The oldest major championship title and the largest handbag in professional women’s golf will be at stake when the US US Women’s T-shirts on Thursday at Erin Hills Club in Erin, Wisconsin.
This is the first time that ERIN HILLS has organized the Women’s US OPEN, and the known route for its fairways and wavy green vegetables that have been created by a glacier there are figures to provide one of the most difficult tests of the season for the best golfers in the world.
“He tests every game of your match,” said double major champion Nelly Korda on Tuesday. “It’s very demanding. It’s so fast. Even if you think you’ve struck it well, you can expire when you see it stop. I would say that even time plays a big role with the blows here, with the putts.”
Here are some of the major scenarios of the second major championship of the season:
Can Nelly start?
Golfer No. 1 in the world Scottie Scheffler needed a few months to go before winning the PGA Tour twice this season, including his third major in the PGA championship.
It was the same kind of season for the Golfer No. 1 in the world Nelly Korda during the LPGA tour. A year ago, Korda had already won six times before the second major of the season.
This year, she has not yet launched a trophy in seven departures.
“Yeah, it was a very interesting year for me,” Korda said on Tuesday. “I certainly had a little good and a little trouble. A kind of mixture in the kind of each event in which I played. I would say that patience is what I learned and to go home and to block and practice hard.”
It’s not like Korda had not played well this season. She had a top 25 in all departures except one, notably the finalist of the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions during the opening of the season. She finished fifth from her last departure at the Mizuho America Open.
Korda ranks second in the LPGA tour in cerebral vascular accidents: total (2.40) and outside the TEE (1.03) and is ninth in green tee (1.59). It also ranks in the top 25 of the approach (0.65) and the implementation (0.86).
She will look for a better result in the United States Open. She missed three cuts, equality for the eighth and equality for 64th in her last five departures. Last year at the Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Korda carded a 10 on the 12th hole per-3, his third hole in the first round. She carded one 10 out of 80.
Korda rebounded to publish a 70 peer 70 in the second round, but still missed the cup.
“Oh, yes, a lot of ups and downs,” said Korda. “I mean, it’s the biggest golf game test. He certainly tested me a lot. I love it.”
Korda will play the first two laps with Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson in England. They will repercuss the number 1 to 2:25 p.m. Thursday and the n ° 10 to 8:40 am Friday.
“In the end, this is why we do what we do is play these golf courses in these conditions, to test our games in all aspects,” Korda said. “Not just our games, our mind [strength]Also. I appreciate it and I am delighted to see what this week will bring. “”
Ko Esweling Career Grand Slam
Lydia Ko can become the eighth golfer in the history of the LPGA to finish the big career chelem if she wins the open women in her 14th test. She has a pair of first 10 in the tournament and missed her first cup last year.
Only 27 years old, Ko has already won three major championship victories at the 2015 Evian championship, at the 2016 Chevron championship and at 2024 Women’s British Open.
Ko plays with the defense of the American women’s champion Yuka Saso and the amateur Rianne Malixi in the first two laps. They will start the TEE n ° 1 to 8:40 a.m. HE Thursday and the n ° 10 to 2:25 p.m. Friday.
“I think that as long as I play, it’s always good to have a goal, so that when I work on things, I always go forward and do not try to think:” Oh, do I have this, so who cares? “” Said Ko. “So it’s just to stay more motivated. I hope no, but even if I never win an open woman in the United States, I don’t think I’m going to wake up from my sleep and go,” I never won. “”
Louise Suggs, Mickey Wright, Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster, Karrie Webb, Annika Sorenstam and Inbee Park won four different majors of their careers. Webb is the only one to have won different majors in the realization of the Grand Slam in Super-Carrier.
Anna Nordqvist of Sweden, which won the 2009 PGA Women’s Championship, the 2017 Evian championship and 2021 Women’s British Open, can also end the Grand Chelem career this week.
Saso tri -corpora
Saso will try to become the seventh golfer to win the national championship three times.
Betsy Rawls (1951, 1953, 1957, 1960) and Wright (1958, 1959, 1961, 1964) finished first at the Open of American women four times, while Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948, 1950, 1954), Susie Maxwell Berning (1968 ,, 1950, Hollis Stacy (1977, 1978, 1984) and Pority, 1995, 1997 (1977, 1978, 1984) and Pority, 1995, 1997 (1977, 1978, 1984) and Porine, 1995, 1995, 1977, 1978, 1984) and Porine, 1995, 1995. 1996, 2006) won three times.
“I could call myself a double major champion, and better than that, twice American women’s champion,” said Saso about victory last year. “I think it’s a big tournament to have next to my name, and, I don’t know, maybe because I dreamed of winning this, and winning it twice is much better.”
Saso is already the only golfer to capture the Harton S. Semple trophy while representing two different countries. When Saso defeated NASA Hataoka in the third hole in a series of American women’s open female openings at the San Francisco Olympic Club, she represented the Philippines, where she was born.
Last year, Saso played for Japan, her father’s homeland when she beat Hinako Shibo-Japan by three strokes with a total of 72 holes of 4-276.
Saso had a double citizenship in the two countries before renouncing his Philippine citizenship in 2022 under the law of Japanese nationality, which she had to do before being 22 years old.
Erin Hills is a big course
The Erin Hills golf course, located about 35 miles north-west of Milwaukee, is a Par-72 route that will play 6,829 yards. This is the second longest lesson in the LPGA tour so far this season.
Erin Hills welcomed the 2017 US Open, which Brooks Koepka won with a total of 72 holes of 16-272.
He is not to play so easily this week so easily, especially if the wind blows. There is a storm chance on Friday with winds from 10 to 20 MPH. Forecasts require a sunny sky and winds from 5 to 10 MPH on weekends.
“It is definitely a very big course,” said US US Wallen Champion Allisen Corpuz. “I struck many more hybrids and wood than I would have liked in the Greens [during Monday’s practice round]. I think any adult, the ball is always really important. I especially think with green complexes here [and] Lots of streams, just a few tight fairways that will certainly be essential here. “”
Erin Hills has no risk of water, but there are 132 bunkers of sand and a fetuque of 3½ inches, which will make things delicate.
“It is very demanding the tee with all the bunkers,” said Korda. “The bunkers are not easy. Sometimes you don’t even have a position in them because they are so small. Then, the shots in the Greens and also the Greens. Just a good overall test of your whole game.”
The United States Golf Association has alternative T-shirts available if the wind does not blow or if the route is wet.
“We also keep an eye on firmness, and obviously speed, wet conditions, very windy conditions,” said Shannon Rouillard, director of the USGA championships. “It is really important that the test remains relative and appropriate to the conditions we are going to face, whether they are wet or if we will experience greater wind conditions.”
