American Nelly Korda won the Chevron Championship in Texas by two strokes to claim her second Grand Slam title and a stunning fifth in a row The game is won.
The 25-year-old’s win at The Woodlands tied her for the LPGA record for consecutive wins, with Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) the only others to achieve that Women of this feat.
Korda trailed South Korea’s leading player Yu Hae-ran in the final round of her first Grand Slam tournament of the year and started the final round with Canada’s Brooke Henderson in Houston. He shot a 69 and ended the tournament at 13 under par.
Sweden’s Maja Stark finished two strokes back in second after a final-round 69, while Americans Lauren Coughlin and Henderson finished just under The score of par 10 was tied for third place, while Ryu shot a 2-over par 74 and finished fifth.
Asked how she was able to pull off five wins in five straight matches, Korda, who had five birdies and two bogeys in the final round, said: “I don’t know, but I can finally breathe now. .
“That back nine felt like the longest back nine of my life. The back nine was a little tough, but I was happy to win.
“I definitely started to feel it on the back nine, the nerves started to build. This is a major. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted as a little girl, to lift that important trophy.
“Like I said, I can finally breathe now and enjoy the moment because I was really nervous. I felt sick to my stomach.
The world number one is the daughter of former Czech tennis player Petr Korda, who won the Australian Open men’s singles title in 1988.
Her first major victory came at the 2021 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and her first title of the year, the LPGA Drive On Championship, came in January.
She then took a seven-week break and won three events in three weeks, including defeating Ireland’s Leona Maguire in the T-Mobile Match Play final.
