Lancaster Country Club sapped Nelly Korda’s superpowers Thursday, with the six-time winner this season carding an 80, the first 10-over-par round of her eight-year career. On Friday, needing a red-figure effort to make the weekend, Korda’s talent emerged with an even-par 70, but the 10-stroke turnaround still was not enough for the World No. 1 Read more…
A May to remember continues for Adela Cernousek. It began three weeks ago when the 20-year-old from France qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Open. Ten days later, the Texas A&M junior pulled off the biggest win of her career by claiming the 2024 NCAA individual title at Omni La Costa Resort. The momentum continued Read more…
With an impressive six-win season achieved before the close of May, Nelly Korda is the primary beneficiary of the LPGA Tour’s groundbreaking purse increases and on the brink of entering uncharted fiscal territory. Korda’s current earnings stand at $2,943,708 from just eight events in 2024, already garnering the eighth-most money in a single season in Read more…
Lexi Thompson announced on Tuesday ahead of this week’s U.S. Women’s Open that she’ll retire at the end of this season. Fittingly, the 29-year-old has been synonymous with the national championship since qualifying for the major in 2007 when she was just 12, starting a streak of 18 consecutive appearances before turning 30. It’s another Read more…
A winner of 14 LPGA events, Korda has notched nearly half of them in only eight starts this season. She is only the fourth player in LPGA history to win at least six times before June.
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson missed qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open on Monday by one stroke. Davidson finished in a three-way tie for third in the 36-hole qualifier at Bradenton (Fla.) Country Club with rounds of 70-73, emerging as the first alternate from the event. She tied two-time LPGA Tour winner Jasmine Suwannapura and Louis Read more…
Nelly Korda’s bid for an historic six wins in a row on the LPGA are all but gone in the Cognizant Founders Cup. The World No. 1 shot a one-over 73 on Saturday at Upper Montclair Country Club and sits 11 shots off the lead of Swede Madelene Sagstrom heading into the final round. The Read more…
Nelly Korda’s chase to become the first player in LPGA history to win six consecutive events remains alive and well as the weekend arrives at the Cognizant Founders Cup. After Rose Zhang, who shot four-under-par 68 early on Friday, Madelene Sagstrom notched a 66 in the afternoon, and both sat tied for first after 36 Read more…
A year shy of Rose Zhang’s breakthrough victory at the Mizuho Americas Open, the 20-year-old made history again in New Jersey. Zhang’s first-round bogey-free 63 at the Cognizant Founders Cup tied the tournament record, giving her a two-stroke lead over Madelene Sagstrom. Zhang topped her career-best by two strokes. “It was almost just auto-command kind Read more…
Nelly Korda finds herself in a familiar position after her first round at the Cognizant Founders Cup—near the top of the leaderboard. She carded an opening three-under 69 Thursday, putting her in a fifth-place tie and four shots off Madelene Sagstrom’s lead through the morning wave. Korda is in an early position to contend for Read more…
All eyes in the golf world now focus on Korda as she goes for her sixth straight victory on the LPGA in the Cognizant Founders Cup this week, a feat never accomplished in the tour’s 74-year history.
We’re only in early May and 2024 has been a career year for Nelly Korda. The 25-year-old has won her last five starts, starting in January at the Drive On Championship and culminating in a major title at the Chevron Championship in late April. She has triumphed across the United States, taking home victories on Read more…
There was no drama in Hollywood at Hannah Green’s title defense of the JM Eagle LA Championship. Unlike her playoff victory last year, Green won by three Sunday over Maja Stark with a steady five-under 67 to win at 12-under-par total. The Australian ran away from the field with a five-under-par stretch on the back Read more…
Korda’s two-stroke victory over Maja Stark makes her one of three in LPGA history to win five straight starts, joining Hall of Famers Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-2005).
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Nelly Korda enters Sunday at the Chevron Championship in prime position in her quest for five straight wins. She sits at 10 under par, tied with Brooke Henderson and a stroke off the lead of Atthaya Thitikul. The obstacles the final day presents amid this streak? After third-round play was suspended Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Ten years after Lexi Thompson’s lone major triumph at 19 years old in the 2014 ANA Inspiration (now Chevron Championship), Thompson missed the two-over cutline at the same major by six shots with scores of 78-74. It’s her sixth missed cut at a major over her last seven starts, with Thompson Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — The weight of Nelly Korda’s four-straight-victory run hasn’t yet lifted from her shoulders. Even with an off week before the Chevron Championship spending quality time with family, Korda, 25, felt at the start of her first round that her energy was at about 70 percent. As the gusting winds firmed up Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lauren Coughlin giving her husband a chance at becoming her full-time caddie has led to some of the best golf of her career. John Pond had lobbied for the job after Coughlin left her caddie of three years following the Blue Bay LPGA in February. Coughlin gave him a chance at Read more…
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