The LPGA Tour heads this week to its first major of the season on non-American soil for the Amundi Evian Championship in France amid some of its most uncertain times of the 2024 season.
Sydney native Steph Kyriacou has turned around her Women’s PGA Championship hopes with a 69 on day two putting her at one-under-par through two rounds and five shots off the halfway lead.
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.
Ahead of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Korda and long-time caddie Jason McDede subtly changed their club-selection process to give the 25-year-old more responsibility on her club choices at Sahalee Country Club.
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.
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.
Korda wore a gown from famous designer Oscar de la Renta to the exclusive event, attending as a guest of Casey Wasserman, her management agency’s chairperson.
Both Lopez and Sorenstam remember what it was like to be the biggest stories on the LPGA and have advice for Korda as she navigates these barely charted waters.