American Nelly Korda gained the Chevron Championship by two pictures in Texas to safe her second main title and a outstanding fifth straight event win.
The 25-year-old’s victory at The Woodlands noticed her tie the report for many consecutive LPGA wins, with Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) the one different girls to realize the feat.
Korda, who started the ultimate spherical of this 12 months’s first main one stroke behind South Korean chief Haeran Ryu alongside Canada’s Brooke Henderson, carded a last spherical 69 in Houston to complete on 13 below for the event.
Sweden’s Maja Stark completed two pictures additional again in second after a closing spherical of 69 and American Lauren Coughlin and Henderson had been tied in third place on 10 below, whereas Ryu carded a two-over-par 74 to complete fifth.
When requested how she was in a position to put collectively 5 wins in 5 consecutive tournaments, Korda, who made 5 birdies and two bogeys on the ultimate spherical, mentioned: “I don’t know, however I can lastly breathe now.
“That again 9 felt just like the longest again 9 of my total life. It was a little bit little bit of a grind on the again 9, however I’m pleased to get the win.
“I used to be undoubtedly beginning to really feel it on the again 9, simply the nerves setting in. It’s a significant. It’s all the pieces that I’ve at all times wished as a little bit lady, to raise that main trophy.
“As I mentioned, I can lastly breathe now and simply benefit from the second as a result of I used to be undoubtedly actually nervous. I really feel sick to my abdomen.”
The world No 1 is the daughter of former Czech tennis participant Petr Korda, who gained the Australian Open males’s singles title in 1988.
Her first main win got here on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship in 2021 and she or he secured her first title of the 12 months, the LPGA Drive On Championship, in January.
She then took a seven-week break and returned to win three occasions within the area of three weeks, together with beating Eire’s Leona Maguire within the last of the T-Cell Match Play.