Maja Stark<\/a> in last year’s US Women’s Open, her best finish in 11 appearances and in a winless 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n“I was just hungry for more,” said Korda. “Last year was just a weird year of not necessarily playing my best, but also when I did, not getting the bounces or just missing by a centimetre here and there.<\/p>\n
“There’s no better rush of emotions than being in the hunt. There’s no better place to be than in the hunt on a back nine on Sunday at a major championship, especially at the Women’s Open.<\/p>\n
“It would have been a lifelong dream, but there’s more chances.”<\/p>\n
The first one comes this week with Stark fighting her nerves by considering the odds for a repeat triumph.<\/p>\n
“I feel a little bit more pressure than I usually do,” she said. “Then I just think what are the odds of winning it again? So that just takes the pressure away.”<\/p>\n
Stark found the seeking more satisfying than the having when it came to the trophy.<\/p>\n
“I did kind of want to let it go. It’s weird,” Stark said. “It was fun to have it, but it’s more fun to play for it than to have it, I guess.”<\/p>\n
Korda became the first US woman to qualify for this year’s Solheim Cup team on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Getting to represent my country is always such a huge honour,” said Korda. “I’m just really excited to tee it up.”<\/p>\n
Korda inspires Jeeno<\/p>\n
Jeeno is packing her patience and awaiting her moment to attack at a US Open layout known for deep rough and lightning-fast greens.<\/p>\n
“If you keep really patient and wait until the time (is) coming and then you take those opportunities, it’s a good advantage for being in the US Open,” Jeeno said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have to do anything different because when you change your routine, that’s when you change your mindset. We just want to make things the same.”<\/p>\n
Jeeno says seeing Korda’s tough practice efforts is inspiring.<\/p>\n
“She’s number one in the world, definitely she’s going to work hard,” Jeeno said. “It just really inspires me to see her doing what she’s doing right now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-ranked Nelly Korda chases a lifelong dream and Thailand’s second-ranked Jeeno Thitikul seeks her first major title when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621184","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=621184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}