The LPGA Tour seriously must have oddsmakers scratching their collective heads when it comes to figuring out the best odds to win events.
There have been 17 consecutive tournaments with different winners on tour this year, which is the longest stretch to start a season in the LPGA’s 75-year history. There are 18 different champions total, including most recently Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im, who won the team event in the Dow Championship.
It’s truly hard to believe no one has won multiple times, and it’s even more difficult to fathom that World No. 1 Nelly Korda has yet to win this season after gathering seven victories last year. Maybe just not betting on who already has won this year is the best choice of all.
So many things factor into winning a major and even more come into play as women’s golf returns to Europe this month. July offers an awesome stretch that includes two majors—this week’s Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Club in southeastern France and the AIG Women’s British Open (July 31-Aug. 3) at Royal Porthcawl in Wales. Sandwiched between them is the Women’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Links.
Travel, time change, sleep, practice, food and weather are a few factors that will go into winning the major this week near the Lake Geneva shores.
The only predictable thing is that you can’t predict who will be the center of attention at post-round championship ceremonies. But, we’ll try our best. Here’s our look at 20 players we think can get the job done.
Rolex Rankings: 34; Evian starts: 8; Best finish: T-8, 2019; ’24 finish: MC
Khang, 27, has three top-10s this year and if she’d made a short putt on the first playoff hole at the Dow Championship—where she teamed up with Lexi Thompson—she could have her second career win. With two top-10s at Evian and 10 career top-10s in majors, the Massachusetts native surely is looking to avenge the Dow close call.
Rolex Rankings: 5; Evian starts: 3; Best finish: 5th, 2024; ’24 finish: 5th
Ryu finished T-6 in the season’s first major, the Chevron Championship, and won the Black Desert the next week. She has made the cut at all three majors in 2025. Last year, the 24-year-old South Korean finished fifth at Evian. She has five career top-10s in majors.
Rolex Rankings: 14; Evian starts: 4; Best finish: 4th, 2024; ’24 finish: 4th
The only time Coughlin made the cut in the Evian was during last year’s breakthrough season, and she was in contention to win. She won twice in ’24 and nearly won again in April, making the T-Mobile Match Play final before losing to Madelene Sagstrom. Coughlin has three top-10s in 2025, but has missed the cut in the last two majors.
Rolex Rankings: 113; Evian starts: 7; Best finish: T-6, 2021; ’24 finish: T-17
The Englishwoman has Evian Resort figured out with three top-10s there while never missing the cut. Hall plays particularly well in majors in Europe and, of course, in the Solheim Cup. She’s been inconsistent on the LPGA this season, missing six cuts, but this would seem to be a week to shine.
Rolex Rankings: 40; Evian starts: 5; Best finish: T-2, 2019; ’24 finish: T-22
In only the eighth event of her professional career, Kupcho secured her LPGA status for the 2020 season with a runner-up finish in the Evian behind Jin Young Ko. Since then, she has never missed a cut in France. The 28-year-old American halted a three-year victory drought by capturing the ShopRite Classic in June and was T-23 at the KPMG Women’s PGA after missing the cut in the first two majors. Kupcho’s game is peaking at the right time, considering she didn’t know where her ball was going at Chevron.
Rolex Rankings: 15; Evian starts: 8; Best finish: Won, 2019; ’24 finish: T-35
The 15-time LPGA winner has two major titles, including her 2019 Evian win, and she’s never missed the cut here. Ko’s play this season has been very inconsistent, with four top-10 finishes, including a runner-up in the Founders Cup, to go with missing the cut at the last two events and withdrawing from the Women’s PGA citing illness.
Rolex Rankings: 44; Evian starts: 9; Best finish: Won, 2022; ’24 finish: T-26
Evian Resort Golf Club is Henderson’s happy place, and she will hope it works more magic in a season that’s seen her struggle to contend anywhere. She won Evian in 2022 and finished second in 2023—two of her four top-10s here. She’s never missed the cut, either. The Canadian has 16 career top-10s in majors and has won 13 times on tour, but not since 2023. This year, the 27-year-old doesn’t have a top-10 finish in a stroke-play tournament and her best major result is T-36 in the Women’s PGA.
Rolex Rankings: 19; Evian starts: 11; Best finish: T-3, 2022; ’24 finish: MC
The 29-year-old Englishwoman took her best shots thus far to win majors when finishing runner-up in both the U.S. Women’s Open and AIG British Women’s Open in 2023. Since then her best finishes have come this year, T-12s in both the Women’s PGA and the U.S. Women’s Open. Hull, who has only one top-10 in the Evian, remains stuck on two LPGA wins (the last in 2022), with four on the LET.
Rolex Rankings: 23; Evian starts: 10; Best finish: T-3, 2022; ’24 finish: MC
Ciganda has plenty of momentum with her recent win at the Meijer LPGA Classic, her first victory in nearly nine years. The Spaniard has five top-10s this year, including in the Chevron (T-9). The ensuing majors have not been good, with her only missed cut of the season coming in the U.S. Women’s Open, followed by T-71 in the Women’s PGA. She has a pair of top-10s in Evian.
Rolex Rankings: 17; Evian starts: 8; Best finish: Won, 2023; ’24 Finish: T-39
Boutier won at Evian in her home country in 2023 for a storybook victory, and it’s still her only major win. The 31-year-old is playing well this season, with four top-10s, including a second in the Mizuho Americas Open. She’s missed the cut at two of the three majors.
Rolex Rankings: 7; Evian starts: 7; Best finish: T-20, 2023; ’24 finish: MC
Yin always seems to be having fun playing golf, and she has five top-10s this year to show for it, including a win in the Honda LPGA Thailand. The American is still looking for her first major title while having contended in every major this year: T-6 in Women’s PGA, T-9 in U.S. Women’s Open and 13th in Chevron.
Rolex Rankings: 4; Evian starts: 1; Best finish: MC, 2023; ’24 finish: Did not play
Yin has been impressively consistent this year, making all 10 cuts while notching three top-10s. She’s played well in all the majors, too, finishing second in Chevron, fourth in the U.S. Women’s Open and T-23 in Women’s PGA. She has five top-10s in 14 starts in majors, and after winning the 2023 Women’s PGA she’s looking to earn that second major. She’s only played this event once, missing the cut, and didn’t compete last year.
Rolex Rankings: 8; Evian starts: 3; Best finish: T-39, 2024; ’24 finish: T-39
The Swede, who has two top-10s this season, won the U.S. Women’s Open in June and will forever have the memory of playing with the 54-hole lead and never relinquishing it. The Fields Ranch East greens in the Women’s PGA had her so frustrated that she threw her putter toward her bag and it broke, so she ended her final round putting with a pitching wedge over the last three holes. She finished with a 78 for T-47.
Rolex Rankings: 10; Evian starts: 3; Best finish: T-3, 2022; ’24 finish: T-35
Saigo made it out of a five-woman playoff in the Chevron to have her first LPGA win be a major. Since then, she finished T-4 at the U.S. Women’s Open but missed the cut at the Women’s PGA. She has five top-10s this season, proving the 23-year-old Japanese star is one of the best in the world week in and week out.
Rolex Rankings: 1; Evian starts: 7; Best finish: T-8, 2022; ’24 finish: T-26
It’s July and Korda is still searching for her first win of the season. She’s still got that No. 1 world ranking because she’s playing well, with four top-10s and a runner-up in the season-opening Tournament of Champions. Korda has finished in the top 25 in all three majors this year, including T-2 in a two-shot loss to Maja Stark in the the U.S. Women’s Open. She notched two straight top-10s in the Evian before a T-26 last year. Korda is looking to join Minjee Lee as the newest three-time major winner.
Rolex Rankings: 16; Evian starts: 4; Best finish: Won, 2024; ’24 finish: Won
Furue has three top-10s this season but missed the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open and Women’s PGA. She is the defending champion here at Evian and who could forget how she won? She made an eagle on the 72nd hole to prevail by a shot. Furue finished fourth in Evian in 2021 and has never finished worse than T-36. She has five top-10s in 21 starts in majors.
Rolex Rankings: 2; Evian starts: 5; Best finish: 5, 2021; ’24 finish: MC
Thitikul has played well in France, with top-10s in three consecutive years from 2021-2023. The Thai also won the Mizuho Americas Open this season. She has eight top-10s in majors but is still looking to close one out. She’s seemingly always right there with 48 career top-10s at just 22 years old.
Rolex Rankings: 9; Evian starts: 10; Best finish: Won, 2014; ’24 finish: T-12
Kim, coming off competing in last week’s KLPGA Lotte Open, has played really well in France for a decade. She won in 2014 for her lone major victory and finished T-2 in 2019 and T-3 in 2022. She has four top-10s this year and a win at the Ford Championship. She was T-2 after being part of the Chevron five-woman playoff, missed the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open and withdrew from the Women’s PGA.
Rolex Rankings: 6; Evian starts: 10; Best finish: Won, 2021; ’24 Finish: T-49
Lee is a three-time major winner now, having just captured the Women’s PGA, and trust us, it was gutsy. She had a four-shot lead after 54 holes and never lost it. With wins in three different majors over the last five years, Lee will go for the career Grand Slam at the Women’s British Open this month. She has 12 career top-10s in majors.
Rolex Rankings: 3; Evian starts: 11; Best finish: Won, 2015; ’24 finish: T-39
Ko has seven top-10s and one win at Evian in 11 starts—C’est magnifique! Her win here came in 2015, and she finished T-3 in 2022. Ko has one win this year at the HSBC Women’s World Championship among her three top-10s and her best finish in a major is T-12 at the Women’s PGA. She’ll have to wait until next year to continue working on the career Grand Slam, but another win at Evian would be swell for the Hall of Famer.
