Nelly Korda’s shocking fall Friday dropped her from contending at Sahalee Country Club to leaving before the weekend at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
The American continued her stellar play with a four-under 68 in the opening round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship to take the outright lead after the first round of a major for the first time in her 13-year career. Meanwhile, world No.5 Hannah Green is the best-placed Australian.
Major winners Minjee Lee and Hannah Green will spearhead an eight-strong Australian contingent at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but Sydney’s Grace Kim arrives as the most in-form having tied for second after a crushing playoff loss on the LPGA Tour last week.
Major champion and five-time LPGA Tour winner, Hannah Green, sits down to chat Olympic hopes for her Australian team, being married to a fellow travelling tour pro and everything else that comes with being Australia’s top-ranked golfer.
World No.5 and a major champion already, Hannah Green has returned to Lancaster Country Club to lead a six-strong Australian contingent at the $18 million US Women’s Open.
Remarkable, amazing, inspiring, historic. Those are the words her fellow competitors reserve for Korda, and starting tonight (Australian time), she’ll have a chance to add a new chapter to her best year as a professional.
Australia will have its strongest representation in tournament history with nine Aussies to tee it up at the Chevron Championship in Texas starting tonight (Australian time).
Recently married Australian professional Hannah Green has produced an astonishing finish by holing a remarkable 25-foot birdie putt on the last hole to win the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore by a single stroke.
Jarryd Felton married Hannah Green last Friday, but there was no time for a honeymoon let alone any normal home life in Perth for Australian golf’s power couple.
Australian Golf Digest
