Lots of movement in the Evian Master Golf Course, actually in all the city! This little and picturesque town goes nuts when the LPGA comes to visit. Banners and flags with the tourneys logo line up all over the place.
The ideal thing is to catch a flight to Geneva, Switzerland, there you can take a taxi or ferry all the way to Évian-les-Bains; others prefer to fly to Paris, where they take a train to Geneva, Either way, press members, players and caddies are transported by the organizers, both from the airport and the train station all the way to their hotels. There's a lot of place to stay and for all budgets.
If you go to Evian from Geneva by car you should be there in an hour, tops. When you cross the frontier you won't see any kind of officials or checkpoints, you just go through as you owned the place, although there's a tool booth1(.70 euros / 2.41 dollars)
You won't get any sign directions on the road to get to Évian until you're actually 10 minutes away (lots of posters and banners will lead you there). In downtown expect to see all kind of goodies of the tournament, decorating the shop windows, as well as the hotel and restaurant entrances.
Lots of vans, or courtesy cars as they call them officially, around the place, and as I said earlier, they transport media members, players and caddies, this time, from their hotels to the course and vice-versa.
Now, as for the players, they are all here people so there's a lot of activity for being a Tuesday; some of them have been since Sunday! It's been raining a lot, not hard but constantly, nevertheless, players suck it up and keep it going, like Yani Tseng, who's here with her mother. Speaking of Yani, she's very relaxed and is hitting the ball pretty solid
Another gal who brought mom and dad with her is.... yes, you guessed correctly: Michelle Wie. Whom I saw at the putting green and let me tell you people, she wasn't sinking much, but she said "the course is in great shape, regardless of the soggy conditions".
Alison Nicholas is also here and she's watching the Euros pretty closely, and how wouldn't she? The Solheim Cup is around the corner (September 23- 25).
It seems like tomorrow's weather conditions should improve, it hasn't stop raining since early in the morning and it's chilly. Anyways, we have to wait and see if rain becomes a factor, meanwhile, expect quite a show!
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