{"id":625669,"date":"2026-06-07T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:27:08","slug":"us-womens-open-nelly-korda-moves-into-share-of-lead-as-charley-hull-storms-up-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625669\/","title":{"rendered":"US Women&#8217;s Open: Nelly Korda moves into share of lead as Charley Hull storms up leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US Women&#8217;s Open is the second of five majors on the women&#8217;s tour, with Korda having won the first with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c9qdqn18741o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victory at the Chevron Championship in April.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is aiming to win the US Women&#8217;s Open for the first time in her 12th attempt after finishing as joint runner-up in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think last year I really, really wanted it, and the more you want it sometimes, the more you stiffen up and you get a little bit more nervous,&#8221; said Korda, who has recovered from a first-round 73 with two rounds of 67. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I play my best golf when I&#8217;m happy, free Nelly, and I&#8217;m kind of joking around out there. So that&#8217;s kind of the attitude that I&#8217;m going to have tomorrow [Sunday].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First-round leader Jennifer Kupcho is a shot off the lead on five under, along with In-Gee Chun, after they both hit 69s in their third rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t control what anyone else is doing, so I&#8217;m just going to go out there and do my best and see how that matches up with them,&#8221; said American Kupcho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Women&#8217;s Open is the second of five majors on the women&#8217;s tour, with Korda having won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625669","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\/625669","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=625669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}