The sector for the Olympic ladies’s golf competitors can be finalized after this week’s KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.
Nelly Korda has lengthy been a lock to signify the U.S. and defend the gold medal she gained in Tokyo in 2021.
This yr’s event, held Aug. 7-10, can be contested at Le Golf Nationwide in France, and each the event and venue have Korda excited.
“Representing my nation and attending to compete within the Olympics is such an unbelievable alternative,” she stated Tuesday on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship. “I’m simply tremendous excited to get there and even simply to play that golf course. I acquired to look at it in [2018] Ryder Cup. To have the ability to play such superb golf programs like we do these days can be such a deal with.”
Talking of treats.
“I’ve by no means been to Paris, and the one factor I’m actually trying ahead to is the croissants most likely on each nook,” Korda stated. “I really like bakeries and baked items, in order that’s one factor I’m actually trying ahead to.”
Till then, there are a few majors on the menu, together with this week at Sahalee Nation Membership in Sammamish, Washington.
Korda gained this championship at Atlanta Athletic Membership for her first main title in 2021. She claimed main No. 2 earlier this season on the Chevron Championship – certainly one of six victories on the yr.
The clear-cut world No. 1, nevertheless, is coming off back-to-back missed cuts, first on the U.S. Ladies’s Open and once more ultimately week’s Meijer LPGA Basic.
Korda views these because the inevitable ebbs.
“I’m going to undergo these conditions so many occasions the place I really feel like I’m taking part in rather well and I’ll undergo a little bit lull the place golf is the toughest factor in my life proper now,” she stated. “In order that’s I really feel like what grows myself as an individual and what makes me respect the game a lot and makes me respect the wins and the highs and good pictures, the crowds on the market as nicely.”
As for this week, at a decent and tree-lined Sahalee, Korda stated she nonetheless plans on taking part in aggressively – when warranted. Korda admitted that she doesn’t wish to “apply at occasions,” so she spends her early-week time plotting inexperienced lights and yellow lights, figuring out full nicely that, in the end, she’ll should adapt to regardless of the spherical presents.
She had to do this a couple of weeks in the past at Lancaster Nation Membership, the place she made a ten on her third gap of the U.S. Ladies’s Open. Korda stated forward of the Meijer occasion that the battle she displayed thereafter – although she didn’t make the minimize – made her extra proud than any of her wins in ’24.
Given all she has completed, and coming off her two worst outcomes of the season, the highlight can be shiny this week. It’s one thing she welcomes.
“I really feel like stress is privilege, and that’s one thing that you simply’re the one one that may type of management that. You may hearken to the skin voices, however on the finish of the day, when you could have stress, you may take it in a optimistic method that you’re doing good and taking part in nicely,” Korda stated.
“I’m simply going to remain in my bubble this week and exit and attempt to execute my pictures, be assured in what I’ve. This golf course is already arduous sufficient, and if I’m going to place extra stress on myself, then I feel it’s simply going to make it even tougher this week.”
