Nelly Korda secures second major at Chevron Championship with record-equalling win

American Nelly Korda received the Chevron Championship by two photographs in Texas to safe her second main title and a exceptional fifth straight event win.

The 25-year-old’s victory at The Woodlands noticed her tie the file for many consecutive LPGA wins, with Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) the one different girls to realize the feat.

Korda, who started the ultimate spherical of this yr’s first main one stroke behind South Korean chief Haeran Ryu alongside Canada’s Brooke Henderson, carded a remaining spherical 69 in Houston to complete on 13 underneath for the event.

Sweden’s Maja Stark completed two photographs additional again in second after a closing spherical of 69 and American Lauren Coughlin and Henderson have been tied in third place on 10 underneath, whereas Ryu carded a two-over-par 74 to complete fifth.

When requested how she was capable of put collectively 5 wins in 5 consecutive tournaments, Korda, who made 5 birdies and two bogeys on the ultimate spherical, stated: “I don’t know, however I can lastly breathe now.

“That again 9 felt just like the longest again 9 of my whole life. It was a bit of little bit of a grind on the again 9, however I’m completely happy to get the win.

“I used to be undoubtedly beginning to really feel it on the again 9, simply the nerves setting in. It’s a serious. It’s all the pieces that I’ve at all times wished as a bit of woman, to carry that main trophy.

“As I stated, I can lastly breathe now and simply benefit from the second as a result of I used to be undoubtedly actually nervous. I really feel sick to my abdomen.”

The world primary is the daughter of former Czech tennis participant Petr Korda, who received the Australian Open males’s singles title in 1988.

Her first main win got here on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship in 2021 and she or he secured her first title of the yr, the LPGA Drive On Championship, in January.

She then took a seven-week break and returned to win three occasions within the house of three weeks, together with beating Eire’s Leona Maguire within the remaining of the T-Cell Match Play.

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