The LPGA has an interesting scenario the next two weeks.
Back-to-back major championships.
One is legit, the other is, well, pretty questionable.
And that question is basically — how can you have a major championship that is only seven years old?
The answer?
It was bought and paid for.
The ladies are at Evian-les-Bains this week, a spiffy French resort that is up to its nose in Francs and all that French currency carried enough weight to get the money-needy LPGA Tour to declare this a major championship seven years ago.
After the Evian is finished, the ladies will head to Scotland and wonderful North Berwick where the Women’s British Open will be held at the Renaissance Club, the recent site of the European Tour’s Scottish Open.
There was also some interesting news at last week’s Open Championship. Martin Slumbers, head honcho of the Royal & Ancient, announced that after this year, the R&A will take over the staging of the Women’s British Open. Upon that news, one clever European scribe quickly asked Slumbers if the name will be changed to “The Ladies Open Championship.” Slumbers didn’t say a word, he just gave a sly grin.
So that remains to be seen.
At any rate, the Evian is up, the fourth major this season followed by the British.
For the record, the Women’s British is 43-years-old.
And that seemed pretty youthful by major standards. Until, that is, Evian threw a giant bag of money on the table.
