World No. 1 Nelly Korda acquired off to a roaring begin on the Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth main of the season, which is happening this week in France.
Having began on the tenth gap, Korda made three birdies over her first six holes to rapidly climb the leaderboard and vault to 3-under for the championship, however a double bogey at 16 stalled her momentum.
She managed to bounce again with a birdie on the par-4 18th, as she made the flip after carding a 2-under 34.
Two bogies and two birdies adopted on the entrance, main Korda to shoot a 2-under 69 throughout Thursday’s opening spherical—not a foul rating after struggling a canine chunk in Seattle that additionally performed a job in her three-week layoff.
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Nonetheless, she sits 5 again of Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit, younger Swedish phenom Ingrid Lindblad, and Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland after day one. However Korda will want a strong second spherical to maintain tempo with the leaders going into the weekend.
That didn’t occur in the latest main championship, the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship at Sahalee. After posting a 3-under 69 on day one, Korda posted an abysmal 9-over 81 to overlook the minimize. She stated she had “no phrases” about that spherical, solely that it continued a latest development stemming again to the U.S. Girls’s Open, the place she additionally missed the weekend. She additionally had a missed minimize on the Meijer LPGA Traditional sandwiched in between.
“You realize, I like this sport. I like the dangerous, I like the great,” Korda stated forward of this week’s Amundi Evian Championship.
“The dangerous makes you respect the great, and that’s simply how it’s. It’s sports activities. In case you care so deeply about it, you’re simply going to undergo the wave of the curler coaster.”
Hopefully, for Korda’s sake, this week’s main alongside the shores of Lake Geneva will see her development upwards as soon as once more—maybe again to the place she was through the starting of half of the season when she received six occasions. However something higher than a missed minimize shall be a welcome signal because the Paris Olympics begin in a number of weeks.
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