The largest crowds that ever attended the Evian Championship since it was inaugurated in the early 1990s cheered on Celine Boutier to her first major championship win, won on home soil. She was greeted on the 18th green by fellow players and drowned in champagne.

“This has been my dream, and this week felt different. It helped having my family here but away from the tournament to get some normality and take my mind off the tournament. I

On the course I had to trick my mind into thinking that I was playing somewhere else” she said such was the importance of a home soil win.

The native of Clamarat, France was the outstanding player of the week in most categories and she stormed to a six-stroke victory over Brooke Henderson.

In really challenging 25 mph winds she birdied three of the first five holes and only dropped one shot. She said that she played steady and calmly all week. It was an impressive, clinical display that brought out huge support from the fans and the media.

Evian les Bains is the golf course for the Paris Olympic Games next year, an event that Celine will be relishing. She is also looking forward to the Solheim Cup which starts on 22 September, but for now this win caps all of that.

“I’m good for the rest of the year. Nothing else matters”

In a separate incident Carlotta Ciganda was disqualified because she refused to add a 2 shot penalty to her score which was given to her by a referee for slow play on her final hole on Friday. If she hadn’t have been penalised she would have made the cut by one stroke.

Ciganda wrote a lengthy statement on her Instagram account giving her side of the story.

She criticised the tournament officials for their “very poor performance, saying that they don’t understand what professional golf is all about”.

She had a 10 foot putt on the last hole, and the group behind were not on the tee. The office; said that she had taken 52 seconds over the putt. The day was tough with windy conditions and difficult conditions”.

The LPGA Tour responded that Ciganda’s appeal had been heard and denied, therefore a two-shot penalty was added and she opted not to add that to her signed scorecard.

Ciganda has been penalised for slow play in the past but has criticised tournament officials for always picking on the same players.