Major championships are too important to contrive.
There’s more to creating major-championship tradition than jacking up the purse, renovating a course and draping the winner in her country’s flag after it came flapping from the heavens under a skydiver’s parachute.
It takes Sundays like the one Angela Stanford delivered at Evian this past week.
It was a big day for more than Stanford, who was such a feel-good story, breaking through at 40 to win her first major with her mother at home fighting a second bout with breast cancer.
It was a big day for LPGA commissioner Mike Whan and Evian Championship founder Franck Riboud.