American Nelly Korda leads the Chevron Championship – the first women’s major of the year – by two strokes after posting a sublime seven-under-par 65 in the first round.<\/p>\n
The two-time major winner, who claimed this title in 2024, looked back to her imperious best in a bogey-free round at Houston’s Memorial Park Golf Course. <\/p>\n
“The wind was picking up here and there,” said Korda. “Through the trees it was definitely gusting so I had to lock in on a couple of yardages here and there.<\/p>\n
“Overall, I just felt really good, though, out there.”<\/p>\n
England’s Mimi Rhodes, who won three times during last season’s Ladies European Tour, is fours shots off the top on her tournament debut.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old had five birdies and two bogeys in an impressive 69 and is one of 10 players on three under par.<\/p>\n
“I felt ready,” said Rhodes. “Getting here on Sunday, it was probably a benefit to me that I was able to see the course a bit more.<\/p>\n
“I did as much prep as I could and felt comfortable coming into this round. It was more about coming in and being confident around there, which I thought I did.”<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Somi Lee and Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit, who won this tournament in 2021 when it was in California, both carded 67s and are joint second on five under.<\/p>\n
England’s Charley Hull, who is fourth in the women’s world rankings, is on level par following a round that included three birdies and three bogeys.<\/p>\n
World number one Jeeno Thitikul opened with a 74 and at two over par is nine shots off the lead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Nelly Korda leads the Chevron Championship – the first women’s major of the year – by two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}