The top 25 players competing at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship, ranked

While the men's major calendar is over with Brian Harman's victory at the Open Championship, the LPGA Tour's European major swing is just starting. The Amundi Evian Championship begins on Thursday in France followed in two weeks by the AIG Women's Open at England’s Walton Heath.

Despite being the “newest” women’s major, the Evian consistently delivers a top-tiered player as its champion since given its new status in 2013. Eight of its nine winners have been in the top 20 of the Rolex Women's World Rankings. (Angela Stanford was the lone outlier in 2018 when she was ranked 76th.) The average ranking of the champions is 16th.

Whether that trend holds this year is up for debate as numerous top players appear a bit out of form. World No. 1 Jin Young Ko shocked everyone with a 79 to begin the U.S. Women's Open, en route to a missed cut. No. 2 Nelly Korda, coming off a win on the LET's Aramco London Series, has made one cut over her previous three LPGA starts. No. 3 Lydia Ko hasn’t finished inside the top 30 on tour since her T-6 in February at the Honda LPGA Thailand. Nos. 4, 5, and 6 are this year's three first-time major winners (Lilia Vu, Allisen Corpuz and Ruoning Yin). And defending champion Brooke Henderson, No. 11 in the world rankings, returns following back-to-back missed cuts at the Dana Open and the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.

Ahead of this week’s stop at Evian Resort Golf Club, we dove through the 132-player field and ranked the 25 most likely to win come Sunday.

25: Min Ji Park

Rolex Ranking: 26 Starts: 1 Best Finish: T-37, 2022
Park won twice last month on the KLPGA Tour and has been one of the top players on the South Korean circuit over the last three seasons. She's only made two starts in LPGA majors, the latest a T-13 finish at in the U.S. Women’s open at Pebble Beach.

24: Lydia Ko

Rolex Ranking: 3 Starts: 9 Best Finish: Win, 2015
Maybe Ko's success at Evian Resort Golf Club will help offset a disappointing 2023 season to date, marked by the astounding seven penalty strokes she had to take in the final round of the Dana Open, her last start. Ko has seven top-10s in her career in this event, including a T-3 a year ago.

23: Anna Nordqvist

Rolex Ranking: 33 Starts: 13 Best Finish: Win, 2017
The three-time major winne’s missed cut at Pebble Beach was a surprise after a sturdy run of midsummer play that included five top-20s in six starts, highlighted by a T-3 at the KPMG Women's PGA.

22: Celine Boutier

Rolex Ranking: 13 Starts: 6 Best Finish: T-29, 2014, 2021
A winner at this year’s LPGA Drive On, Boutier is coming off a T-3 performance at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, her fourth top-10 in 2023. She’s looking to become the first Frenchwoman to win the Evian.

21: Grace Kim

Rolex Ranking: 55 Starts: First appearance
Kim's first career LPGA win in April was followed by two missed cuts, but the rookie has posted five top-20 finishes in her last six starts, including 14th at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and T-13 at the U.S. Women's Open.

20: Atthaya Thitikul

Rolex Ranking: 9 Starts: 3 Best Finish: 5, 2021
Despite missing back-to-back cuts at the last two majors, Thitikul remains tied for the most top-10s this season on the LPGA Tour (seven). The Thai star's consistency so far in her young career includes top-10s in her last two starts at Evian.

19: Nasa Hataoka

Rolex Ranking: 19 Starts: 3 Best Finish: T-15, 2022
The Japanese stalwart was the 54-hole leader at Pebble Beach but surprisingly faded down the stretch. Still, her T-4 was her sixth top-seven major finish in her last 16 starts dating back to the 2020 Chevron Championship.

18: Hae Ran Ryu

Rolex Ranking: 32 Starts: 1 Best Finish: MC, 2018
Ryu's rookie LPGA season has been a bit feast or famine. She's got 10 top-20 finishes, two missed cuts, a T-56 and a T-65. Unfortunately, her two worst performances happened at majors, the T-56 at Chevron and an MC at the KPMG Women's PGA. Ryu substantially improved at Pebble Beach, where she finished in eighth.

17: Brooke Henderson

Rolex Ranking: 12 Starts: 7 Best Finish: Win, 2022
Henderson will need to rely on her success at the Evian Resort Golf Course to defend her title rather than recent form. The Canadian has six top-25 finishes in her seven Evian starts, including three top-10s.

16: Cheyenne Knight

Rolex Ranking: 39 Starts: 2 Best Finish: T-19, 2022
Knight flew from Midland, Mich., to France with her second career LPGA title after winning the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. The victory is part of a consistent 2023 campaign, as Knight finished in the top 30 in eight of her last nine starts.

15: Carlota Ciganda

Rolex Ranking: 31 Starts: 10 Best Finish: T-3, 2022
Since losing in the quarterfinals at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play in May, the Spaniard hasn't been outside the top 21 in six starts, including a T-3 at the KPMG Women's PGA. Ciganda is looking for her first LPGA title since 2016.

14: Jiyai Shin

Rolex Ranking: 24 Starts: 7 Best Finish: Win, 2010
Shin's last start at the Evian came in 2013. However, off a three-win year on the JLPGA and a runner-up at the U.S. Women's Open, the former World No. 1 remains in form to take her third major title.

13: Charley Hull

Rolex Ranking: 15 Starts: 9 Best Finish: T-3, 2022
The Englishwoman nearly stole the show at Pebble Beach, closing with a closing 66 for a T-2 finish. In her next start, she was second to Nelly Korda at the LET's Aramco Team Series-London event.

12: Yuka Saso

Rolex Ranking: 27 Starts: 1 Best Finish: MC, 2022
Saso, the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open champ, missed four cuts from March May, only to find her form with a runner-up at the KPMG Women's PGA and a T-3 at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.

11: Jin Young Ko

Rolex Ranking: 1 Starts: 6 Best Finish: Win, 2019
Ko put up a shocking performance at the U.S. Women's Open, with her opening 79, the second-worst round of her LPGA career. The two-time winner in 2023 rebounded with a T-26 at the Dana Open. Despite the poor Pebble Beach performance, Ko remains second in tour scoring average (69.79).

10: Xiyu Lin

Rolex Ranking: 11 Starts: 6 Best Finish: T-29, 2015
The winner’s circle can only evade Lin for so long as she continues posting great finishes. Lin finished in the top five three times over her last four starts, most recently a T-4 at the Dana Open.

9: Rose Zhang

Rolex Ranking: 34 Starts: 2 Best Finish: T-58, 2021
Zhang’s last start was her first missed cut as a pro at the Dana Open, but it’s excused as she was sick and she had three straight top-10s finishes to start her pay-for-play career. Expect a (hopefully) healthy Zhang to continue her consistency atop LPGA leaderboards.

8: Ayaka Furue

Rolex Ranking: 18 Starts: 2 Best Finish: 4th, 2021
Furue is a picture of consistency; the Japanese native hasn't finished outside the top 15 in her last seven starts, dating back to April. With seven top-10s in 2023, at some point this run has to lead to her second career win… right?

7: Ruoning Yin

Rolex Ranking: 5 Starts: First appearance
The KPMG Women's PGA winner missed the first cut of her impressive sophomore LPGA campaign at last week’s Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational last week. We can look past it if you can.

6: Nelly Korda

Rolex Ranking: 2 Starts: 5 Best Finish: T-8, 2022
Korda's victory two weeks ago at the LET's Aramco Team Series in London signals a likely return to form after coming back from a back injury with two missed cuts and a T-64 in her three LPGA starts. She is also trending at the Evian, improving in every start she has made in France—MC, 2017; T-16, 2018; T-25, 2019; T-19, 2021; T-8, 2023.

5: Minjee Lee

Rolex Ranking: 7 Starts: 8 Best Finish: Win, 2021
Lee has to her star form following a rocky start to 2023 where the two-time major winner didn't finish inside the top 40 in her first four starts. Since a runner-up at the Cognizant Foudner's Cup in May, Lee posted six consecutive top-20s, most recently a T-7 at the Dana Open.

4: Leona Maguire

Rolex Ranking: 11 Starts: 3 Best Finish: T-6, 2021
Maguire's standout performances in majors slowed with a T-31 at Pebble, but there's plenty of evidence she'll catch fire again in France. After all, she's tied for the lowest major round ever with the 61 she posted at Evian in the final round of 2021.

3: Allisen Corpuz

Rolex Ranking: 6 Starts: 1 Best Finish: MC
Corpuz enters Evian being the best major player on tour this year. She's got a win at the U.S. Women's Open, a T-4 at the Chevron, and a T-15 at the KPMG Women's PGA. Impressively backed up the victory at Pebble with a runner-up at the Dana Open the following week.

2: Linn Grant

Rolex Ranking: 21 Starts: 1 Best Finish: T-8, 2022
Grant grabbed her anticipated first LPGA title at the Dana Open earlier this month. Given her dominance on the Ladies European Tour, with five wins between 2022 and this year, why wouldn't that major breakthrough be on the European continent?

1: Hyo Joo Kim

Rolex Ranking: 8 Starts: 8 Best Finish: Win, 2014
For a decade Kim has consistently been in contention at the Evian. She finished T-3 last year and held the 54-hole lead in 2019 before ending up T-2. The South Korean leads the LPGA in scoring average (69.62) and in greens in regulation this year, making the 28-year-old South Korean the pick for her second major title.