Nelly Korda believes she should tame a “beast” of a direction to preserve her implausible run of sort and win america Girls’s Seen.
Korda is a large favorite to hold her 3rd primary name at Lancaster Nation Membership then profitable six of her latter seven occasions.
The sector Negative.1 has crushed a mixed overall of 883 gamers in that reach, dropping to simply six via completing 7th within the Cognizant Founders Cup and is 74 underneath par for her six strokeplay tournaments.
Korda’s dominant run contains her 2d primary victory within the Chevron Championship however she is anticipating a difficult take a look at in Philadelphia, with the direction revised and lengthened to a par-70 of 6,583 yards because it latter hosted america Seen in 2015.
“It’s a beast of a golf course,” mentioned Korda, who was once now not within the farmland 9 years in the past.
“Off the tee, if you don’t hit it into the fairways, it sinks down into the rough. These greens are small and very, very undulated.
“It’s going to check each facet of simply your golfing sport or even your psychological sport as it’s a big championship.
“You can get ahead of yourself, get lost in the moment. If you make a couple of mistakes here and there, sometimes it can get away from you, but it’s going to test every aspect of your game out there this week.
“Visually it appears such a lot shorter than it’s. There’s bunkers that you simply see that you simply assume you’re going to hold that you find yourself perhaps 10 yards decrease of.
“The rough is very thick around the greens too. I think they’ve cut the grass around the greens so that, with the false fronts, it comes all the way down to the back where it’s a little thicker.
“Clearly I travel into each month in need of to win, however there’s a sense that once in a while that’s now not reasonable.
“For me, I need to give 100 per cent of myself every single day to, not just my golf, (but) my family, my workouts, life outside of golf. For me, that’s the number one thing for me.”
