When Ai Miyazato of Japan makes the last start of her L.P.G.A. career at this week’s Evian Championship, she admits it could be “a little emotional.”
This was, after all, where she won her first tournament as a member of the tour in 2009 . And the Evian Resort Golf Club — host of the L.P.G.A.’s fifth and final major championship — was where Miyazato won again in 2011, five months after an earthquake and tsunami had devastated her homeland.
But this year’s appearance in Evian-les-Bains, France, is the last one for the player beloved by her Japanese fans and by her L.