{"id":722216,"date":"2026-06-08T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:04:10","slug":"nelly-korda-wins-us-womens-open-title-by-one-stroke-ahead-of-charley-hull-and-gaby-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722216\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda wins US Women’s Open title by one stroke ahead of Charley Hull and Gaby Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelly Korda has won the US Women’s Open for her second consecutive major victory, holding off Charley Hull and Gaby Lopez by one shot in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

It is Korda’s first US Open win and the fourth major triumph of her career.<\/p>\n

The American claimed victory with a steady 2-under-par 69 in the final round, but only after her second putt on the 18th green caught the left edge and toured half the circumference of the hole before dropping.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked Korda put her hand over her open mouth in disbelief before finally laughing at her last shot.<\/p>\n

She finished the tournament at 8-under after sharing the lead with multiple competitors throughout the windy finale of the first Women’s Open held at 100-year-old Riviera.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’m in a dream,” Korda said after her win.<\/p>\n

“I just can’t even explain how much this means to me with all of you here cheering me on.”<\/p>\n

\"Nelly<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda iced her victory with a nervous final putt. (Getty Images: Sean M Haffey)<\/p>\n

Korda made a 9-foot birdie putt on the 17th to break out of a four-way tie for the lead with Mexican Lopez, the hard-charging Englishwoman Hull and three-time major champion In Gee Chun.<\/p>\n

Chun (70) finished fourth \u200cat 6-under and fellow South Korean Sei Young Kim (72) was fifth at 5-under.<\/p>\n

\u200cChun earlier needed a birdie at the final hole to catch Korda, but missed an 8-foot par putt to finish with her third bogey over the last seven holes. She also had four birdies.<\/p>\n

Korda calmly two-putted for par on the 18th hole, claiming the $US2.5 million ($3.55 million) winner’s share of this Open’s record $US12.5 million ($17.7 million) purse.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old won The Chevron Championship in April.<\/p>\n

Korda had three victories and as many second-place finishes in her first seven starts of a spectacular season after going winless in 2025.<\/p>\n

After a rough opening-round 73 at Riviera, she put together back-to-back 67s to take a share of the lead into the final round.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Maja Stark of Sweden shot 71 to finish in a six-way tie for eighth at 2-under.<\/p>\n

Grace Kim and Karis Davidson were the best-placed Australians, both finishing tied for 22nd position on 2-over.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda has won the US Women’s Open for her second consecutive major victory, holding off Charley Hull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,36444,39132,755,481,26582,21225,85,1055,2489,204890],"class_list":["post-722216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charley-hull","tag-gaby-lopez","tag-golf","tag-los-angeles","tag-major","tag-nelly-korda","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-womens-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722216","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=722216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}