Nelly Korda’s bid to keep up her unbelievable run of kind unravelled after simply three holes of the opening spherical within the US Ladies’s Open.
Korda was an enormous favorite to safe her third main title at Lancaster Nation Membership in Philadelphia after successful six of her final seven occasions.
Nonetheless, having began with a bogey on the tenth, the world primary ran up a septuple-bogey 10 on the par-three twelfth after hitting three balls into the water.
Korda’s tee shot discovered the bunker in the back of the inexperienced and her second shot was hit too onerous, catching the slope and rolling into the water.
From the drop zone Korda discovered the water twice extra earlier than lastly hitting her eighth shot on to the inexperienced and two-putting from 9 toes to droop to eight over par.
Korda’s dominant run this season contains her second main victory within the Chevron Championship, however she admitted in her pre-tournament press convention that she was anticipating to face a “beast of a course” this week.
Lancaster Nation Membership has been revised and lengthened to a par-70 of 6,583 yards because it final hosted the US Open in 2015.