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Play scrapped at rain-hit women's major, will start Friday

Mark Konezny / USA TODAY Sports

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France - Rain and strong winds have forced the final women's golf major of the season to be suspended with plans to re-start on Friday as a 54-hole event.

LPGA Tour Commissioner Michael Whan says the little play achieved Thursday at the Evian Championship will be scrapped.

Whan announced the abandonment at 2:30 p.m. (12:30 GMT) after a four-hour suspension. He says ''some people will definitely not like it but I will take the brunt of that.''

No player had completed nine holes when play stopped on the wind-swept course overlooking Lake Geneva.

At the time, top-ranked So Yeon Ryu of South Korea and Jessica Korda were leading at 2 under.

Whan says re-starting Friday is the ''cleanest, fairest, most competitive'' option.

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