Since it became the fifth head of women’s golf in 2013, the avian Championship crowned a Litni of high ranked champions. This is not a tournament where surprise.
This week, the choice of Nelly Corda and Geno Thaitikul will try to add their own chapters to this brief history as the championship begins at the avian resort in Avian-Less-Bans, France on Thursday.
World No. 1 Coorda is still looking for its first win of 2025 after collecting seven titles in 2024. Thaitikul, Thailand, at number 2 in the world, has yet to win a major win and a disappointing woman is coming out of the PGA Championship, where she led each of the first two rounds, which was in fourth place.
Nevertheless, Thatikul is only 22 years old and will have more opportunities. The 26 -year -old Corda jokingly said that she does not recognize half the players on the tour this year.
“I think a grandmother is out of here,” Corda said. “But, yes, this is the best thing about the game in general, it is that you can never be comfortable where you are, because there is a new generation, new talent is coming, and they are going to be better and more knowledge.”
This is not strictly a young woman’s game. Australia’s Minaji Lee-who qualify as a veteran of a tour at 29-broke the 20-month title when she made the previous allegations of Thaitikul in the weekend to win the lead female PGA of her third career.
“I think there are lots that are very small now and it’s very good,” Lee said. “They are always pushing me and we are pushing all the big girls. … Obviously I get inspiration from it, but I think I am very self-inspired at this time.”
Lee won her first head in Evian in 2021. Other big names in the list of avian winners include Canadian Brooke Henderson (2022), South Korean Jeen-Angle (2019) and Zee Chun (2016) and New Zealand’s Lidah (2015).
Celine Boutare became the first French winner of the event in 2023, when she ran away with a six-stroke win.
“I think every time the European swing comes around, I am very excited that I am coming back home, looking at my family and some friends and just feeling energy, environment, it gives me a little boost and hopes hoping good energy,” Boutare said. “If I can go in those weeks, I know that I get some kind of speed for the rest of the season.”
Ayaka Furu of Japan, at that time only 24, won one-shot last year. And even younger women are knowing themselves in the game.
Loti Vod, a 21 -year -old England, is the number 1 in the World Amateur ranking, and last week, six shots dominated a region of women’s European tour professionals to win a female Irish Open.
“I am just trying to move to speed,” Vod said. “If this means that I can get into a dispute, it will be great. In fact, just trying to play good golf and continue what I was doing last week.”
Evian Resort is a par-71, 6,504-yard course that sees the Lake of Geneva. Although perhaps women’s golfs were overched by other big companies, it is known for its amazing ideas.
Corda said, “It is not as bad to kill a bad shot from here as is killing it elsewhere.”
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