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While Scottie Scheffler is wreaking havoc connected nan PGA Tour, Nelly Korda is doing nan nonstop aforesaid connected nan LPGA Tour.
Korda won nan Chevron Championship connected Sunday, nan year’s first awesome connected nan LPGA Tour, and it marked her 5th consecutive victory.
Korda, 25, joined Annika Sorestam and Nancy Lopez arsenic nan only members connected Tour who person won 5 consecutive events. It was besides Korda’s 2nd profession awesome victory, having won nan Women’s PGA Championship successful 2021.
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Nelly Korda tees disconnected connected nan 12th spread during nan title information of The Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods connected Sunday, April 21, 2024 successful The Woodlands. Nelly Korda won nan tourney by shooting a combined13 beneath par. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
"It's been an astonishing emotion these past mates weeks knowing that I tin spell connected this agelong and that if I enactment successful my bubble and I support play successful a consciousness elemental and fto it flow, past I tin person so, truthful overmuch nosy retired here," Korda said, via ESPN.
Korda was capable to hoist nan Chevron Championship trophy aft birdying nan par-5 18th spread astatine Carlton Woods in Texas. She hit retired Maja Stark, who birdied her last 2 holes to propulsion wrong 1 changeable of Korda.
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Korda’s 13-under capacity for nan tourney had respective highlights, too, including a chip-in birdie connected nan par-4 10th spread successful her last information that near nan crowd roaring.
With nan victory, Korda won $1.2 cardinal from nan $7.9 cardinal purse for nan major. She has now earned $2,424,216 this year.
There was a clip wherever Korda wasn’t judge erstwhile she’d beryllium backmost connected a play course, arsenic she dealt pinch a humor clot that required room successful 2022.
Nelly Korda of nan United States jumps into nan h2o aft winning The Chevron Championship astatine The Club astatine Carlton Woods connected April 21, 2024 successful The Woodlands, Texas. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
"Because evidently past I was conscionable much frightened for my health," she said. "Competing was benignant of connected nan backmost seat. I was not reasoning astir competing astatine all. But I deliberation each of nan sad times and nan wellness scares that I person gone done person made maine who I americium today."
She’s nan world No. 1 women’s golfer and miraculously hasn’t mislaid an arena since January.
Next week, though, Korda isn’t going to make it six successful a row, arsenic she announced her withdrawal from nan JM Eagle LA Championship.
"It was not an easy decision. After nan unbelievable week astatine The Chevron and grinding done nan intelligence and beingness challenges of 4 events successful nan past 5 weeks, I americium decidedly emotion exhausted," she explained. "With truthful overmuch still to travel passim 2024, I consciousness I request to perceive to my assemblage and get immoderate rest, truthful I tin beryllium fresh for nan remainder of nan season."
Nelly Korda of nan United States celebrates pinch nan trophy aft winning The Chevron Championship astatine The Club astatine Carlton Woods connected April 21, 2024 successful The Woodlands, Texas. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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In turn, Korda’s streak will beryllium connected nan statement connected May 9 astatine nan Cognizant Founders Cup successful New Jersey.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
