LPGA Tour Evian Championship leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/the-evian-championship/leaderboard
The main storyline going into today's start of play at the newly re-vamped Evian Resort Golf Course is that world #1 Inbee Park has a chance to become only the second player in LPGA Tour history to complete the Super Career Grand Slam, that means to win the five different major championships. Karrie Webb is the only player to do so in 2002.
Now whether there should be 5 majors is still a contentious point to many. The women have the US and British Open's which speak for themselves, as does their KPMG PGA, but only the men play the Masters, the women also have the ANA Inspiration which is the old Kraft Nabisco or Dinah Shore as a major and since 2013 the Evian
In a statement explaining their decision they say, "the LPGA did not add a fifth major championship to change history, alter discussion or make the accomplishment of a “grand slam” more difficult. We added a fifth major to create an incremental opportunity for the women’s game."
Many of us in this country feel that if there were to be a 5th major, the obvious one to pick would be the CP Canadian Women's Open.
Park has won an amazing six of the last 14 majors dating back to the 2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship and no other player has won more than one during that span.
Alena Sharp has just finished her 1st round with +4 75, and Brooke Henderson is just teeing off as I write.
The clubhouse leader with a bogey free -5 66 is Lexi Thompson.
Bryan Angus
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