The world No. 1 and prohibitive favorite at Lancaster Country Club made a septuple-bogey 10 at the par-3 12th, dooming her first round.
Nelly Korda, favored to win the U.S. Women's Open, ranked near the bottom of the leader board after Round 1. LANCASTER, Pa. — Nelly Korda crouched by the drop area at No. 12, placed her head in her hands and paused to gather her wits after she deposited a third shot in the water, derailing her opening round at the U.S. Women’s Open.
Korda began her round with a bogey at the par-4 10th, pulling a putt from inside 14 feet to roughly 20 inches. Then she had a nearly half an hour wait before her group was able to tee off at No. 12, ranked the most difficult hole at the previous U.S. Women’s Open held at Lancaster Country Club in 2015.Korda’s tee ball found a bunker behind the 161-yard hole. Her second shot from the sand failed to hold the green, rolling into the water guarding the front of the undulating putting surface.
By the afternoon wave Thursday, No. 12 had rendered 20 scores of double bogey or worse. The next hardest hole by that metric was the par-4 fourth, which had yielded eight double bogeys or worse.“It was tough to watch,” said Megan Khang , one of Korda’s closest friends on the LPGA Tour, who played in the same group along with Japan’s Nasa Hataoka .
“I mean, not a lot of positive thoughts, honestly,” Korda said. “Just honestly, I just didn’t play well today. I didn’t hit it good. I found myself in the rough a lot. Making a 10 on a par-3 will definitely not do you any good at U.S. Open. I started off really poorly but played pretty well on the back nine, but overall, yeah, just a bad day at the office.”
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