Nelly Korda will not let claustrophobic fairways or two missed cuts in a row maintain her from going full-throttle on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, reside on Sky Sports activities.
The world No 1 arrived within the Pacific Northwest after back-to-back missed cuts on the US Ladies’s Open and final week’s LPGA Meijer Traditional, a pointy distinction to her blistering early season run of six event wins in seven begins.
Korda needs to deal with the optimistic points of her latest struggles, sustaining that the occasional dip in kind is inevitable.
“You can dwell on the negatives, but that will never lead you anywhere, so you try to look at the positives,” Korda stated.
“That is golf. I’ll undergo these conditions so many occasions the place I really feel like I am taking part in very well, and I am going to undergo just a little lull the place golf is the toughest factor in my life proper now.
“I feel like that’s what grows myself as a person and what makes me appreciate the sport so much and makes me appreciate the wins and the highs and good shots.”
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Korda says her technique for this week’s main championship is to get the motive force in her fingers as usually as potential, as she tackles the demanding 6,731-yard, par-72 structure.
“Still going to be aggressive,” the 25-year-old stated. “There’s a couple of holes where I can’t hit driver, but majority of the round I will be hitting driver just because you don’t want a longer club into these greens. Yes, the tee shots are pretty intimidating, but the greens, the second shot in is pretty tough as well.
“So total, I imply, if in case you have the size you could as properly – you must hit it. That is the kind of golf course the place you simply received to sack up and hit your driver.”
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Korda hopes {that a} refresh will result in improved outcomes after a shocking trough, the place she completed with a stunning 10-over 80 within the first spherical of the US Ladies’s Open, which included a septuple-bogey 10 on a par-3 gap.
After that minimize, she could not recuperate from a gap 76 finally week’s Meijer LPGA Traditional and missed her second straight weekend.
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Nelly Korda has had a nightmare begin on the US Ladies’s Open, with an LPGA career-high rating of 10 on the par-3 twelfth gap throughout her opening spherical.
Korda, who gained her first main on the 2021 Ladies’s PGA Championship, additionally admits she additionally has one eye on the defence of her Olympic gold medal on the Paris video games subsequent month.
“I have never been to Paris, and the one thing I’m really looking forward to is the croissants probably on every corner,” Korda joked.
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