World No. 1 Nelly Corda is closing in on her sixth LPGA Tour win in seven begins after taking a two-shot lead into the ultimate spherical of the Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey.
Corda carded a seven-under 65 to maneuver to 13 below and two forward of Australia’s Hannah Inexperienced, who set the match file with a superb nine-under 63 at Liberty Nationwide Golf Membership.
After seeing Rose Zhang snap her file five-game successful streak on the Cognizant Founders Cup final week, Korda carded seven birdies in a bogey-free spherical to bolster her hopes of a successful comeback.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the Cognizant Founders Cup at Wildfire Golf Membership.
Corda posted three birdies in a front-nine 33 and added one other on the par-five tenth, then posted three extra in a four-hole stretch from the thirteenth to leap to the highest of the leaderboard.
“A very stable day of golf on the tee, on the inexperienced and within the recreation,” Korda mentioned. “He took dangers the place he might.”
Inexperienced, whose two wins make her the one a number of winner on tour this 12 months, took benefit of calm and dry morning situations to shut out her spherical with six birdies in eight holes to safe a Sunday pairing with Korda.
“Yeah, it felt very easy,” Inexperienced mentioned. “I assume I hit 17 greens and missed a number of fairways, however I truly hit actually shut, so it was very nice to not actually stress myself out attempting to make pars in the present day. But it surely was like autopilot for some time which is very nice, so now I am hoping to combat for Sunday.”
Earlier this season, Corda received 5 straight tournaments, tying the file shared by Corridor of Famers Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05), earlier than ending seventh in her final begin.
Ayaka Furuet and Gabriela Ruffels share third place at 10 below, forward of Sofia Popova, Jennifer Kupcho and Pajari Ananarukarn, whereas England’s Charlie Hull is out of rivalry after a three-over 75 dropped her to 51st .
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