On Sunday 30 July, when the news of Céline Boutier’s victory in Evian arrived, all the French golf clubs celebrated.No ‘home’ golfer had ever won the Amundi Evian Championship since it was established in 1994 (it assumed ‘major’ status in 2013).
The best finish was Marine Monnet’s 4th place in 2001.The last transalpine to win a Major was Patricia Meunier Lebouc in 2003, before her we need to go back to 1967 with Catherine Lacoste.But never any in Evian.
Celine Boutier, statements
L’Equipe, the leading sports daily across the Alps, dedicated the entire cover to her the following day as well as various pages of interviews and interventions focused on her: coaches, teammates, federal managers, old glories of French golf.A real special issue dedicated to her and to women’s golf.Céline Boutier, in all these celebrations and celebrations, kept repeating that winning at Evian was her dream of her life, since she was a child, and she still couldn’t believe it.“How will your life change now?” asks a reporter.“My life will not change.
I live in the United States where no one knows me, everything will be as before. Next week I will play the Scottish Open in relaxation, I want to have fun”. None of us ‘old’ thought of her this weekend, engaged in our usual competitions.
It was the young Aurélie who gave us the news.Céline Boutier also won in Scotland! Incredible, after a week from the Amundi Evian Championship, Boutier also won the FREED GROUP Women’s Scottish Open by Trust Golf, keeping up with the Korean Hyo-Joo Kim (who finished the final round with an excellent 65 despite a small injury to leg) and the Chinese Ruoning Yin.
Sweden’s Maja Stark didn’t even need to make a hole-in-one, ending up tied for fourth place with Korea’s A Lim Kim.These are her statements: “She is completely crazy! I never imagined that I could win not one, but two tournaments in a row, and yes, I’m completely in shock.
I don’t think I know what to say or what to think. It’s all out of control.”She is sincere, just see the video of the award ceremony, her incredulous and a little lost look.Next week there will be the AIG Women’s Open in Walton Heath: will Céline Boutier make it three of a kind?“I think if I win, I might as well retire,” Boutier joked.I really hope so, that is, no… in short… Girls Power!
