MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Nelly Korda found the perfect tonic for the week after the biggest win of her career. The U.S. Women\u2019s Open champion is playing with good friend Olivia Cowan of Germany in the Dow Championship, two shots out of the lead Friday held by Polly Mack and Celine Borge.<\/p>\n
The final two days at Midland Country Club also includes Juli Inkster, the 66-year-old Hall of Famer who became the oldest player to make the cut when she teamed with 27-year-old Angel Yin for a 68 in fourballs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy I played,\u201d said Inkster, born 10 years after the LPGA was founded. \u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got to put yourself out there and I felt like I did that this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mack and Borge were among the late starters and posted a 60 to reach 12-under 128 and zoom past the Japanese duo of Ayaka Furue and Yuna Nishimura (61).<\/p>\n
Korda and Cowan shot 60 to finish two shots behind, with Korda doing most of the damage and Cowan stepping in for a 20-foot birdie putt on their final hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just wanted to go out and have some fun. That\u2019s when we play our best,\u201d Korda said. \u201cLast week was a great week. This is the perfect week to back up that week. It\u2019s just a little more relaxed. It\u2019s been a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Korda said there wasn\u2019t a lot of golf talk, mostly trying to finish to get lunch and head for their favorite coffee shop.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Women\u2019s Open at Riviera was her fourth win of the year, and fourth career major, solidifying her perch atop women\u2019s golf. She played the part most of the second round in fourballs with several birdie putts.<\/p>\n
\u201cNelly made a lot of putts today,\u201d Cowan said. \u201cI felt like I needed to make the last one.\u201d<\/p>\n
JoAnne Carner holds the LPGA record for individual events, making the cut in 2004 at age 64. The Dow Championship counts as official, so Inkster goes into the record book as the oldest.<\/p>\n
This also could be a big week for Cowan, who would get a two-year exemption on the LPGA if she and Korda were to win.<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Nelly Korda found the perfect tonic for the week after the biggest win of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-733226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}