf Channel (ET)5:30 - 9:00 a.m.

CNBC

• July 23 CNBC (ET)9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
• July 24 CNBC (ET)9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

NBC Sports Streaming

• uly 21 Golf Channel (Stream ET)7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
• July 21 Golf Channel (Stream ET)11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (Stream ET)7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (Stream ET)11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 18, 2022 by 18majors

[18majors]

 

Bet365.com betting favorites:

 

Minjee Lee                       10/1         Nelly Korda                  10/1        Lydia Ko                    15/1

Jin Young Ko                    17/1         Atthaya Thitikul           21/1        Brooke Henderson   23/1                   

[Lobby]

My DVR is gonna be overworked for this tournament.

[AWinfortheAges]

Lexi's sitting out? 

[18majors]

8 minutes ago, AWinfortheAges said:

Lexi's sitting out? 

She won’t play Amundi nor Trust in Scotland.  It’d be a real surprise if she skips AIG as well.

 

My hunch is AIG will raise their purse to at least $8.0 million; maybe as high as $12.0 million!

[woahnelly]

Yikes Linn Grant is between +2800 and +3300, the hype is real. Hopefully she is cheaper on DFS sites.

 

Min Ji +5000, Gina Kim +30000. 

 

I like Jeeno at her odds.

[18majors]

 

This is a nice teaser video:

 

 

 

 

[Titleist_PT23]

2 hours ago, AWinfortheAges said:

Lexi's sitting out? 

Lexi had an entitled person meltdown here in 2019, she didn't play last year either.  Quite frankly, tournament is probably glad she's not coming too.

[Titleist_PT23]

SYR for a third (different) major.  Our Lee6 to redeem last year.  Unfortunately, neither has high odds...

[18majors]

6 minutes ago, agolf1 said:

SYR for a third (different) major.

 

 

So Yeon is the biggest mystery of 2022.  She's #110 in CME Globe ranking; she's played ten times and T21 at Honda LPGA Thailand in March was her best result.

 

So Yeon, Hyo Joo, Lydia and Yealimi will play at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia during August 18-20, 2022:

Hyo-Joo Kim, So-Yeon Yoo, Bo-Mi Lee, and Yu-Min Hwang to participate in the Asia Pacific Women's National Golf Tournament

[Titleist_PT23]

3 hours ago, 18majors said:

 

 

So Yeon is the biggest mystery of 2022.  She's #110 in CME Globe ranking; she's played ten times and T21 at Honda LPGA Thailand in March was her best result.

 

So Yeon, Hyo Joo, Lydia and Yealimi will play at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia during August 18-20, 2022:

Hyo-Joo Kim, So-Yeon Yoo, Bo-Mi Lee, and Yu-Min Hwang to participate in the Asia Pacific Women's National Golf Tournament

SYR  is old, and has probably kind of moved on in life (more diplomatic than a "sinking ship").  She put everything into it in 2016-2018, as she was tired of not winning.  Had a great stretch, but was probably never as good as some of the others that reached that spot.

 

Hope she can win again (2018 KPMG was a big dagger).  I still blame Inbee's play less, but win big attitude for torpedoing SYR's game; SYR's margin to pullback on practice, etc just wasn't that large.

 

Anyways, hope she can join my other old-timer favorites of Minjee and In Gee as major hardware winners this year!

[AWinfortheAges]

4 hours ago, agolf1 said:

Lexi had an entitled person meltdown here in 2019, she didn't play last year either.  Quite frankly, tournament is probably glad she's not coming too.

I had forgotten about those comments. So you're saying Olympics prep last year was a convenient excuse?

[JungleJimbo]

12 hours ago, 18majors said:

• Race to the CME Globe: 650 Points
• Format: 72 holes
• Purse: $6,500,000
• Par: 71
• History: This event became an official LPGA Tour event in 2000. It serves as the season's fifth major championship.
• Yardage: 6,523

It's a major, the winner wins 650 CME Globe points and $1.0 million prize.  Nine of ten Top-10 players are in the field, Lexi is sitting out.  Minjee has won and finished second in the last two majors; Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda haven't distinguished themselves thus far this year.

 

We've got plenty of broadcast time but it's a bit unwieldy:

Golf Channel

• July 21 Golf Channel (ET)5:00 - 7:00 a.m.
• July 21 Golf Channel (ET)9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (ET)5:00 - 7:00 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (ET)9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• July 23 Golf Channel (ET)5:30 - 9:00 a.m.
• July 24 Golf Channel (ET)5:30 - 9:00 a.m.

CNBC

• July 23 CNBC (ET)9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
• July 24 CNBC (ET)9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

NBC Sports Streaming

• uly 21 Golf Channel (Stream ET)7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
• July 21 Golf Channel (Stream ET)11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (Stream ET)7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
• July 22 Golf Channel (Stream ET)11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cwebb]

I've got Thitikul walking away with this one.   She had stretches of red hot play on this course last year

[Titleist_PT23]

3 hours ago, AWinfortheAges said:

I had forgotten about those comments. So you're saying Olympics prep last year was a convenient excuse?

I can't really say for sure.  I think the schedule would have allowed her to play (at Evian) had she wanted to do so.  Also understandable if she didn't want to go to Europe for one event and/or preferred to leave for Japan directly from home.  So her statement may have been true.  Or at least not unwillingly false.  But the whole truth?  Who knows.

 

Perhaps her team felt it was best to leave for Japan early in case she forgot her passport in her golf bag again.😆

[iBanesto]

Jin Young Ko.

 

🇰🇷

 

[Titleist_PT23]

15 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

Jin Young Ko.

 

🇰🇷

 

JYK is trying too hard in the majors.

[JungleJimbo]

 

[iBanesto]

2 minutes ago, agolf1 said:

JYK is trying too hard in the majors.

 

[JungleJimbo]

30 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

Jin Young Ko.

 

🇰🇷

 

 

maybe JYK this week?

 

Edited July 19, 2022 by JungleJimbo

[JungleJimbo]

12 minutes ago, agolf1 said:

JYK is trying too hard in the majors.

 

JYK's videos seem to indicate a good balance of working hard at her golf ... and eating hard too! (some of these videos = more 'mukbang' than golf!)

 

 

[Titleist_PT23]

12 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

 

The pressure is on in these weeks.  She wants to win, which creates more pressure, and she doesn't play as well as she usually does.

 

Repeat a couple of times and it is even worse.  Maybe she'll break through again soon, but she needs a few more big ones to move up the ranks (relative to what else she's done on tour).

[iBanesto]

1 minute ago, agolf1 said:

The pressure is on in these weeks.  She wants to win, which creates more pressure, and she doesn't play as well as she usually does.

 

Repeat a couple of times and it is even worse.  Maybe she'll break through again soon, but she needs a few more big ones to move up the ranks (relative to what else she's done on tour).

 

I am sure Ko wants to win every week she plays.

[Argonne69]

Plenty of past champions are in good form going into this week, e.g. Lydia, In Gee, and Minjee. I wouldn't say Jin Young is in poor form, but with only four top 10s in nine starts she's definitely off track.

 

[18majors]

 

New York Times has joined the fray:

The Players to Watch at the Evian

 

Nelly Korda

Minjee Lee

Lydia Ko

Atthaya Thitikul

Jennifer Kupcho

 

 

Edited July 19, 2022 by 18majors

[pmcuk]

Heat will be 32° every day. Maybe not unusual for parts of the LPGA tour but unusual for Europe. 

[18majors]

 

Yealimi hasn't found a regular caddie yet; she'll use a local caddie this week.

[18majors]

 

Will Annika finally get the same recognition on "Growing the Game" as Se Ri Pak?

STARK AND GRANT RESUME RACE IN EVIAN

 

Edited July 19, 2022 by 18majors

[18majors]

 

Tee time on Thursday:

 

#10 Tee

 

8:03 AM

Brooke Henderson

Jessica Korda

Sei Young Kim

 

8:15 AM

Jin Young Ko

Anna Nordqvist

Lydia Ko

 

8:27 AM

In Gee Chun

Jennifer Kupcho

Minjee Lee

 

1:15 PM

Nelly Korda

Celine Boutier

Yuka Saso

 

[18majors]

Will Min Ji Park, like Hinako Shibuno, win a LPGA major on her first trip abroad?

Will Min Ji Park win 2nd consecutive major for Korea?