Ko Jin-young, Yang Hee-young, and Kim Hyo-joo will participate in the preliminary round of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Evian Championship, the fourth major tournament of the U.S. LPGA Tour season, will take place at the Evian Resort Golf Club (par 71) in the southeastern French resort city of Evian-Levin for four days from Wednesday. The total prize money will be 8 million U.S. dollars.
In total, the Korean players have won the Evian Championship five times. Including the previous players, Evian Masters, Shin Ji-ae, Park In-bee, Kim Hyo-joo, Chun In-gee, and Ko Jin-young all won the championship.
In particular, for Ko Jin-young, Yang Hee-young, and Kim Hyo-joo, it is no different from the preliminary round of the Paris Olympics.
In the world rankings announced after the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Ko Jin-young is third, Yang Hee-young is fifth, and Kim Hyo-joo is 13th, securing her spot at the Paris Olympics. Ko Jin-young and Kim Hyo-joo are competing for the second time in a row and Yang Hee-young is competing in the Olympics for the first time in eight years since the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Yang Hee-young has the best pace these days.
Yang Hee-young earned her Olympic ticket by winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She was far from qualified for the Olympics because she was 25th before winning, but with this victory, she secured a ticket to Paris. Yang’s victory was the first for a Korean player to win at her 16th event in 2024. Yang starts in groups such as former major champion Nelly Korda (the Chevron Championship, USA) and Yuka Saso (the U.S. Women’s Open, Japan).
Ko Jin-young dreams of reclaiming the Evian Championship title for the first time in five years since 2019. She finished second in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and tied for eighth in the team tournament, the Dow Championship, with Nasa Hataoka of Japan.
Kim Hyo-joo also won the 2014 Evian Championship. She showed strong performances in the Evian Championship, tying for second in 2019 and third in 2022. However, her recent results have been uneven. She tied for 16th in the sponsored competition, the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Lotte Open.
The strongest players of the KLPGA Tour also threw away the gauntlet.
In the KLPGA tour, Lee Ye-won, Park Ji-young, and Hwang Yoo-min, who are tied for first place with multiple wins (three wins), will participate. They have settled in the top 50 in the world. Park Hyun-kyung, who is also tied for first place with multiple wins, also chose to take a break even though she is in the top 50.
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