American world primary Nelly Korda equalled an LPGA report by profitable her fifth event in a row as she claimed the primary ladies’s main of the yr on the Chevron Championship in Texas.
Korda, 25, began the ultimate spherical one shot behind the chief, South Korea’s Ryu Hae-ran.
However her three-under par on a gusty course noticed her end on 13 underneath to win by two photographs.
It’s the second main of her profession.
Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2005) are the one different gamers to have received 5 consecutive LPGA occasions.
Korda completed in model too, with a birdie on the final gap, and admitted: “That again 9 felt just like the longest again 9 of my whole life.
“It was a bit of little bit of a grind on the again 9, however I am joyful to get the win.
“I used to be undoubtedly beginning to really feel it on the again 9, simply the nerves setting in. It is a main. It is every thing that I’ve all the time wished as a bit of woman, to elevate that main trophy.
“As I stated, I can lastly breathe now and simply benefit from the second as a result of I used to be undoubtedly actually nervous. I really feel sick to my abdomen.”
A late surge from Sweden’s Maja Stark helped her end second on 11 underneath, whereas American Lauren Coughlin – who shot the most effective spherical of the day with a four-under 68 – ending joint third on 10 underneath alongside Canada’s Brooke Henderson.
Ryu’s spherical of 74 meant she completed fifth.
English trio Georgia Corridor, Charley Hull and Lottie Woad – who received the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner earlier this month – all ended the event with a share of twenty third place, on one underneath.
Northern Eire’s Stephanie Meadow was a shot additional again.
