{"id":605610,"date":"2026-04-25T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:06:17","slug":"chevron-championship-nelly-korda-leads-by-six-shots-after-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605610\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Championship: Nelly Korda leads by six shots after second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American amateur Farah O&#8217;Keefe also posted a bogey-free 69 to move to seven under, putting her in a tie for third with compatriot Ryann O&#8217;Toole and South Korea&#8217;s Ina Yoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Korda has started the year in good form having won the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions before claiming three straight runner-up finishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won this event in 2024 at The Club at Carlton Woods, which is also in Houston, while 26-year-old Tavatanakit won in 2021 in California, when the event was named the ANA Inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 66 Tavatanakit said: &#8220;Chasing, leading, whatever &#8211; I feel like I&#8217;m just glad I have this opportunity to be in the mix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her Thai compatriot Jeeno Thitikul will not feature this weekend as the world number one bogeyed two of her last five holes to miss the cut by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Mimi Rhodes also missed out after following up Thursday&#8217;s round of three-under 69 with a six-over 78, carding three bogeys and a double-bogey in her last five holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American amateur Farah O&#8217;Keefe also posted a bogey-free 69 to move to seven under, putting her in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-605610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}