World primary Nelly Korda insists she is taking nothing with no consideration as she bids to safe a outstanding fifth straight win and second main title within the Chevron Championship.
Korda took a seven-week break after profitable her first title of the yr, the LPGA Drive On Championship, in January, and returned to win three occasions within the area of three weeks, together with beating Eire’s Leona Maguire within the remaining of the T-Cell Match Play.
The 25-year-old is the primary lady to win on 4 consecutive begins since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 and can also be the primary to enter a serious on such a streak since Annika Sorenstam.
NOT TAKING IN FOR GRANTED
Sorenstam’s run got here between the top of the 2004 season and the beginning of 2005 and the Swedish star went on to win the Kraft Nabisco by eight pictures.
“In 2021 I went on a run, after which in 2022 and 2023 golf actually humbled me,” admitted Korda, who received 4 occasions in 2021, together with her sole main title to this point within the Girls’s PGA Championship.
“There are ups and downs. Each athlete goes by way of the rollercoaster, and that’s what makes the game so nice. You mature and develop a lot and be taught extra about your self.
“You by no means take these weeks with no consideration. You at all times attempt to recognize and turn into very grateful for them.
“It makes simply all of the onerous work so price it. However I feel I’ve realized a lot about myself even by way of the losses.”
NOT MUCH REST
Korda has had one week since her final victory to recharge the batteries forward of the primary girls’s main of the season at Carlton Woods in Texas, the place she completed a shot exterior the play-off received by Lilia Vu final yr.
“Final week I used to be so drained,” Korda added. “I don’t suppose I’ve ever been that drained. I’d get up and I used to be prepared to return to mattress however I couldn’t.
It’s nearly to the purpose the place you simply can’t sleep, you’re simply overly drained.
“I made positive to prioritise any relaxation. My mother and father are on prime of me to not overdo it.
“I at all times need to apply extra, do extra to be higher. So made positive to prioritize my relaxation and ensuring to fall asleep early and sleeping so much, too.
That’s the primary factor for restoration. General this week I really feel actually good.”
Korda and Vu have been drawn collectively for the primary two rounds alongside Australia’s Minjee Lee, whereas English novice Lottie Woad, winner of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice earlier this month, is in a bunch with Madelene Sagstrom and Gabriela Ruffels.
