LPGA commissioner Mike Whan’s recent decision - the second time in five years - to cut the LPGA Tour’s final ‘Major,’ the Evian Championship in France to 54 holes due to a near wash-out of the first day was a rare error of judgment
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Written by Mike Wilson
Photography by Courtesy of Evian Championship
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