The history of the Amundi Evian Championship

The Amundi Evian Championship is the youngest of the nine major championships, with just over decade of history behind the event.

It wasn’t until 2013 that the Amundi Evian Championship became a major, but the tournament had been around on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour prior to that.

Since its addition to the major calendar, making it five majors each year in the women’s game, there has not been a repeat winner of the event.

In its first 12 years, players from eight different nationalities have been victorious. Only South Korea have had more than one winner of the tournament.

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Prior to the change in 2013, which saw the awarding of major status to the event, the Evian Masters had been held on the Ladies European Tour since 1994.

The event was an LET tournament for six years, before becoming a co-sanctioned event on both the LET and LPGA Tour from 2000 onwards.

Sweden’s Helen Alfredsson was the victor of the inaugural edition, and she would go on to become the only three-time winner of the Evian Masters. The Swede was also victorious in 1998 and 2008.

Dame Laura Davies, Annika Sorenstam and Ai Miyazato were the other two-time winners of the Evian Masters during its time as a ‘normal’ tour event.

The event then received major status, with the 2013 Evian Championship becoming the fifth major on the women’s calendar. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen became the first winner of the newly-renamed Evian Championship. In doing so, the Norwegian won the first major to be held in continental Europe. Hyo-Joo Kim won in 2014, and she would be followed by In-Gee Chun and Jin Young Ko as the other South Korean women to be victorious at the Evian Resort. 2021 saw the name of the event change to the Amundi Evian Championship, thanks to asset management group Amundi becoming the title sponsors of the tournament. Minjee Lee won that year, with Canada’s Brooke Henderson and then home favourite Celine Boutier taking the most recent victories at the event. Boutier became the first Frenchwoman to win a major championship on home soil with her win in 2023.

The Evian Resort, which has played host to the tournament ever since its inception in 1994, has seen plenty of records broken, especially when it comes to single-round scoring.

2016 winner In-Gee Chun set the tournament scoring record, with a finishing score of 21-under. There have also been three women to shoot 61 at the Amundi Evian Championship, the joint lowest round in a major.

Hyo-Joo Kim was the first to do in tournament history, way back in 2014. That 10-under single round score was then matched by both Jeong-eun Lee6 and Ireland’s Leona Maguire in 2021, with the Irishwoman doing so in the final round. She became the first player to card a 61 in the final round of a major championship in doing so.

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