Nelly Korda produced a dominant wire-to-wire victory at The Chevron Championship at Memorial Park Golf Course on Sunday to assert her third main title, beating Ruoning Yin and Patty Tavatanakit by 5 pictures.
The 27-year-old was imperious all through all 4 rounds, as she superior to complete the week at 18-under par, and can now overtake Jeeno Thitikul on the high of the Rolex Girls’s Golf Rankings.
Such was her dominance, Korda had equalled the record-low 54-hole rating coming into Sunday’s ultimate spherical, main the sector by 5 pictures.
She began strongly, going two-under via her first three holes, as Yin and Tavatanakit tried to chop into the American’s lead.
Korda gave the impression to be battling together with her placing coming into the weekend, with the American admitting that she had returned to the observe inexperienced following her third spherical to work on her brief recreation.
The identical points appeared to current themselves on Sunday, with Korda lacking a birdie putt on the second gap and once more on the par 5 eighth.
She would two-putt on the par 4 twelfth, making a bogey, giving Yin and Patty Tavatanakit a glimmer of hope.
However the unflappable Korda confirmed her composure, bouncing again with a pair of birdies on the thirteenth and 14th, earlier than making one other bogey on the seventeenth.
Regardless of that, Korda was firm, draining an extended par putt on the 18th gap to assert victory.
It’s her second victory on the LPGA Tour this season, with Korda having loved a superb begin to 2026, claiming victory on the Hilton Grand Holidays Event of Champions in January.
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