HOUSTON — Nelly Korda received the Chevron Championship on Sunday with a efficiency befitting her return as No. 1 in girls’s golf.
Holding a five-shot lead initially, Korda continued to play effectively, with nobody getting nearer than 4 photographs this afternoon at Memorial Park. She shot a 2-under 70 to win by 5 strokes and win her third main championship of her profession.
The victory was her seventeenth on the LPGA and twenty first on the planet, and was sufficient for the 27-year-old American star to return to the highest of the ladies’s world rankings for the primary time since August.
Not solely did Korda win wire-to-wire, it wasn’t really a contest. She hit a 5-iron to five ft for birdie on the sixteenth gap of Thursday’s opening spherical to take the lead and by no means trailed once more.
She joins Nabisco Dinah Shore’s Juli Inkster (1989) and Amy Alcott (1991) as the one gamers previously 50 years to win an LPGA main whereas main by a number of strokes after every spherical.
And by the appears to be like of it, Korda might have simply begun one other nice season. She performed within the ultimate group in all 5 tournaments she competed on this 12 months, successful her season opener and first main event, and ending runner-up in three others.
