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 task in her three-week layoff.
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Still, she sits 5 again of Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit, younger Swedish phenom Ingrid Lindblad, and Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland after day one. But Korda will want a strong second spherical to maintain tempo with the leaders going into the weekend.
That didn’t occur in the newest main championship, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee. After posting a 3-under 69 on day one, Korda posted an abysmal 9-over 81 to overlook the lower. She stated she had “no phrases” about that spherical, solely that it continued a current pattern stemming again to the U.S. Women’s Open, the place she additionally missed the weekend. She additionally had a missed lower on the Meijer LPGA Classic sandwiched in between.
“You know, I really like this sport. I really like the unhealthy, I really like the great,” Korda stated forward of this week’s Amundi Evian Championship.
“The unhealthy makes you recognize the great, and that’s simply how it’s. It’s sports activities. If 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 pattern upwards as soon as once more—maybe again to the place she was throughout the starting of half of the season when she received six occasions. But something higher than a missed lower shall be a welcome signal because the Paris Olympics begin in a couple of weeks.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be positive to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You can comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as effectively.
