Evian Championship: Nelly Korda, Charley Hull, British hopes and how to watch women's major live on Sky Sports

The ladies’s main season continues this week with the Evian Championship, with Jeeno Thitikul having one other alternative to finish Nelly Korda’s reign on the high of the world rankings. We check out a number of the potential storylines to observe this week in France…

Can Korda finish America’s mini main drought?

9 of the final 10 main winners within the males’s sport have been American, with Rory McIlroy’s Grand Slam success at The Masters the one exception, though the identical stage of success has not been matched within the ladies’s majors.

Korda’s Chevron Championship win final April is the newest American ladies’s main champion, with the final seven majors producing completely different winners from outdoors of america – Minjee Lee, Maja Stark, Mao Saigo, Lydia Ko, Ayaka Furue, Amy Yang and Yuka Saso.

Korda stays high of the world rankings and among the many favourites to finish that drought this week, however stays winless in 2025 with Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho and Yealimi Noh the one Individuals to have an LPGA Tour victory this season.

The 2-time main winner has not completed outdoors the highest 30 in any occasion over the previous yr however arrives together with her world No 1 standing below menace as soon as once more, with Jeeno Thitikul closing after her sturdy displaying on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship final month.

Will Hull push for maiden main title?

Charley Hull has been among the many pre-tournament favourites heading into virtually each main in current seasons, with the Englishwoman seeking to construct on tied-Twelfth finishes on the US Girls’s Open and the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.

She was a two-time main runner-up in 2023 and has been largely constant within the massive occasions, posting top-25s in seven of the final 9 majors, whereas Hull additionally has beforehand completed tied-third at this occasion.

Hull comes into the occasion having completed fourth on the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open final week, as novice Lottie Woad claimed her breakthrough Women European Tour win, with loads of encouraging indicators in her sport heading into the summer season.

Her final two appearances on the Evian Championship have resulted in missed cuts, however Hull might be hopeful of difficult for an elusive maiden main and changing into the primary English feminine main champion since Georgia Corridor in 2018.

Which different Brits are concerned?

Woad was given a sponsor’s exemption into this week’s occasion earlier than her dominant six-shot win in Eire on Sunday, with the 21-year-old now closing in on securing LPGA Tour membership.

A top-25 end would safe her the 2 factors wanted to achieve 20 required to safe her LPGA Tour membership via the LPGA Elite Newbie Pathway (LEAP), a system that gives amateurs factors based mostly on achievements made in quite a lot of occasions.

Bronte Regulation, Alice Hewson, Cara Gainer and Mimi Rhodes – a three-time winner on the Women European Tour this season – are the opposite English gamers scheduled to characteristic.

Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh and Eire’s Leona Maguire are additionally within the subject, with Wales’ Darcey Harry that includes after her maiden Women European Tour title on the Hulencourt Girls’s Open final month.

Who has impressed right here earlier than and who might this time round?

The Evian Championship launched in 1994 on the Women European Tour and have become co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour in 2000, though solely turned elevated to main championship standing in 2013.

Solheim Cup captain Anna Nordqvist gained the 2017 contest in a play-off and France’s Celine Boutier cruised to a house main victory by six pictures in 2023, whereas this yr’s occasion marks the tenth anniversary of Ko changing into the youngest main winner in historical past when aged simply 18.

Furue returns as defending champion after final yr’s dramatic victory, the place she adopted three consecutive birdies from the 14th with a final-hole eagle to complete one forward of Australia’s Stephanie Kyriacou.

2021 winner Lee is chasing successive main titles, having gained the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship final month, whereas Ruoning Yin has high 4 finishes in two of the primary three majors of the season.

When is the Evian Championship stay on Sky Sports activities?

Sky Sports activities will present prolonged stay protection from the fourth ladies’s main of the yr, with six hours of stay motion for every spherical plus each day highlights.

Reside protection begins at 11am over the primary two rounds and 9am over the weekend, with one-hour highlights then proven at 8.30pm on Thursday and Friday and 8pm for the ultimate two days.

Thursday – 1100-1700 – stay on Sky Sports activities Combine and Sky Sports activities+
Friday – 1100-1700 – stay on Sky Sports activities Combine and Sky Sports activities+
Saturday – 0900-1500 – stay on Sky Sports activities Golf and Sky Sports activities Combine
Sunday – 0900-1500 – stay on Sky Sports activities Golf and Sky Sports activities Combine

What different golf is stay on Sky Sports activities this week?

There are two occasions on the DP World Tour and PGA Tour this week, with the Genesis Scottish Open and ISCO Championship co-sanctioned by each excursions and each stay on Sky Sports activities.

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy headline a powerful subject in Scotland, the place there are additionally three last-minute qualification spots up for grabs to characteristic in The Open subsequent week at Royal Portrush.

Reside protection from Scotland begins on Thursday with Featured Teams from 8.30am on Sky Sports activities Golf forward of full protection from 1pm. The Isco Championship is then stay from 9.30pm that night. Not bought Sky? Stream the PGA Tour and more with no contract.