ANDn one of the sanctuaries of golf in the United States, Riviera, in Los Angeles, Nelly Korda raised another title to the sky that can make room for her stardom. The American and world number 1 won the US Open to reaffirm her overwhelming dominance in 2026 where she has won four titles, including the other Major that has been played, the Chevron, and has placed second on three other occasions. In the eighth tournament she has played, she was eighth. In the entire season, only nine players can say that they have been ahead of her in a tournament.
Korda recovered from Thursday’s slip over the other three days. After signing 73 hits He was seven away from the lead, he shot two 67s on Friday and Saturday to reach the co-leadership and go out to play with all the options in the final round in search of the fourth Major of his career at the age of 27. (Results)
Before heading out to play on Sunday, Korda received a text message from Tiger Woods telling him, “Finish it!” It was one more, although significant, of a positivist therapy that gives him as good results as the grip change that his sister Jessica, a now pregnant golfer, recommended. All week he had been writing messages to himself on the bathroom mirror like, “Whatever happens, happens. Just give it 100 percent.”
And that was the spirit when he saw that with six holes remaining, the Korean In Gee Chun opened a distance of two strokes. Based on pairs, it grew while the rest began to fail. Thus she reached the 17th hole, a par 5, where a three-meter putt allowed her to make the birdie that left her alone leading the US Open with one advantage over the Englishwoman Charley Hull and the Mexican Gaby Lopez. He played the last hole in such an orthodox way that the last putt of less than a meter went in through the back door, but it went in. It had been 13 years since a golfer had won the first two majors of a course.
Julia López Ramírez, the only Spaniard who made the cut of the five who played the second major of the course, She shot 75 in the final round and finished sixtieth. After winning all the American Majors, Korda has the British and the Evian left to complete the women’s Super Grand Slam career – there are five – that only the Australian Karrie Webb has achieved. In addition to being an Olympic champion.
