Korda shocked by a ten as US Open bid hits the skids

Nelly Korda took a ten on her third gap of the US Girls’s Open when she hit three short-game photographs into the stream in entrance of the par-three twelfth inexperienced.

It was a devastating begin for the No.1 participant in ladies’s golf at Lancaster Nation Membership, a course that already was taking part in troublesome sufficient that birdies have been laborious to seek out.

The Florida-born Korda walked off the inexperienced and eliminated her visor, inserting her hand over her brow for a couple of seconds earlier than strolling over to the subsequent tee. A video crew stored the digital camera mounted on the strolling scorer as ‘+1’ was modified to a ‘+8’ subsequent to her title.

The twelfth gap – Korda began her spherical on No. 10 – had the markings of an issue. It measures 161 yards down the hill to a inexperienced that slopes from again to entrance and has a stream in entrance of it. The pin was on the entrance, the place the inexperienced pitches extra severely towards the water.

When Korda’s group reached the outlet, there have been two different teams on the tee ready to play.

Her tee shot bounced over the inexperienced right into a bunker. Korda splashed it out of the sand with an excessive amount of tempo, and it rolled previous the pin and stored happening the slope into the water. She took a penalty drop on the opposite aspect of the stream and hit a low pitch that hit the financial institution and rolled again into the water.

She took one other penalty drop. Her subsequent pitch flew to the entrance of the inexperienced, and rolled again once more into the water. Korda dropped right into a crouch, shocked by a US Girls’s Open that was getting away from her simply as she was getting began.

Korda dropped a 3rd time, hit a pitch that flew to the outlet and rolled about eight ft by. She missed the putt and took a septuple-bogey 10.

Korda started her spherical with a bogey when she didn’t have sufficient membership from 160 yards away. Her ball landed simply in need of the inexperienced and rolled some 35 yards down a steep hill.

She was the overwhelming favorite coming into the largest occasion on the LPGA schedule, a winner in six of her final seven tournaments. That included the primary main of the 12 months within the Chevron Championship, the place she tied an LPGA file along with her fifth win in a row.

Korda has solely two high 10s within the US Girls’s Open, referred to as being the hardest check in golf with its troublesome setup.