World primary Nelly Korda insists she is taking nothing without any consideration as she bids to safe a exceptional fifth straight win and second main title within the Chevron Championship.
Korda took a seven-week break after profitable her first title of the yr, the LPGA Drive On Championship, in January, and returned to win three occasions within the area of three weeks, together with beating Eire’s Leona Maguire within the closing of the T-Cellular Match Play.
The 25-year-old is the primary lady to win on 4 consecutive begins since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 and can be the primary to enter a significant on such a streak since Annika Sorenstam.
NOT TAKING IN FOR GRANTED
Sorenstam’s run got here between the top of the 2004 season and the beginning of 2005 and the Swedish star went on to win the Kraft Nabisco by eight pictures.
“In 2021 I went on a run, after which in 2022 and 2023 golf actually humbled me,” admitted Korda, who gained 4 instances in 2021, together with her sole main title thus far within the Girls’s PGA Championship.
“There are ups and downs. Each athlete goes via the rollercoaster, and that’s what makes the game so nice. You mature and develop a lot and be taught extra about your self.
“You by no means take these weeks without any consideration. You at all times attempt to respect and grow to be very grateful for them.
“It makes simply all of the exhausting work so value it. However I feel I’ve realized a lot about myself even via the losses.”
NOT MUCH REST
Korda has had one week since her final victory to recharge the batteries forward of the primary girls’s main of the season at Carlton Woods in Texas, the place she completed a shot outdoors the play-off gained by Lilia Vu final yr.
“Final week I used to be so drained,” Korda added. “I don’t suppose I’ve ever been that drained. I’d get up and I used to be prepared to return to mattress however I couldn’t.
It’s nearly to the purpose the place you simply can’t sleep, you’re simply overly drained.
“I made certain to prioritise any relaxation. My mother and father are on high of me to not overdo it.
“I at all times wish to apply extra, do extra to be higher. So made certain to prioritize my relaxation and ensuring to fall asleep early and sleeping so much, too.
That’s the primary factor for restoration. Total this week I really feel actually good.”
Korda and Vu have been drawn collectively for the primary two rounds alongside Australia’s Minjee Lee, whereas English newbie Lottie Woad, winner of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice earlier this month, is in a bunch with Madelene Sagstrom and Gabriela Ruffels.
