NORDQVIST WINS EVIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Anna Nordqvist became the first European player to win a women’s major championship since 2013, after the Swede won a play-off against Brittany Altomare to win the Evian Championship in France.
With matching final rounds of 66, Nordqvist and Altomare came from five strokes behind the overnight leader Moriya Jutanugarn to tie for the lead on nine under par, but it was Nordqvist who triumphed on the par-four 18th. Altomare made a double-bogey, only moments after greens staff had been using s