French asset management company Amundi has signed a five-year agreement to become the title sponsor of The Evian Championship.
The tournament, which is one of the five women’s major championships, is to renamed The Amundi Evian Championship, with the first event under the new sponsorship due to be held at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France from July 22-25.
As part of the deal, the prize money for this year’s championship has been increased by $400,000 to $4.5m and the field increased from 120 players to 126.
“Our partnership with Amundi strengthens our global ambitions,” said Franck Riboud, chairman of The Evian Championship. “We launched the Evian Masters in 1994 and in 2013 the tournament was renamed The Evian Championship upon becoming one of the major championships in women’s golf. Today, the fact that Amundi joins us, in such unusual times, once again reaffirms the tournament’s appeal.”
