World number one Nelly Korda won her first US Women’s Open title, pipping England’s Charley Hull to victory by a single shot.<\/p>\n
American Korda made a crucial birdie on the 17th hole as she posted a two-under-par 69 to finish eight under at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
It is the fourth major win of the 27-year-old’s career and her second consecutive victory of the season, having reclaimed the Chevron Championship title in April.<\/p>\n
Hull, who was seven strokes behind at the halfway mark, followed her third-round 65 with a four-under-par 67 in the fourth to equal the lowest 36-hole total in US Women’s Open history, but finished seven under.<\/p>\n
She has now placed as runner-up at a major five times in her career: four times since the start of 2023 and twice in her past three tournaments.<\/p>\n
Hull was tied alongside Mexico’s Gaby Lopez in second, with South Korea’s In-Gee Chun a shot further back and Sei-Young Kim – level with Korda at the top of the leaderboard after three rounds – five under. <\/p>\n
“It’s just frustrating,” said Hull. “Another second place. It’s pretty annoying, but I played well the last day.<\/p>\n
“Obviously missed a couple of putts on the back nine, but it was quite windy and I hit the ball fantastic, so fair play to Nelly Korda for back-to-back wins.”<\/p>\n
Korda secured the win with a 34-inch par putt on the 18th hole, with the ball circling around the back lip before dropping in.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a dream to win here,” said Korda. “The golf course holds so much history and to have my name alongside so many great champions is a dream come true.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Nelly Korda won her first US Women’s Open title, pipping England’s Charley Hull to victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-691299","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\/691299","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=691299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}