After showing on purple carpet on the Met Gala, Nelly Korda goes for sixth straight win at Cognizant
CLIFTON, N.J. — Issues are going effectively for Nelly Korda today, that is for positive.
The 25-year-old has received a record-tying 5 straight tournaments. She has the No. 1 rating on the earth, together with the 2024 lead in earnings, scoring common and factors for the participant of the 12 months award. And on prime of all of it, she received to stay out a childhood dream by strolling the purple carpet on the Met Gala earlier this week.
Korda will attempt to change into the primary girl to win six consecutive LPGA begins when play within the 72-hole Cognizant Founders Cup will get underway Thursday on the Higher Montclair Nation Membership.
“If I’m being sincere, I’ve not thought of it in any respect as a result of I’ve had a lot occurring these two weeks,” stated Korda, who has not performed since profitable The Chevron Championship in Texas. “Then clearly yesterday — or Monday — I had the Met, so haven’t had an excessive amount of time to consider it.”
In profitable her second profession main two weeks in the past, Korda tied Corridor of Famers Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) and Nancy Lopez (1978) for many consecutive match wins. Byron Nelson holds golf’s all-time mark with 11 straight wins in 1945.
The normally reserved Korda insisted she is just not pondering that far forward, noting that may result in a deep rabbit gap.
Whereas she has been off the previous two weeks, Korda stated she by no means received far-off from her recreation, regardless of catching up on sleep and spending plenty of time on the sofa.
“There may be two sides to it,” she stated. “Clearly after I’m house, I’m positively working towards much more and attempting to work on method. After I’m out right here, the best way I preserve it easy is by not overdoing it an excessive amount of. Going out, seeing the golf course, doing my work with my caddie, selecting a recreation plan, after which that’s it.”
Prior to now, Korda stated she would come to occasions and do an excessive amount of. Now she is aware of she has put within the work beforehand, and it is simply time to execute when an occasion begins.
The profitable streak had an sudden profit this week when Korda received an invite to the Met Gala.
“It was so, so loopy,” she stated. “You’re standing in line able to get on the carpet and also you’re like seeing all these individuals you normally watch in TV exhibits or films and so they’re like well-known singers and also you’re starstruck all the time. It’s the most effective people-watching for me. I used to be simply silently everybody’s clothes.”
Korda was given various Oscar de la Renta clothes to attempt on, and seemingly settled on long-sleeve robe.
Twenty minutes earlier than strolling on the carpet, she had a golf second, like when the breeze picks up earlier than a shot to the inexperienced. The 9-iron turned a pitching wedge.
“I noticed this superb purple costume and I simply modified my total look most likely 20 minutes earlier than I began to prepare,” Korda stated. “Switched it up on everybody. It’s simply, I imply, that is me. That is me, visor on, carrying golf garments. That is my consolation zone. It was actually, actually neat to step outdoors of my consolation zone and do one thing like that.”
It was neat although, and like every little thing Korda has completed on the golf course, it was an ideal alternative.
“I assumed I might by no means ever assume that I might ever be capable of attend the Met Gala,” Korda stated. “As a woman I watched it rising up and simply in awe of all of the clothes. To be on the purple carpet or inexperienced carpet was a dream come true.”
Korda has not fared effectively taking part in in New Jersey. She missed the lower on this occasion and the Ladies’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol in 2023. The Florida resident can be paired for the primary two rounds with defending champion Jin Younger Ko of South Korea and 2022 champion Minjee Lee of Australia. Lee misplaced in a playoff with Ko final 12 months.
Corridor of Famers Pat Bradley and Beth Daniel, who’re right here for the occasion that honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour, really feel the stress is on Korda.
“I’m positive she will be able to’t anticipate the bell to ring and get inside these ropes and be capable of focus like she does,” Bradley stated.
“I watched when she received the fifth in a row and he or she stated that was essentially the most nervous she’s been down the stretch,” Daniel stated. “I can solely think about how nerve-wracking this week goes to be.”
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