As the final round looms, one of the three main contenders is a two-time major winner who seems to have ice running through her veins, another is a child star whose success on the professional circuit seems inevitable, and the last is a 31-year-old who had so little confidence in her game that she expected to shoot 80 and miss the cut, hates pressure and doesn’t think she handles it very well, seems dead tired from the hard walk at Lancaster Country Club, and has been coping with the fear of a ghost.
It was another difficult day full of high scores at the US Women’s Open, where West Australian Minjee Lee again displayed patience and top quality ball-striking to sit one-under and in a share of third place at the halfway mark.
With the 10, Korda dropped to eight-over par, playing two-over-par golf the rest of the round to card a 10-over 80. Only four players have returned higher scores for the day.
Remarkable, amazing, inspiring, historic. Those are the words her fellow competitors reserve for Korda, and starting tonight (Australian time), she’ll have a chance to add a new chapter to her best year as a professional.
Having course awareness and taking the extra step of thinking through a strategy before your shot will help you manage wind that feels like it’s coming from a different direction on every hole.
Thompson will retire at the end of the year. The news was first shared by the USGA ahead of this week’s US Women’s Open, where Thompson, 29, will be making her 18th start in the championship.
World No.2 Lilia Vu has been dealing with back issues that have allowed her only seven starts in 2024, and she will miss another one when the 79th US Women’s Open is played this week at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania.
Korda bends more than she turns, which as Golf Digest Best in State Teacher Jeff Smith explains here, is a key trait for players who hit right-to-left draws.
A winner of 14 LPGA events, Korda has notched nearly half of them in only eight starts this season. She is only the fourth player in LPGA history to win at least six times before June.
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