Nellie Corda’s bid to take care of her unbelievable kind has come to naught after simply three holes within the first spherical of the US Ladies’s Open.
Corda was the overwhelming favourite to say her third main title at Lancaster Nation Membership in Philadelphia after successful six of her final seven occasions.
Nevertheless, after beginning with a bogey on the tenth, the world primary raced to a seven-bogey 10 on the par-three twelfth after hitting three balls within the water, ultimately ending 10 over par for her spherical and was already combating simply to make the lower.
“I simply did not play nicely at the moment,” Korda mentioned. “I did not have a very good shot, I used to be in a variety of bother – 10 on par or three undoubtedly would not do you any good on the US Open.
“I began actually dangerous however performed fairly nicely on the again 9. However general, only a dangerous day on the workplace.
“My final two rounds on the U.S. Ladies’s Open have been dangerous. I completed Sunday at Pebble [Beach] I believe I shot 81 and I shot 80 at the moment.
“I am human, I will have dangerous days. I have been taking part in actually good golf up till this level, at the moment was only a dangerous day.”
The twelfth gap was marked with an issue. It’s 161 yards down a hill to a inexperienced that slopes from the again to the entrance and has a creek in entrance of it. The pin was on the entrance the place the inexperienced leans extra towards the water.
When Korda’s group reached the outlet, there have been two different teams on the inexperienced ready to play, and when she was lastly capable of hit her first shot, her putt bounced over the inexperienced and into the bunker.
Corda splashed it out of the sand too quick and it rolled previous the pin and continued down the slope into the water. She took a free drop on the opposite facet of the creek and hit a low pitch that hit the financial institution and rolled again into the water.
One other free drop adopted, and Korda’s subsequent pitch flew to the entrance of the inexperienced and rolled again into the water, leaving her crouched.
Corda fell a 3rd time and hit a pitch that flew into the outlet and rolled about eight ft previous her. She missed a shot and ended up with a seven-bogey-10.
Corda began her spherical with a bogey when she missed the membership from 160 yards. Her ball landed wanting the inexperienced and rolled about 35 yards down a steep hill.
The 25-year-old carded 5 extra bogeys for a first-round 80, with birdies on the twelfth, sixteenth and seventeenth holes giving her little comfort.
Korda’s dominant streak this season consists of her second main win on the Chevron Championship, however she admitted in her pre-tournament press convention that she anticipated to face “the beast” this week.
“I am truly a bit shocked,” mentioned former Ladies’s Open champion Catriona Mathew Sky Sports activities. “It is a robust begin, beginning on the again 9, however I believe it should be an actual physique blow for her.
“Ten in three and getting into as heavy favourites, it should be a physique blow and an actual struggle to return again from that.
“It was an Annika Sorenstam or Tiger Woods season [for Korda]and I believe that is why we’re all in such a state of shock about it beginning.”
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