Inbee Park
Serena Williams isn’t the only woman in sight of a Grand Slam this weekend.
Inbee Park can achieve a career Grand Slam in golf by winning the Evian Championship starting on today near the French Alps.
Park won the Evian on the edge of Lake Geneva in 2012, but it came a year before the U.S. LPGA Tour made it the fifth and final major on its calendar.
To mark the occasion, the tour has gone into hyperbole. When Park won the Women’s British Open last month, becoming the seventh woman to win four different majors, the tour called that the “career Grand Slam.” Adding the Evian will give her a “Super Career Grand Slam.”
Regardless of how it’s described, Park says it’s already been a great year.
Such has been her dominant form that she has already wrapped up the Rolex Annika Major Award, which rewards the player with the best record in the five majors. Even if she misses the Evian cut, she has an unassailable lead in the standings and will succeed Michelle Wie, who won the inaugural award last year.
Park has won six of the last 14 majors. She has seven to her name, and two this year. And her appetite for them hasn’t dimmed.
“I’ve got my name on every major championship trophy, but I won Evian before it became a major,” the South Korean said. “So it would be really good to win it again this year.”
The other major winners this year were Brittany Lincicome and In Gee Chun.
Still with a shot at becoming the youngest major winner is 18-year-old Lydia Ko of New Zealand.
The No. 2-ranked Ko, who tied for third at the British Open, had her confidence boosted by victory at the Canadian Pacific Open, where she claimed her third title of the year. AP
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