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Korean Ryu So-yeon missed out after first round scores were annulled
‘Major’
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Judgement As Mike Wilson states, LPGA commissioner Mike Whan’s recent decision – the second time in five years - to cut the LPGA Tour’s final ‘Major,’ the Evian Championship in France to 54 holes due to a near wash-out of the first day was a rare error of judgment.
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of play in the first round was warranted. Perhaps play – given the weather forecast for later in the day - should never have started. But try telling that to a Tournament Director with a high-profile event to complete - ideally in four days – with the competing and often conflicting pressures of TV and the rest of the media, players and their coaches, sponsors, spectators et al. But the 2017 Evian Championship did indeed get underway, and, even in the rain, early scores were mixed; South Korean star So Yeon Ryu was three-under after five, Jessica Korda minustwo after eight, Japanese icon Ai Miyazako, making her valedictory appearance not faring so well, three-over-par through six holes.
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he para l lel decision to once aga i n a n nu l a l l t he scores posted on that raininterrupted opening round should never be repeated if the game in general and women’s golf, in particular, is to retain or regain its integrity and credibility. OK, the rain on the opening morning of the Evian Championship, the final ‘Major’ of an enthralling LPGA Tour season to date, was of Biblical proportions. The Evian Resort – ironically famed for its mineral water spa - on the southern shores of Lake Geneva awash, the wind was howling too, dangerously so, hence a suspension in, as opposed to an abandonment
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