The Top 15 Players to Watch at the 2025 Evian Championship, Ranked.

There are two things about this season on the LPGA Tour that I find unbelievable right now. The first being that this is the fourth major—I mean seriously, where has this year rushed off to? And the second, there has been 17 consecutive tournaments with different winners on tour this year, and no one has won more than once.

This year has brought out another side of women's professional golf that feels so...diverse. We're coming off the heels of seeing a dominant Nelly Korda who won seven times in 2024, but has yet to win in 2025.

The parity of talent across this tour is kind of refreshing.

Predictability can be fun, but not knowing who's going to win week end and week out has been extremely entertaining, and makes for these player watch lists to be even more challenging. I have no idea who's going to win, and I love it.

The Evian Championship, hosted in Évian-les-Bains, France is one of my favorite weeks of the year. It's a stunning golf course situated in the French Alps. It's tight, it demands that players play strategically, and I'd like to think that the cuisine is some of the best on Tour (I put out a few feelers this week from players so stay tuned for confirmation).

It's the event that kicks off the LPGA's Euro Summer which means we're in for yet another insanely stacked major championship field, that includes a handful of familiar amateurs, a former am making her pro debut, and past champions hoping to play themselves into glory once more. Here are the top 15 players we're watching this week.

15. Mirabel Ting

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Rolex Rankings: N/A; Evian starts: 0; 2024 finish: N/A

Bienvenue, to the big leagues Mirabel! The Florida State standout announced last week that she's stepping away from her collegiate career and into her professional one—debuting at the 2025 Evian Championship. As one of the best ball strikers FSU head coach Amy Bond has ever seen, Ting will be one to watch this week!

14. Lottie Woad (a)

Rolex Rankings: 143; Evian starts: 1; 2024 finish: MC

Another FSU star who just won big in Ireland last week—Lottie Woad is another one I can't wait to follow at Evian. It's rare that the best player in the world plays second on her college team, but Woad has definitely earned her stripes. With a top-25 finish this week, she could secure her final two LEAP points and earn her LPGA status.

13. Auston Kim

Rolex Rankings: 46; Evian starts: 1; 2024 finish: MC

Coming off of her best major championship finish at KPMG, Auston Kim has been a player I've been following all season long. Her game is strong—she's one of the longest on the Tour, her short game coach is the legendary Joe Mayo, and finish at PGA Frisco felt like it's what she needed to get even closer to her maiden LPGA win.

RELATED: Player's Journal: Auston Kim

12. Charley Hull

Rolex Rankings: 19; Evian starts: 11; 2024 finish: MC

The Brit has flirted with being in contention a few times this season but ultimately has been relatively quiet in 2025. She had a top-five finish at the KPMG Women's Irish Open ahead of Evian so I like her odds heading into the major.

11. Haeran Ryu

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Rolex Rankings: 5; Evian starts: 3; 2024 finish: 5th

The 2023 Rookie of the Year has been piecing together an incredible 2025 season. She's 11/13 on cuts made, with two top-10s including one win at the Black Desert Championship in Utah. She finished T-6 in the season’s first major, the Chevron Championship, and has since made the cut at the other two majors. I like her odds at Evian, especially given that last year, the 24-year-old finished fifth.

10. Mao Saigo

Rolex Rankings: 9; Evian starts: 3; 2024 finish: T-35

Despite missing the cut at KPMG, the 23-year-old Japanese player is still one of my picks to be in the mix this week. She's proven that she's solid and can hold her own in the big moments...it doesn't get any bigger than a five player playoff in a major. And if you're superstitious, the last time she missed a cut, she won three weeks later. It's been three weeks since KPMG, just saying.

9. Angel Yin

Rolex Rankings: 7; Evian starts: 7; 2024 finish: MC

Though she's had a bit of a rough track record at Evian, with her best finish only being T-20 in 2023, I'm holding out hope that Angel Yin gets her maiden major, and soon. She's one of 18 players to have entered the winner's circle this season, can she be the first to be a repeat winner? The odds may be in her favor, as she's found herself in contention at every major so far. (T-6 in Women’s PGA, T-9 in U.S. Women’s Open and 13th in Chevron.)

8. Brooke Henderson

Rolex Rankings: 45; Evian starts: 9; 2024 finish: T-26

It's been a slow year for Henderson, not having a single top-10 in a stroke play event in 2025, but if she can find some magic in her game it's certainly at Evian. It's a place she knows well, never missing a cut, winning it in 2022 and finishing second in 2023—two of her four top-10s here.

7. Jeeno Thitikul

Rolex Rankings: 2; Evian starts: 5; 2024 finish: MC

Another player I desperately want to win a major is Jeeno Thitikul. She reminds me of Ludvig Åberg—has plenty of talent and skill, is young and charismatic, but that first major win remains elusive. I thought she'd come close at KPMG, her putter was hot, but the Texas heat and Fields Ranch East got the best of her. She's been on a heater for much of the season, and hopefully that same energy traveled to France.

6. Celine Boutier

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Rolex Rankings: 17; Evian starts: 8; 2024 finish: T-39

The hometown hero! Boutier was crowned the 2023 Evian Champion, becoming the first French player to win the title, so this week will be a special one for her. Can she re-spark some of that magic from her storybook finish two season ago? In this game, anything is possible. And Boutier has been playing well in 2025—don't count her out.

5. Nelly Korda

Rolex Rankings: 1; Evian starts: 7; 2024 finish: T-26

The world No. 1 is still in search of her first win this season and as weird as that sentence is to type and read out loud, Korda's never really out of it. Her best Evian finish came in 2022, she was T-8, but Korda's game has matured so much since then. After seeing her grind over the first three majors, she's never really out of it. How she starts will matter, but if she's in contention after round one, watch out.

4. Ruoning Yin

Rolex Rankings: 4; Evian starts: 1; 2024 finish: N/A (didn't play)

With such a young and inexperienced history with Evian, I think Ruoning Yin will have some fun this week. She's playing some of the best golf of her career, going 11/11 on cuts made—and I think she's on par to making it 12/12. She's showed up extremely well at the majors this season, with two top-three finishes.

3. Minjee Lee

Rolex Rankings: 6; Evian starts: 10; 2024 finish: T-49

All eyes will be on the most recent major champion, who also won Evian in 2021. As a three-time major winner, Lee surely will be playing with an extra kick of confidence. She navigated the tricky conditions of Fields Ranch East, where ball placement ruled everything—the course layout of Evian Resort Golf Club will demand similar levels o f shot placement and accuracy.

2. Ayaka Furue

Rolex Rankings: 16; Evian starts: 4; 2024 finish: Champion

The 2024 Champion is back to defend her title, and I wouldn't be surprised if she did just that—her win last year was rather unexpected, making an eagle on the 72nd hold to win by one (19-under) over Stephanie Kyriacou—who's to say that more magic can't happen? Though she's missed the last two cuts at KPMG and the USWO, Furue has good history at Evian. She has never finished outside the top-40.

1. Lydia Ko

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Rolex Rankings: 3; Evian starts: 11; 2024 finish: T-39

This tournament is what made me a Lydia Ko fan. At just 18 years old, Ko became a major winner—and the rest is kind of history. A decade later, she returns to the place where it all started with two more majors in tow, along with a couple of Olympic medals, and 22 more LPGA titles. She loves Evian, stacking up seven top-10s and the one win in 11 starts—bravo!