World primary Nelly Korda matched an LPGA document along with her fifth consecutive victory on Sunday, successful the Chevron Championship for her second main crown and thirteenth profession tour title.
The 2-stroke overcome Sweden’s Maja Stark stretched Korda’s season win streak to 5 titles in 5 begins to equal the LPGA document set by American Nancy Lopez in 1978 and matched by Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam from 2004-05.
The 25-year-old American fired a three-under par 69 within the closing spherical to complete on 13-under 275 after 72 holes at Carlton Woods in suburban Houston to say the AU$1.8 million high prize within the first ladies’s main event of the season.
Stark was second on 277 after a closing 69 adopted by American Lauren Coughlin and Canada’s Brooke Henderson sharing third on 278 and South Korean Ryu Hae-ran fifth on 279 after closing on 74.
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“That felt just like the longest again 9 of my whole life … however joyful to get the win,” Korda informed NBC.
“It’s every little thing I’ve all the time wished since I used to be a bit of lady — to carry that main trophy.”
Korda, the daughter of former Czech tennis star Petr Korda, gained her solely prior main crown on the 2021 Ladies’s PGA Championship whereas additionally capturing a gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics.
This 12 months, Korda additionally gained January’s Drive On Championship, final month’s Seri Pak and Ford championships and the LPGA Match Play earlier this month.