The field list for the Armundi Evian Championship is out, and several marquee names won’t be in France for the year’s fourth major. The commitment deadline for the event was Tuesday.
Danielle Kang and Lexi Thompson, two of the four American players headed to Tokyo for the Summer Olympics, are skipping the Evian as is Japan’s Nasa Hataoka. Stacy Lewis, who skipped the Evian in 2017 in protest for the time of year the event was held (September), is also not competing.
Kang is defending her title at this week’s Marathon Classic while Thompson is in London this week competing in the LET’s Aramco Team Series. Thompson will team up with Hataoka next week in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational while Kang will be paired with Lydia Ko.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda and her sister Jessica (No. 13) are both in the Evian field as is 2019 champion Jin Young Ko, who won last week at the Volunteers of America Classic in Texas.
Last year’s Evian was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, Amundi was announced as title sponsor of the event.
Two major championships and the Olympic Games are being staged within the span of a month on the LPGA. There’s a two-week break after the AIG Women’s British Open at Carnoustie before the Solheim Cup is staged Sept. 4-6 at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Both Hannah Green and Shanshan Feng let it be known several weeks ago that they’d been shutting it down until the Olympics after the KPMG Women’s PGA. Green wanted to go back to Australia to visit friends and family, knowing that she didn’t want to go the entire year without returning home. She had to hotel quarantine in Sydney for two weeks before heading to Perth.
Feng, who also had to quarantine, wanted to prepare for the Olympics at home in China and travel with the national team to Tokyo.
Five top-20 players are skipping Evian.
There are four spots left open, including two for winners of this week’s Marathon Classic and the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.
2021 Amundi Evian field list:
Marina Alex
Brittany Altomare
Pajaree Anannarukarn
Pia Babnik
Ana Belac
Carly Booth
Amy Boulden
Celine Boutier
Ashleigh Buhai
Matilda Castren
Jennifer Chang
Chella Choi
In Gee Chun
Carlota Ciganda
Cydney Clanton
Jenny Coleman
Olivia Cowan
Paula Creamer
Perrine Delacour
Lindy Duncan
Austin Ernst
Ally Ewing
Dana Finkelstein
Ayaka Furue
Jaye Marie Green
Natalie Gulbis
Georgia Hall
Mina Harigae
Leonie Harm
Brooke M. Henderson
Esther Henseleit
Celine Herbin
Alice Hewson
Daniela Holmqvist
Wei-Ling Hsu
Charley Hull
Mi Jung Hur
Eun Hee Ji
Ariya Jutanugarn
Moriya Jutanugarn
Tsubasa Kajitani (a)
Haeji Kang
Sarah Kemp
Megan Khang
Sei Young Kim
Hyo Joo Kim
A Lim Kim
In Kyung Kim
Christina Kim
Katherine Kirk
Cheyenne Knight
Jin Young Ko
Lydia Ko
Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Nelly Korda
Jessica Korda
Aline Krauter (a)
Jennifer Kupcho
Stephanie Kyriacou
Brittany Lang
Nicole Broch Larsen
Bronte Law
Minjee Lee
Mirim Lee
Min Lee
Alison Lee
Mi Hyang Lee
Jeongeun Lee6
Brittany Lincicome
Pernilla Lindberg
Yu Liu
Gaby Lopez
Leona Maguire
Caroline Masson
Wichanee Meechai
Morgane Metraux
Giulia Molinaro
Azahara Munoz
Yealimi Noh
Anna Nordqvist
Sanna Nuutinen
Ryann O’Toole
Su Oh
Amy Olson
Lee-Anne Pace
Inbee Park
Sung Hyun Park
Hee Young Park
Emily Kristine Pedersen
Pornanong Phatlum
Gerina Piller
Sophia Popov
Mel Reid
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (a)
So Yeon Ryu
Madelene Sagstrom
Lizette Salas
Yuka Saso
Sarah Schmelzel
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
Jenny Shin
Natalie Srinivasan
Angela Stanford
Marissa Steen
Lauren Stephenson
Jasmine Suwannapura
Elizabeth Szokol
Emma Talley
Patty Tavatanakit
Atthaya Thitikul
Ayako Uehara
Albane Valenzuela
Anne van Dam
Lindsey Weaver
Christine Wolf
Jing Yan
Amy Yang
Angel Yin
Rose Zhang (a)