Nelly Korda She is the undisputed number one in world golf. However, this Thursday, for the first round of the US Open Women’s Championship which is played at the Lancaster Country Club, in Pennsylvania, the American lived a nightmare. On the par 3 12th hole she committed a seven-fold! bogey that left her forced to have a miraculous second round to make it through the qualifying cut and thus be able to take the field on Saturday and Sunday.
Korda finished the day with 10 strokes over par and tied for 140th position in the classification, eleven shots behind the five leaders, the French Adela Cernousek – an amateur and another great news of the day -, the Thai Wichanee Meechai, the American Andrea Lee, Japanese Yuka Saso and Slovenian Pia Babnik.
After a bogey on her first hole – she started the round from 10 – the world number one, who is the sister of the professional tennis player Sebastián -who will play with Carlos Alcaraz at Roland Garros- and daughter of the legendary Petr -winner of the 1998 Australian Open-, made par on the 11th hole.
The nightmare came on the 12th hole, where she was trapped for more than 20 minutes. It is a very treacherous par 3 that complicated more than one player. In fact, the Colombian Maria Uribe It took nine strokes to complete it. He seemed like a lot, but he ended up being little after Korda’s job.
What happened? At the start he flew over the green and the ball landed in the back bunker. It was bad, but not that bad. The problem is that he hit his second hit on the green and the ball fell towards the stream that runs along the green.
That action was the beginning of the disaster. After dropping across the creek, Korda hit his fourth shot into the water and had to take another drop, a scene reminiscent of Jordan Spieth’s debacle on the 12th hole on Sunday of the 2016 Masters. Korda then hit again for the sixth hole in the water, turning the bad drink into an absolute catastrophe on just his third hole of the day.
After another fall into the water, Korda made his eighth shot from the hole to 11 feet, but missed the putt for a 9 and posted the worst score in golf: a double-digit one, as he finished with a 10. Then the day continued with another five bogeys and just three birdies that did not serve to hide that bad moment.