Most of the world’s best women golfers are competing in this week’s Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth major championship of the season, and for many, it won’t be their only trip to France this summer.
Sixty golfers will return to Paris on Aug. 7-10 for the women’s Olympic golf competition at Le Golf National, the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Former Duke star Celine Boutier, the defending Amundi Evian Championship winner, will represent France in the Olympics.
Each of the top 10 players in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings qualified for the Olympics, including world No. 1 Nelly Korda, No. 2 Lilia Vu and No. 8 Rose Zhang, who will all represent the U.S.
“Gosh, I’m so excited,” Korda said. “Any time I get to represent my country it’s just such a really big honor. To get to do that at the Olympics is going to be an amazing experience again. Getting to do it in Paris, maybe this year getting to watch a couple sports that we didn’t get to do in Japan and Tokyo.”
Korda, 25, is the defending gold medalist after finishing 17-under 267 at the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021. She finished…
