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Sunday 18 September 2016LPGA TourYear in Review
Chun wins Evian Championship
Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains, France · Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 September 2016 · In Gee Chun’s win no. 2 on the LPGA Tour · purse $3,250,000 USD
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 05 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R121°/16°C · wind 6 km/h WNW, gusts 29 · 27.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R217°/14°C · wind 9 km/h SW, gusts 23 · 11.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R315°/14°C · wind 9 km/h WSW, gusts 25 · 15.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/14°C · wind 8 km/h W, gusts 22 · 21.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Evian Masters
- Evian Championship
- Amundi Evian Championship
1994–2026 in our record, 32 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Sung Hyun Park KOR · 267Shared the first-round lead with Chun on 63 but closed 69 and finished four shots back in a tie for second. In Gee Chun finishes at 21 under for lowest 72-hole score in a major (AP via ESPN)
- So Yeon Ryu KOR · 267Four rounds in the 60s with one bogey all week, closing 66, still finished four shots behind Chun's record 263. The Evian Championship: So Yeon Ryu interview, September 18 2016 (ASAP Sports)
120 started · cut +3, 72 made it
Same week
Women's major
Evian Championship
Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sung Hyun Park, So Yeon Ryu
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2016
Without nerves, I feel bored. Nothing, bored. I had a lot of pressure on the course, but I much enjoyed my game.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2016
My caddie, David Jones, told me, In Gee, try and enjoy your walking, and then he said, you can try to make a par. If you make the par, I buy the dinner.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2016
She's a rookie right now, but she's not really like a rookie. She's a rookie but not rookie.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Gee Chun | 63 · 66 · 65 · 69 | 263 | −21 |
| T2 | Sung Hyun Park | 63 · 68 · 67 · 69 | 267 | −17 |
| T2 | So Yeon Ryu | 66 · 66 · 69 · 66 | 267 | −17 |
| 4 | Shanshan Feng | 64 · 67 · 69 · 69 | 269 | −15 |
| 5 | Sei Young Kim | 69 · 71 · 65 · 65 | 270 | −14 |
| 6 | In-Kyung Kim | 70 · 69 · 64 · 69 | 272 | −12 |
| 7 | Angela Stanford | 65 · 68 · 71 · 70 | 274 | −10 |
| 8 | Haru Nomura | 68 · 69 · 69 · 69 | 275 | −9 |
| T9 | Brooke Henderson | 69 · 71 · 67 · 70 | 277 | −7 |
| T9 | Ariya Jutanugarn | 73 · 67 · 70 · 67 | 277 | −7 |
| T9 | Gerina Piller | 68 · 72 · 67 · 70 | 277 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1994-08-10, Gunsan, South Korea; KOR; turned pro 2012; age 22 that week; tour wins to date: 2; majors to date: 2; world No. 7 that week (Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking entering the week, as stated by Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings, list of 12 September 2016 (LPGA.com PDF): "7 -- In Gee Chun KOR 57 354.42 6.22").
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet