The final time we noticed Nelly Korda she was combating a two-way miss at Sahalee en path to her third straight missed reduce, second in a significant, on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship. Korda’s week in Washington state then bought worse as she was bitten by a canine at a espresso store in Seattle.
Now a pair weeks later, Korda is again in motion at this week’s Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth of 5 girls’s majors this yr.
Korda was reticent to disclose many particulars in regards to the chunk, aside from it occurred on her thigh and that it was “getting higher.” She did notice that she took every week off following KMPG earlier than getting again to work on her swing with teacher Jamie Mulligan.
“Didn’t even take a look at my golf equipment after KPMG,” Korda mentioned Wednesday in France. “Was simply therapeutic. Then been working towards. Was fortunate that Jamie got here in, my coach got here in for 2 days with me to apply with me. Practiced the previous week and tried to prepare for this occasion. … I really feel like I simply bought unfastened. I had a two-way miss and that was fairly troublesome at Sahalee. Wasn’t actually dialed in any respect. Simply tried to get the swing dialed and provides myself one key to work on.”
Korda is perhaps slumping, however she isn’t too far faraway from a dominant stretch that noticed her win six of seven begins, capped by her most up-to-date win on the Mizuho Americas Open in mid-Could.
“I believe I’ve gone by each emotion doable, and it’s simply July, on the golf course,” Korda mentioned. “You understand, I like this recreation. I like the dangerous, I like the nice. The dangerous makes you respect the nice and that’s simply how it’s. It’s sports activities. Should you care so deeply about it, you’re simply going to undergo the wave of the curler coaster.”
