Final piece to red-hot Aussie\u2019s puzzle as star speaks over insane run<\/a><\/p>\nCassie Porter of Australia looks on from the 10th green during the first round of The Chevron Championship.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Steph Kyriacou and Robyn Choi sit alongside Green at one-over par, while world No.7 Minjee Lee shot a two-over 74.<\/p>\n
The three-time major champion has the chance to complete the career grand slam this week at a venue, Memorial Park, where her brother, Min Woo, claimed his maiden PGA Tour victory last year.<\/p>\n
Fellow major winner Grace Kim also needs a solid second round to make the cut after an opening 75.<\/p>\n
Gabi Ruffels, whose start to the year has been hampered by a wrist injury, is further back at six-over par.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Korda charged to the top of the leaderboard with a bogey free afternoon round.<\/p>\n
The American, who won this event in 2024, lit up the second nine – having teed off the tenth – with five birdies to establish a two-shot buffer from 2021 champion Patty Tavatanakit and Korea\u2019s Somi Lee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was I impressed with? Overall everything,\u201d Korda told reporters post-round. <\/p>\n
\u201cI made some good putts for par as well. I actually made a really long one on my first hole which could have started out the day with a bogey and I didn\u2019t. I made a really solid putt. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven on the second hole where I saved probably a five-footer for birdie and I think I saved almost a seven-footer — sorry for par. And I also saved about a seven, six-, seven-foot slider for par on the first hole. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo made some good up and downs. Made some good saves for par. I think just overall I was pretty happy with every part of the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust maybe hit my driver a little bit far left and right on a couple holes. There wasn\u2019t just one direct miss. But on a golf course like this where the rough isn\u2019t too high I think it\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelly Korda smiles towards her caddie on the ninth green after the first round of the Chevron Championship.Source: AP<\/p>\n
The story of the day, however, belonged to amateur Farah O\u2019Keefe, who shot a four-under 68.<\/p>\n
A bogey at the last was O\u2019Keefe\u2019s only blemish for the day.<\/p>\n
The world No.4 amateur is from the University of Texas and recently shot 64 in a practice round at Augusta National ahead of the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was kind of last minute (the invite). Got it right after ANWA,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Taylor told me that, she told me I got an invitation I was like, no chance. That\u2019s crazy. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was kind of always one of those things where I was like, dang, I\u2019m from Texas. It\u2019s the only event in Texas. That would be really, really special to play in the Chevron. And then when the invitation came I was like, all right, cool. We got it. It\u2019s game time. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Hannah Green endured a tough opening round as world No.2 Nelly Korda led the way with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2620,2095,64,11537,63,689,485,29743,303998,676,2105,755,9262,29528,31550,5145,29741,481,303997,21225,2041,2067,677,191165,304001,301647,303999,170850,85,34402,3370,5508,304000,2614,108689,23297,87670],"class_list":{"0":"post-627156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-augusta-national-inc","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-california","15":"tag-career-grand-slam","16":"tag-eight-strong-australian-contingent","17":"tag-final-round","18":"tag-getty-images-inc","19":"tag-golf","20":"tag-golf-course","21":"tag-grace-kim","22":"tag-home-soil","23":"tag-houston","24":"tag-ladies-professional-golf-association","25":"tag-los-angeles","26":"tag-min-woo","27":"tag-nelly-korda","28":"tag-north-america","29":"tag-northern-america","30":"tag-oceania","31":"tag-patty-tavatanakit","32":"tag-reporters-post-round","33":"tag-robyn-choi","34":"tag-seven-foot-slider","35":"tag-somi-lee","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-steph-kyriacou","38":"tag-texas","39":"tag-tough-opening","40":"tag-two-shot-buffer","41":"tag-united-states-of-america","42":"tag-university-of-texas","43":"tag-wrist-injury","44":"tag-young-star"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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