2013 Evian Championship Explained

2013 Evian Championship
Location:	Évian-les-Bains, France
Course:	Evian Resort Golf Club
Dates:	12–15 September 2013
Tour:	Ladies European Tour LPGA Tour
Par:	71^[1]
Field:	120 players, 77 after cut
Cut:	146 (+4)
Purse:	$3,250,000 €2,496,170
Winners Share:	$487,500 €366,393
Champion:	Suzann Pettersen
Score:	203 (−10)
Next:	2014

The 2013 Evian Championship was played 12–15 September at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France. It was the 20th Evian Championship (the first 19 played as the Evian Masters), and the first as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. The inaugural event was televised by Golf Channel and NBC Sports in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

Heavy rain before and during the first day of the tournament forced Thursday's played to be suspended and the scores abandoned. The initial plan was to play the first and second rounds on Friday and Saturday and play the final 36 holes on Sunday. The prediction of more heavy rain on Sunday and several following days forced tournament officials to shorten the event to 54 holes.^[2]

Suzann Pettersen won by two strokes over amateur Lydia Ko.

Field

The field for the tournament was set at 120, and most earned exemptions based on past performance on the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA Tour, or with a high ranking in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

There were seven exemption categories for the 2013 Evian Championship.^[3]

1. The top 40 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.
2. Active Evian Masters Champions.
3. 2013 LPGA Tour winners.
4. 2013 Ladies European Tour (LET) winners.
5. The top 5 on the LET Order of Merit.
6. Evian invitations (six).
7. Remainder of players from the LPGA Tour money list.

Course

See main article: article and Evian Resort Golf Club.

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Par	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	35	4	4	4	5	3	5	3	4	4	36	71
Yards	395	165	343	414	179	377	529	189	475	3,066	406	353	428	499	221	527	155	331	442	3,362	6,428
Metres	361	151	314	379	164	345	484	173	434	2,805	371	323	391	456	202	482	142	303	404	3,074	5,879

Source:^[1]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 12 September 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013

Thursday's play began after a two-hour rain delay. Play was suspended after less than an hour due to continuing rain. The scores were annulled and play resumed on Friday. The course had received almost 4inches of rain since the previous Saturday.^{[4] [5]} The first round was played on Friday with Mika Miyazato of Japan shooting a 6-under-par 65 to take a one stroke lead over Sandra Gal, Se Ri Pak, and Suzann Pettersen.^[6]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		65	−6
align=center rowspan=3	T2		align=center rowspan=3	66	align=center rowspan=3	−5
Se Ri Pak
Suzann Pettersen
5		67	−4
align=center rowspan=4	T6	Lydia Ko (a)	align=center rowspan=4	68	align=center rowspan=4	−3
Karrie Webb
Michelle Wie
Lindsey Wright
align=center rowspan=10	T10		align=center rowspan=10	69	align=center rowspan=10	−2
Na Yeon Choi
Hee-Won Han
I.K. Kim
Stacy Lewis
Ji-Young Oh
Lee-Anne Pace
Beatriz Recari
Angela Stanford
Ayako Uehara

Second round

Saturday, 14 September 2013

Mika Miyazato shot a 2-under-par 69 to maintain a one-shot lead over Suzann Pettersen and amateur Lydia Ko.^[7] The cut was at 146 (+4) and 77 players made the cut.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		65-69=134	−8
align=center rowspan=2	T2	Lydia Ko (a)	68-67=135	align=center rowspan=2	−7
	66-69=135
4		69-67=136	−6
align=center rowspan=3	T5		70-67=137	align=center rowspan=3	−5
	66-71=137
	71-66=137
align=center rowspan=3	T8		69-69=138	align=center rowspan=3	−4
	69-69=138
	68-70=138

Final round

Sunday, 15 September 2013

The event was reduced to 54 holes due to heavy rain.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Suzann Pettersen	66-69-68=203	−10	487,500
2		68-67-70=205	−8	0
3		72-67-68=207	−6	297,994
align=center rowspan=2	T4		66-71-71=208	align=center rowspan=2	−5	align=center rowspan=2	191,700
	71-66-71=208
align=center rowspan=3	T6		70-67-72=209	align=center rowspan=3	−4	align=center rowspan=3	112,302
	69-67-73=209
	69-71-69=209
align=center rowspan=2	T9		70-70-70=210	align=center rowspan=2	−3	align=center rowspan=2	76,681
	69-69-72=210

Source:^[8]

(a) = amateur

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	4	4	4	5	3	5	3	4	4
Pettersen	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10
Ko	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8
Thompson	−3	−4	−5	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6
Pak	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−4	−5	−5
Ryu	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−5
Lewis	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4
Miyazato	−7	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−1	−1	−1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

^[9]

External links

• • Coverage on the Ladies European Tour's official site
• Coverage on the LPGA Tour's official site

46.394°N 6.57°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Evian Championship - Course . 12 September 2013.
2. Web site: Evian Championship – Second Round Notes and Interviews . LPGA . 14 September 2013 . 14 September 2013.
3. Web site: 2013 Evian Championship – Tournament Entry List . . 12 September 2013.
4. News: Rain postpones play on day 1 . ESPN . Associated Press . 12 September 2013 . 12 September 2013.
5. Web site: Evian Championship First Round to Re-start Friday . Ladies European Tour . 12 September 2013 . 12 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131214013022/http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/main_article.php?id=68032&pid=1001 . 14 December 2013 . dead . dmy-all .
6. News: Mika Miyazato shoots 65 at Evian . ESPN . Associated Press . 13 September 2013 . 13 September 2013.
7. News: Mika Miyazato leads Evian by 1 . ESPN . Associated Press . 14 September 2013 . 14 September 2013.
8. Web site: Leaderboard: Evian Championship . Yahoo! Sports . 2013 . September 10, 2014.
9. Web site: Golf Channel . The Evian Championship . September 3, 2018.