The latest LPGA major champion Amy Yang will lead the Korean contingent at the fourth major tournament of the season, teeing off in the French Alps this week.

Yang will be one of 18 Korean players at the Amundi Evian Championship, which will begin Thursday at Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-les-Bains, France.

Yang won the third major of the season, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, on June 23. She became the first Korean winner on the LPGA Tour this year and the country’s first LPGA major champion in two years.

Following her maiden major title, Yang jumped 20 spots in the world rankings to reach her season-high No. 5 and qualified for this year’s Paris Olympics in the process.

Two fellow Olympians for Korea, world No. 3 Ko Jin-young and No. 13 Kim Hyo-joo, have both won the Evian 추천 Championship before — Ko in 2019 and Kim in 2014.

Ko will be chasing her first LPGA win since May last year. Kim won a Ladies European Tour (LET) event held in Korea in May, but she has not won an LPGA event since October 2023.

These LPGA veterans will be playing alongside KLPGA stars, including a pair of three-time winners this season in Lee Ye-won and Park Ji-young.

Lee and Park are second and third on the KLPGA money list, respectively, and second and fourth in the KLPGA Player of the Year points standings.