2016 Evian Championship

2016 Evian Championship
Tournament information
Dates	15–18 September 2016
Location	Évian-les-Bains, France
Course(s)	Evian Resort Golf Club
Tour(s)	Ladies European Tour; LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,482 yards (5,927 m)
Field	120 players, 72 after cut
Cut	145 (+3)
Prize fund	$3,250,000; €2,890,550
Winner's share	$487,500; €433,582
Champion
	Chun In-gee
	263 (−21)
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Evian Resort
Golf Club

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Location in France

The 2016 Evian Championship was played 15–18 September at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France. It was the 23rd Evian Championship (the first nineteen were played as the Evian Masters), and the fifth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour.

Chun In-gee won her first Evian and second major championship, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ryu So-yeon and Park Sung-hyun. Her 21-under-par score was a record for all women's majors.^[2]

The event was televised by Golf Channel and NBC Sports in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

Field[]

The field for the tournament was set at 120, and most earned exemptions based on past performance on the Ladies European Tour (LET), the LPGA Tour, or with a high ranking in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

There were 16 exemption categories for the 2016 Evian Championship.^[3]^[4]^[5]

1. The top 40 in the Women's World Golf Rankings, as of 16 August 2016

Choi Na-yeon (4), Chun In-gee (4), Carlota Ciganda, Shanshan Feng (4,7,8,9), Brooke Henderson (4,6), Charley Hull, Jang Ha-na (6), Ji Eun-hee (9), Ariya Jutanugarn (4,6), Cristie Kerr (6), Kim Hyo-joo (2,6), Kim Sei-young (6), Ko Jin-young, Lydia Ko (2,4,6,9), Jessica Korda (6), Candie Kung, Brittany Lang (4), Alison Lee (9), Minjee Lee (6), Mirim Lee, Stacy Lewis (4), Brittany Lincicome (4), Mo Martin (4), Haru Nomura (6), Anna Nordqvist (6), Lee-Anne Pace (9), Park Sung-hyun, Suzann Pettersen (2), Pornanong Phatlum, Gerina Piller, Morgan Pressel, Ryu So-yeon, Jenny Shin (6), Lexi Thompson (4,6,9), Amy Yang (9)
Ahn Sun-ju (6), Lee Bo-mee, Teresa Lu, Inbee Park (3,4,5,6,9) – thumb injury,^[6] and Jiyai Shin (4,7) did not play

2. Past Evian Championship winners

All already qualified

3. Active Evian Masters Champions (must have played in 10 LPGA Tour or LET events from 6 September 2015 to 6 September 2016)

Paula Creamer, Laura Davies, Juli Inkster, Ai Miyazato, Karrie Webb

4. Winners of the other women's majors for the last five years

Michelle Wie, Yoo Sun-young

5. Gold medal winner at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Already qualified

6. LPGA Tour winners since the 2015 Evian

Caroline Masson

7. LET winners since the 2015 Evian

Isabelle Boineau (8), Céline Herbin, Nuria Iturrioz, In-Kyung Kim, Lee Jung-min, Lin Xiyu, Nanna Koerstz Madsen (8,14), Emily Kristine Pedersen
did not play

8. The top five on the LET Order of Merit, as of 6 September

Beth Allen, Catriona Matthew

9. Top 10 and ties from the 2015 Evian Championship

Lee Mi-hyang, Ilhee Lee

10. 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur champion

Seong Eun-jeong (a)

11. 2016 British Ladies Amateur champion

Julia Engström (a)

12. Top two players from the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship on the Symetra Tour

Laura Gonzalez Escallon, Ally McDonald

13. Top player after the 5 Activia Dream Tour tournaments in South Korea

14. Top two from Evian qualifier

Maria Verchenova

15. Evian invitations (three)

Bronte Law (a), Hannah O'Sullivan (a), Albane Valenzuela (a)

16. LPGA Tour money list, as of 6 September (if needed to fill the field to 120)

Marina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Baek Kyu-jung, Katie Burnett, Chella Choi, Cydney Clanton, , , Austin Ernst, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, , Sandra Gal, Caroline Hedwall, M. J. Hur, Vicky Hurst, Karine Icher, Tiffany Joh, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, , Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Joanna Klatten, , , , Min Lee, Pernilla Lindberg, Gaby López, , Sydnee Michaels, Mika Miyazato, Azahara Muñoz, Su-Hyun Oh, Ryann O'Toole, Annie Park, Park Hee-young, Jane Park, Beatriz Recari, Paula Reto, Lizette Salas, Alena Sharp, , , Jennifer Song, , Angela Stanford, Kris Tamulis, Kelly Tan, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Cheyenne Woods, , , Sakura Yokomine

Nationalities in the field[]

North America (44)	South America (1)	Europe (25)	Oceana (5)	Asia (43)	Africa (2)
Canada (3)	Colombia (1)	England (4)	Australia (4)	China (4)	South Africa (2)
Mexico (1)		Scotland (1)	New Zealand (1)	Japan (5)
United States (40)		Belgium (1)		Malaysia (1)
		Denmark (2)		South Korea (25)
		France (4)		Taiwan (3)
		Germany (2)		Thailand (5)
		Norway (1)
		Russia (1)
		Spain (4)
		Sweden (4)
		Switzerland (1)

Past champions in the field[]

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Kim Hyo-joo	South Korea	2014	72	70	68	75	285	+1	T39
Lydia Ko	New Zealand	2015	70	68	75	73	286	+2	T43
Suzann Pettersen	Norway	2013	73	70	71	75	289	+5	T55

Course[]

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Par	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	35	4	4	4	5	3	5	3	4	4	36	71
Yards	399	165	355	414	188	384	545	189	505	3,144	417	353	406	499	209	527	155	331	441	3,338	6,482
Metres	365	151	325	379	172	351	498	173	461	2,874	381	323	372	456	191	482	142	303	403	3,052	5,926

Source:^[1]

Overlooking Lake Geneva, the average elevation of the course is approximately 480 metres (1,575 ft) above sea level.

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, 15 September 2016

South Koreans Chun In-gee and Park Sung-hyun co-led after the first round at 63 (−8). Defending champion Lydia Ko was seven strokes behind at 70.^[7]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Chun In-gee	South Korea	63	−8
T1	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	63	−8
T3	Shanshan Feng	China	64	−7
T3	Annie Park	United States	64	−7
5	Angela Stanford	United States	65	−6
T6	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	66	−5
	Ryu So-yeon	South Korea
	Danielle Kang	United States
	Ko Jin-young	South Korea
	Lin Xiyu	China
	Brittany Lincicome	United States
	Haru Nomura	Japan
	Gerina Piller	United States
	Jennifer Song	United States

Second round[]

Friday, 16 September 2016

With a 66, Chun In-gee extended her lead to two strokes over Shanshan Feng and Park Sung-hyun.^[8] The cut was 145 (+3) and 72 players advanced to the weekend.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Chun In-gee	South Korea	63-66=129	−13
T2	Shanshan Feng	China	64-67=131	−11
T2	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	63-68=131	−11
4	Ryu So-yeon	South Korea	66-66=132	−10
5	Angela Stanford	United States	65-68=133	−9
T6	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	66-68=134	−8
T6	Brittany Lincicome	United States	68-66=134	−8
8	Jennifer Song	United States	68-67=135	−7
T9	Danielle Kang	United States	68-68=136	−6
T9	Candie Kung	Chinese Taipei	69-67=136	−6

Third round[]

Saturday, 17 September 2016

Chun In-gee shot 65 (−6) for 194 (−19) to stretch her lead to four strokes over Park Sung-hyun.^[9]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Chun In-gee	South Korea	63-66-65=194	−19
2	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	63-68-67=198	−15
3	Shanshan Feng	China	64-67-69=200	−13
4	Ryu So-yeon	South Korea	66-66-69=201	−12
5	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70-69-64=203	−10
6	Angela Stanford	United States	65-68-71=204	−9
7	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	69-71-65=205	−8
T8	Haru Nomura	Japan	68-69-69=206	−7
T8	Jane Park	United States	71-68-67=206	−7
T10	Brooke Henderson	Canada	69-71-67=207	−6
	Gerina Piller	United States	68-72-67=207
	Jennifer Song	United States	68-67-72=207

Final round[]

Sunday, 18 September 2016

Chun In-gee completed her wire-to-wire victory with 69 for 263, four strokes over Park Sung-hyun and Ryu So-yeon. Her 21-under-par total was a record for both women and men. For men's majors, the record is 20 under par, held by Jason Day at the 2015 PGA Championship and Henrik Stenson at the 2016 Open Championship. The previous women's record of 19-under-par was shared by five: Dottie Pepper (1999 Nabisco Dinah Shore), Karen Stupples (2004 Women's British Open), Cristie Kerr (2010 LPGA Championship), Yani Tseng (2011 LPGA Championship, and Inbee Park (2015 KPMG Women's PGA Championship). Her 72-hole total of 263 broke the record of 267 held by Betsy King (1992 LPGA Championship) and was one stroke better than Stenson's 264 at the 2016 Open.^[2]^[10]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Chun In-gee	South Korea	63-66-65-69=263	−21	487,500
T2	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	63-68-67-69=267	−17	259,576
T2	Ryu So-yeon	South Korea	66-66-69-66=267	−17	259,576
4	Shanshan Feng	China	64-67-69-69=269	−15	168,848
5	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	69-71-65-65=270	−14	135,904
6	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70-69-64-69=272	−12	111,194
7	Angela Stanford	United States	65-68-71-70=274	−10	93,074
8	Haru Nomura	Japan	68-69-69-69=275	−9	81,543
T9	Brooke Henderson	Canada	69-71-67-70=277	−7	67,265
	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand	73-67-70-67=277
	Gerina Piller	United States	68-72-67-70=277

Source:^[11]^[12]

Scorecard[]

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	4	4	4	5	3	5	3	4	4
Chun	−19	−19	−20	−20	−20	−20	−20	−21	−21	−21	−21	−21	−21	−20	−21	−21	−21	−21
Park	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−17	−17	−17	−17
Ryu	−13	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−17	−17
Feng	−13	−13	−13	−14	−13	−13	−14	−15	−16	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15
Kim S.Y.	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−10	−12	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14
Kim I.K.	−11	−10	−11	−10	−11	−11	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−12	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

Source:^[11]^[12]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Evian Championship - Course". Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b "In Gee Chun finishes at 21 under for lowest 72-hole score in a major". ESPN. Associated Press. 19 September 2016.
^ "2016 Evian Championship – Press Kit" (PDF). Evian Championship. p. 3.
^ "The Championship – Players". Evian Championship.
^ "2016 Evian Championship – Tournament Entry List". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
^ "Thumb injury knocks Inbee Park from LPGA's final major". ESPN. Associated Press. 1 September 2016.
^ "Gee Chun, Sung Hyun Park share lead at Evian Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. 15 September 2016.
^ "In Gee Chun takes 2-shot lead at Evian Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. 16 September 2016.
^ "In Gee Chun seeks 72-hole scoring record for a major". ESPN. Associated Press. 18 September 2016.
^ "News and Notes – Final Round Evian Championship". LPGA. 18 September 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Evian Championship". LPGA.com. 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Evian Championship". Ladies European Tour. 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.

External links[]

Preceded by 2016 Women's British Open	Major Championships	Succeeded by 2017 ANA Inspiration

Coordinates: 46°23′38″N 6°34′12″E / 46.394°N 6.570°E / 46.394; 6.570

[ergc-1] "The Evian Championship - Course". Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[ESPN-2] "In Gee Chun finishes at 21 under for lowest 72-hole score in a major". ESPN. Associated Press. 19 September 2016.

[3] "2016 Evian Championship – Press Kit" (PDF). Evian Championship. p. 3.

[4] "The Championship – Players". Evian Championship.

[5] "2016 Evian Championship – Tournament Entry List". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

[6] "Thumb injury knocks Inbee Park from LPGA's final major". ESPN. Associated Press. 1 September 2016.

[7] "Gee Chun, Sung Hyun Park share lead at Evian Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. 15 September 2016.

[8] "In Gee Chun takes 2-shot lead at Evian Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. 16 September 2016.

[9] "In Gee Chun seeks 72-hole scoring record for a major". ESPN. Associated Press. 18 September 2016.

[10] "News and Notes – Final Round Evian Championship". LPGA. 18 September 2016.

[evnsxtn-11] "Evian Championship". LPGA.com. 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.

[evchsnx-12] "Evian Championship". Ladies European Tour. 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.

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