Nelly Cord shot on Thursday in Chevron.
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A funny thing happens when you look at Nellly Kord: Start thinking that golf is light.
The truth, of course, is quite the opposite. Golf is so endlessly complicated, so complicated, that it is often compared to life: impossible to own, but it’s worth doing anyway.
Nelly Korda reminded us of both of these facts on Thursday In the Chevron Championship -In the same day she arrived in the country as the royal champion of the FRESH tournament a big season that announced her final star of the women’s professional golf, and on the same day she shot an open round 77 to fall 118 in a field of 132.
Cord game looked easy as usual In a shocked chevron on Thursday, her face still fresh and unhappy, her drives are still piercing and straight, her approaches still entering like a table toy in a perfect backbone to follow. But when the results were added, it was clear that something was wrong. Cord, the best player in the world, was beaten by almost everyone.
The first data on her eventual disqualification on Thursday at Carlton Woods were visible at her press conference on Tuesday, when Corda slides she was fighting with vases.
“I just need my holder to click a little more to make them strokes,” Korda said. “I think it’s been missing here – the blows I was doing last year, just I’m not doing so much this year.”
Its setting problems were, it turned out, only on the verge of deterioration. Cord recorded a 33 shock in the round of Thursday’s opening, three shots more than its seasonal average of 29.69, and nine More than Haeran Ryu’s opening round leader. She left Carlton Woods separated by 12 strokes from Ryu, and with work to do just to see her title protection by the weekend in Texas – potentially her third MC in a big championship in the last 12 months.
These kinds of oscillations are not uncommon for a pro -golf player – even one with Korda’s superiority to make it difficult to look difficult. However, they are the type of oscillations that can be more difficult for a new Korda profile player. When you are a good player, your peaks are pronounced; When are you a large One, your valleys are pronounced, as Rory Mcilroy can testify.
Mcilroy learned in the mid -2010s that even big players are separated from their ability to achieve sustainability. In those days, Mcilroy doubled in his placement work with Analyst Brad Faxon’s help -And while Putter has remained a injured place for Mcilroy, it has mainly served as unlocking in a half -decade run in the Major.
Cord seems to be learning a similar lesson in 2025. Reported Amy Rogers of Golf Channel That world No.1 was observed working with a cursing style layer-otherwise from the blade she used on Thursday-after her round, a sign that Cord could require something different.
“I just have to work,” Korda Rogers told Thursday (she did not make a typical media availability). “I’m not hitting well.”
It was not easy for Nelly Cord on Thursday at the Chevron Championship. Golf is that way. Life too.
“That’s just golf,” she said. “I’ve gone through waves like this before, and if I just keep working on it, I hope it will click.”
