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Saturday 22 June 1996Women’s tour eventsYear in Review

Davies wins Evian Masters

Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains, France · Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 June 1996 · purse FRF 3,000,000 · winner's share FRF 450,000

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

15 h 36 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/16°C · wind 13 km/h SW, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R219°/15°C · wind 15 km/h SW, gusts 54 · 2.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R319°/14°C · wind 6 km/h SSW, gusts 34 · 28.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R415°/10°C · wind 11 km/h NW, gusts 32 · 18.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Evian Masters
  2. Evian Championship
  3. Amundi Evian Championship

1994–2026 in our record, 32 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's tour event

Evian Masters

Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Laura Davies

274Total
−14To par
4 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Carin Koch

The golfer

b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 32 at the win (year page)

Laura Davies’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet