SAMMAMISH, Wash. – It was a spherical, as Golf Channel analyst Morgan Pressel stated, when all the pieces appeared to go improper on the similar time for Nelly Korda. The World No. 1 started the day in a share of second and ended it packing up her suitcase after a second-round 81 and completed at 6 over for 2 days.
It was a surprising flip of occasions for a participant who carded a gap 69 at Sahalee Nation Membership and regarded primed to contend for a seventh title of 2024 on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.
Korda agreed to speak exterior the scoring space after the spherical however needed to stroll away earlier than answering the primary query to compose herself.
“It’s simply golf not too long ago for me,” she stated via tears. “No phrases for a way I’m enjoying proper now. I’m simply going to go residence and reset.”
Korda bogeyed the primary 4 holes and by no means recovered on the stunning however punishing tree-lined stunner, carding a 6-over 42 on the entrance 9. On the again, it solely obtained worse as she hit her second shot out of bounds from the left tough on the par-4 fifteenth and made double bogey. An emotional Korda regarded on in disbelief as she completed up the outlet.
This marks the primary time Korda has missed three consecutive cuts in her LPGA profession. The 81 ties her highest rating on the LPGA. In some ways, it was a extra surprising day than the ten she carded on the third gap of her U.S. Ladies’s Open.
“Loads went my means in the beginning a part of the 12 months and simply giving it again,” she stated.
The minimize fell at 5 over for the championship. Right here’s a take a look at different notable names who gained’t be round for the weekend at Sahalee:
Nasa Hataoka of Japan hits a tee shot on the twelfth gap in the course of the first spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 20, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
After a difficult-to-stomach disqualification on the ShopRite LPGA Traditional, Hataoka couldn’t recuperate from an opening-round 77 at Sahalee.
Sei Younger Kim of South Korea hits a tee shot on the ninth gap in the course of the second spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 21, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
2020 KPMG Ladies’s PGA champ Kim carded rounds of 76-75.
Andrea Lee of america hits a tee shot on the seventh gap in the course of the first spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 20, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
Only a handful of weeks after Andrea Lee contended on the U.S. Ladies’s Open, she carded rounds of 77-74 to exit early at Sahalee.
Danielle Kang of america hits a chip shot on the twelfth gap in the course of the second spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 21, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
Former KPMG champ Kang’s already powerful 2024 season obtained harder after rounds of 78-74.
Bailey Tardy of america /lopthe eleventh gap in the course of the first spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 20, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
Tardy collected her first LPGA title earlier this season however has missed six cuts since then, taking pictures rounds of 78-76 in Sammamish.
Angela Stanford of america hits a tee shot on the ninth gap in the course of the second spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 21, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
In what’s probably her final begin on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA – enjoying in each single version of the championship since 2001 – Stanford shot 75-84 to overlook the weekend.
Megan Khang of america appears to be like on whereas enjoying the fifteenth gap in the course of the second spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 21, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
Coming into the week No. 16 on the planet, Khang wanted a stable week to maneuver into the highest 15 and qualify for the Paris Olympics. Khang struggled with rounds of 81-76.
Alison Lee of america hits a tee shot on the seventh gap in the course of the second spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Nation Membership on June 21, 2024 in Sammamish, Washington. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
Like Khang, Lee got here into the KPMG No. 18 on the planet. She gained’t be headed to Paris both after rounds of 81-78.
