2015 Evian Championship Rookie Watch List

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Alison Lee started her rookie year on the LPGA Tour thinking it would be a splendid thing to qualify for the United States Solheim Cup team. Eighteen starts later she’d done it, playing her way past veterans like Paula Creamer and Brittany Lang to earn her spot on Team USA.

Lee will be playing the Evian Championship as the 27th ranked player in the world and alongside all her Solheim Cup teammates. She still on the hunt for her first pro victory.

Still, she’s gotten some good experience this year managing the high intensity of major competitions. She finished the ANA Inspiration T35, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship T62 and the US Women’s Open T26. Although she missed the cut at the Women’s British Open, she’s finished her two most recent events inside the top-10. She’s coming into the Evian with a hot game and fueled by a great deal of self confidence.

Lee has an average drive and a little bit better than average accuracy and she has a killer short game. Coupled with her fiercely competitive determination, Lee will give the Evian-les-Bains track everything she’s carrying in her bag. Will it be enough?

Of course, we won’t know until we see what happens on Thursday, but I will say that there were probably very few people who gave rookie Paula Creamer much of a chance of winning the Evian Masters when she teed it up in 2005 and then proceeded to outplay Lorena Ochoa and Michelle Wie. Creamer won that year by eight strokes, the largest margin of victory in Evian history.

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