Major void: Danielle Kang, Lexi Thompson, Nasa Hataoka among marquee names skipping Evian

Major void: Danielle Kang, Lexi Thompson, Nasa Hataoka among marquee names skipping Evian https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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)

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