The unique plan for Nelly Korda at this week’s Grant Thornton Invitational was for her to play alongside Tony Finau. However Finau withdrew on the eleventh hour, leaving Korda to scramble for a brand new PGA Tour associate.
So she referred to as Daniel Berger, who she known as his “savior,” to play together with her this week. Berger hails from and continues to reside in South Florida, which made it simple for the 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup staff member.
Berger has not performed a lot golf just lately, so he arrived in Naples feeling considerably unprepared. However that didn’t section Korda, who supplied him the last word praise—albeit hilarious—after their second spherical on Saturday.
“I’ll positively star you on my PGA Tour app,” Korda stated with a smile.
“He hit so many fairways, actually nice iron play, and on prime of that he rolls it very well. He checks all of the containers. He has a brand new fan in me.”
Inside the PGA Tour app, you possibly can click on just a little ‘star’ icon subsequent to every participant who seems on the leaderboard. Whichever ‘star’ you choose seems in your favorites part on the prime of the board, making it simpler to see your favourite gamers. Therefore Korda making the joke that she did.
“I really like his course of on the greens; it’s very diligent as nicely,” Korda stated of Berger.
“He’s a really a lot finesse participant. We have been type of speaking about it on the primary day. I by no means hit my pictures actually full, and I wish to really feel it in, and he does the identical factor. So I at all times respect that when a participant reveals his creative facet.”
Korda produced a historic 2024 season that noticed her win seven instances, so she is aware of good golf when she sees it. Sadly, Korda and Berger couldn’t make sufficient birdies to contend this week, as they finally completed in solo thirteenth.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. Comply with him on X @jack_milko.
