The Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth Major 2022 of women’s golf, goes to Brooke Mackenzie Henderson who in France signed the feat by passing the American Sophia Schubert in a sprint and with a birdie on the last hole.
In Evian-les-Bains, the Canadian won with a score of 267 (64 64 68 71, -17) shots beating the US photo finish, 2 / a with 268 (-16).
Brooke Mackenzie Henderson, results
On the course of the Evian Resort Golf Club (par 71), Henderson, 24, from Smiths Falls (Ontario), celebrated her twelfth title on the LPGA Tour, her second in a Grand Slam event.
Her exploits allowed her to move from fourth to second position in the Race to CME Globe (the FedEx Cup for women) and to collect $ 1,000,000. The only blue in the race, the young amateur Benedetta Moresco, 130 / a with 152 (76 76, +10), came out instead.
While in eighth position with 271 (-13) were classified, among others, the South Korean Jin Young Ko (world number 1) and the American Nelly Korda, gold medalist at the Tokyo Games and former queen of the green in pink. Brooke Henderson (born September 10, 1997 in Smiths Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian professional golfer playing on the PGA Tour.
She is one of the best players of the 2010s and 2020s, winning prestigious titles such as the two major tournaments, the LPGA Championship in 2016 and the Evian Championship in 2022. Her prestige goes beyond golf since she is three repeatedly named “athlete of the year” with the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award (given by the Canadian press) in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
She won her first major tournament on the LPGA Tour at the age of 18 in 2016 at the LPGA Championship. Three weeks later, she managed to retain her title at the Cambia Portland Open, her third LPGA win. She won a new trophy in June 2017 at the Meijer LPGA Classic.
On August 26, after four days of tournaments, she finally won the Canadian Open, which she had been coveting since 2012, the date of her first participation in this event, as an amateur player. She succeeds, 45 years later, her compatriot Jocelyne Bourassa, winner of the inaugural edition, in 1973.
