4 wins from her previous 5 occasions has Australian star Hannah Inexperienced discovering it troublesome to mood her expectations forward of this week’s Chevron Championship in Houston.
Inexperienced continued her excellent type eventually week’s LA Championship, beating South Korean pair Sei Younger Kim and Jin Hee Im in a playoff gap.
The win added to a powerful begin to 2026 for the 29-year-old Perth product, who because the begin of final month has additionally tasted victory on the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship, the Ladies’s Australian Open and the Australian WPGA Championship.
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“I really feel like I’m nonetheless considerably on cloud 9,” Inexperienced stated forward of the primary girls’s main of the season.
“Each time you come to a match, you need to win, you need to have the trophy in your hand, however truly doing it has been very surreal.
“I’m simply going to attempt to trip this wave for so long as doable.
“Coming into this week earlier than final week, I used to be in all probability considering, ‘OK, a top-10 outcome can be actually good’, however now I’m extra hungry to proceed the success that I’ve had to this point.
“I need to win … however I really feel prefer it’s additionally a extremely exhausting job to win back-to-back weeks.
“I did that in Australia (final month), however in all probability (in) a little bit bit completely different subject, not a significant championship, so I need to be sure that regardless that I’m very assured that I’m not getting too forward of myself.
“Staying affected person out there may be what you need to do to win main championships, in order that’s what I’m going to attempt to concentrate on.”
Whereas Inexperienced has made successful a behavior just lately, she hasn’t tasted success in a significant because the 2019 Ladies’s PGA Championship.
“These are the occasions that you just need to peak for,” the world No.5 stated.
“Coming off a win helps me in a means however in all probability places extra eyeballs on me, so I’m hoping that outward consideration doesn’t have an effect on me an excessive amount of.
“I haven’t actually performed my greatest in majors previously, so I’m hoping that I can considerably have a unique method and use this confidence to assist me get by way of these weeks.”
With this week’s occasion being performed at Memorial Park, Inexperienced has sought the recommendation of Australian males’s star Min Woo Lee, who gained final 12 months’s Houston Open on the identical format.
“Min Woo is actually identified for a way far he hits it off the tee, however he says it himself, he’s in all probability not probably the most correct participant, which is sort of considerably like me – I’m not in all probability probably the most correct off the tee,” she stated.
“He stated the fairways are fairly beneficiant. He loves it right here. He loves the group, so I’m hoping folks can come out and cheer for us.”