Nelly Korda slows her torrid pace and settles for 5-shot lead in Chevron Championship
HOUSTON — Nelly Korda tied the 54-hole scoring record at The Chevron Championship on Saturday. She had a five-shot lead going into the final round, the largest of her career. A victory would take her back to No.
1 in the women’s world ranking. And she headed straight for the putting green. For so much that had gone right for Korda, who stretched her lead to eight shots at one point at Memorial Park, there was part of her game she needed to polish.
She missed three 4-foot putts over the final 11 holes and had to settle for a 2-under 70 in an otherwise exquisite performance. “On the back nine I learned that I needed to stay in it and not to focus so much on my mis-hits with my putts,” she said. “So I just needed to keep giving myself opportunities, which I was.
I don’t want it to bleed into the other parts of my game where then I start to get so frustrated that it affects my driver, affects my irons. Just didn’t want that at all. I wanted to continue giving myself opportunities even if I want holing them.
“I was still trying my best, and at the end of the day that’s all I can control,” she said. “I can’t be frustrated with anything but that. ” Korda looked close to unbeatable for so long with another clinic controlling her irons on the heavily sloped greens.
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