The “wind hole” continues for Nelly Korda. The undisputed world No. 1, victorious in six LPGA tournaments (together with 5 in a row) between January 25 and Could 16, 2024, won’t defend her title in a number of days on the Centurion Membership, north of London, for the Aramco Staff Collection London.
A vital stage of the Women European Tour (1 million {dollars} in prize cash). The American withdrew from the sphere after being bitten by a canine on the finish of final week, simply after lacking the reduce on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.
Nelly Korda, statements
“I remorse to announce that I need to withdraw from the event,” she stated on her Instagram account. Saturday in Seattle I used to be bitten by a canine and wish time to obtain remedy and absolutely recuperate.
Thanks for understanding. I can’t wait to get again on the course. » Since her victory – her sixth – on the Mizuho Americas Open in mid-Could, the Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo has missed three cuts in a row, together with two on the US Ladies’s Open and the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.
Throughout this third Main of the season, she even signed the worst rating in her profession with an 81 (+9) after having performed 69 (-3) the day earlier than. We must always see her once more for the 4th ladies’s Grand Slam event, the Amundi Evian Championship, scheduled in Evian-les-Bains (74) from July 11 to 14.
She turned skilled in 2016 with participation within the Symetra Tour, the place she obtained her first victory on the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Problem with rounds of 68-67-69-66 which earned her the success towards the Thai Meechai.
She opens 2021 by successful the Gainbridge LPGA in Orlando, on the inexperienced of the Lake Nona Golf & Nation Membership (par 72), with a complete of 272 (-16) strokes, due to which she beats the competitors from the second-placed Thompson and Ko (275, -13), and the South Korean and world nº 1 Ko (277, -11).
The next June she received her first main, with success on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, due to which she jumped to the highest of the world rankings – the primary American to prime the rating since Lewis in 2014 – and broke an extended area of South Korean feminine golfers.
Due to the place attributed to her by the Rolex World Ladies’s Golf Rating, she obtained qualification for the person event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games: she was among the many 4 representatives of the USA in Japan along with the varied Thompsons, Kangs and her older sister Jessica.
On August 7, she turned Olympic champion on the course of the Kasumigaseki Nation Membership in Kawagoe, closing the occasion with 267 strokes, 17 below par. In second place after the primary spherical with 67 strokes, -4 on par, he takes the lead within the second spherical accomplished in 62 strokes and within the final two rounds he manages the benefit, each ending with 69 strokes, resisting the comeback of the host Inami and the New Zealander Ko, who completed the take a look at with 268 photographs.