LPGA: Nelly Korda explains why historic sixth straight win not going

Nelly Korda has had fairly a 12 months already.

She has gained 5 consecutive tournaments and clinched her second main title at The Chevron Championship. This previous Monday, Korda even attended The Met Gala, the place she walked the pink carpet alongside popular culture’s most interesting.

Now, her consideration shifts to the Cognizant Founders Cup, the place she appears to win in her sixth straight begin in historic vogue. No person in LPGA historical past—not even Annika Sorenstam—has achieved that feat.

However Korda defined why one other victory is probably going not within the playing cards in her pre-tournament press convention.

“If I’m being sincere, I’ve not thought of [this tournament] in any respect as a result of I’ve had a lot occurring these two weeks,” Korda mentioned.

“Then clearly, Monday I had The Met, so I haven’t had an excessive amount of time to consider it.”

As well as, Korda has not performed her finest in New Jersey, which additionally hosted the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship one 12 months in the past. Korda missed the lower at Baltusrol by six photographs after totaling an 11-over rating by means of 36 holes.

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She additionally missed the lower finally 12 months’s Cognizant Founders Cup, which noticed Jin Younger Ko prevail.

“My monitor file hasn’t been the best in New Jersey,” Korda added.

“I’m actually simply attempting to take it one shot at a time and see the way it goes. This golf course is hard. It’s very, very slim off the tee. The tough could be very penalizing. And it’s moist this 12 months, so it’s even worse.”

Taking part in programs within the Northeast within the spring all the time proves difficult. Climate is all the time an element, and to no person’s shock, temperatures will hover across the low 60s this weekend in New Jersey. Friday and Sunday’s forecast requires rain, too.

Meaning the golf ball won’t journey so far as it will in sunny and dry circumstances, making it far more difficult on the sector.

But, Korda can’t get herself to look too far forward.

“I simply can’t get too forward of myself; I’ve to take it one shot at a time,” Korda added.

“As boring because it sounds or as many instances as you’re going to listen to me say it, that’s the motto, and I’m going to stay to it.”

That motto has labored up to now in 2024, and he or she mustn’t shrink back from it this week in New Jersey. Regardless of that, she gave loads of causes as to why her successful streak would finish.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. You’ll want to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as properly.