NELLY CORDA hot putter is bad news for us open contenders

Erin, Wis. – Nelly cord describes her relationship with open US women as “complicated”. And when you look at her story in this championship, it’s easy to see why. Despite being one of the most talented players on the planet (if not The most talented), the cord’s record at National Open has been the best pedestrian – and full putrid at worst.

Ever since she made her first start of women in the US in 2013, she has the same number of 25 best as rounds in the 80s (two). It has finished twice within 10 top 10, but it has also lost cutting in three of the last four years – including one catastrophic performance At Lancaster Country Club last summer that included a 10 on the score card. For a cord -caliber player, the results simply do not match the talent level.

“Lots of landing,” Korda said earlier this week. “Test is the biggest test in the golf game. It has definitely tested me a lot.”

That test continued during the first 18 holes of this We open women. Despite hitting the ball beautifully (she won 3.26 tee strokes in green), Cord could only collect a bird on the day on its way to an equal principle of 72. The culprit for its incorrect result? A bold coercion that surrendered .77 strokes in the field, ranking outside the 100 first in round 1.

Despite all, Korda was in good spirit while confronted with the media late Thursday evening. In championships like this, posting an equal result without better items is nothing to make fun of.

“I was hitting my really good blows,” Korda said. “Wherever I was looking, rolling it on my intermediate target, it was where I was hitting it. I have no complaint. I will say I didn’t really hit a bad blow.”

This type of positive self-talkeder can be a common part among professional players. A certain level of fraud can do wonders for mental play when things go poorly among ropes. However, on Friday, Korda proved that its positivity after round 1 was not just lip service.

Playing along with Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson – this week’s “Supergroup” – the cord came to life in the early green on Friday morning. As she continued to fill her narrow approaches, those burnt edges and lips that were common the day before to turn into circles on Friday morning.

“Honestly, I was hitting yesterday really good. I was hitting exactly where I wanted and they just didn’t fall,” Korda “Today I did the same; really didn’t try to do anything different, I tried to flip it over an intermediate target.”

This simple recipe worked miraculously while Korda cardboard was seven birds on the street to a 67-year-old’s five-year-old to throw herself in the Top 5. While putting it on Thursday, in round 2 she turned into a gun while she tried over 100 meters puts, winning almost a hook in the process in the process.

“I’m not riding on the rolling coaster as ever,” Korda told her turn. “I’m just trying to be very run and just know if I make a mistake I can dance again.”

Cord knows how and anyone who the main championships are not earned with a single good round. But with its gorgeous ball numbers that keep stable, it is a sure bet that its name will be near the top of the manager’s table to come on Sunday.

“I’m happy to be in the position I’m going on the weekend,” she said.

With the way she rotated the ball on Friday, this can pronounce bad news for the rest of the open women’s contenders in the US during the next two rounds.

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