Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in women's golf, had a shocker of a start in the U.S. Women's Open when she made a 10 on her third hole and wound up with an 80, matching her worst score as a professional.
was not even three holes into the U.S. Women's Open when she dropped to a crouch and bowed her head in disbelief after her third straight shot -- all of them from inside 70 feet away -- tumbled into a stream.It didn't get much better from there.
Korda said she had a leaf under her golf ball, and the bunker shot came out a little hot and rolled -- and rolled -- past the front pin and off the false front and then disappeared into the stream. She got it right the third time, only to miss an 8-foot putt and take septuple-bogey 10. Korda walked off the green, removed her visor and placed her hand over her forehead for a few seconds, then headed to the 13th tee.
The only higher rounds in her career were 81s -- one at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship when she was 15, the other at the 2013 U.S. Women's Open at age 14. Korda was between 7-iron and 6-iron and took the stronger club, then moved back one length of the club.
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