Nelly Korda guidelines girls’s golf with an iron fist

Kelly Korda continues to set astonishing information. The youngest of the sisters within the nice sports activities saga, with 274 strokes, secured her sixth event victory of the season in her final seven occasions performed by profitable the Mizuho Americas Open on the Liberty Nationwide Golf Membership in New Jersey.

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The undisputed world primary edged out Australian Hannah Inexperienced by one stroke, after Inexperienced bogeyed the ultimate gap, to realize one thing that solely 4 gamers have achieved in historical past: six victories within the calendar earlier than June 1st, as beforehand achieved by Lorena Ochoa (2008), Babe Zaharias (1951), and Louise Suggs (1953).

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With almost half the season nonetheless forward, Korda’s fast purpose is to match the seven victories achieved by gamers akin to Zaharias, Karrie Webb in 2000, and Taiwanese Yani Tseng in 2011. Absolutely the report within the LPGA belongs to Mickey Wright with 13 victories in 1968.

In the meantime, Carlota Ciganda completed thirty-ninth, 11 strokes behind the winner. Nelly Korda, born July 28, 1998 in Bradenton (United States), is an American skilled golfer. Daughter of the Czech couple Petr Korda-Regina Kordová, Nelly Korda was born and raised in the US and, like her sister Jessica Korda, took up golf from a really younger age.

A precocious expertise, she grew to become the most effective amateurs and determined to show skilled in 2016 at eighteen. In 2017, on the power of her season on the Symetra minor circuit, she obtained her LPGA circuit membership card in 2017.

Between 2018 and 2020, she achieved her first successes on the LPGA circuit and the Women European Tour (LET) with the profitable of the Taiwan Championship, French Open and Australian Open. In summer time 2021, she achieved her two biggest successes by profitable the foremost event of the LPGA Championship then grew to become Olympic champion in Tokyo, thus occupying first place on the planet within the Girls’s World Golf Rankings.

She provides the profitable of a brand new main event in 2024 by profitable the Chevron Championship. Since then, she has a complete of eighteen skilled victories, has not left the world high 10 between 2019 and right now, and has taken half in three editions of the Solheim Cup in 2019, 2021 and 2023 with the US .