Both males’s and ladies’s sports activities are at all times looking out for brand new stars to assist fire up curiosity and and entice new followers.
It wasn’t even a few weeks in the past that basketball participant Caitlin Clark paralyzed the US throughout March Insanity and her impact will not cease there. She is ready to vary the WNBA endlessly, as LeBron James himself has predicted.
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One thing related is going on with Nelly Korda in golf, as she is gaining consideration within the sport and is aiming for one thing extra.
The 25-year-old American is the favourite to win the Chevron Championship – previously ANA Inspiration – the primary main of the yr in girls’s golf, which begins this Thursday at The Woodlands (Texas), the match’s dwelling since final yr.
Korda’s absolute dominance within the LPGA Tour – she has 4 victories in her final 4 tournaments – goes again to the instances of Annika Sorenstam and undoubtedly makes her the focal point this week.
The Korda phenomenon
The Korda phenomenon has taken maintain within the sport and if the daughter of Czech tennis participant Petr Korda have been to enter Sunday’s remaining spherical with an opportunity of victory, it’s greater than seemingly that the match’s scores would rival or surpass these of the RBC Heritage, this week’s PGA Tour occasion.
The world primary is trying to win her fifth consecutive title in a serious. Solely Nancy Lopez (1978) and the aforementioned Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) have reached 5 consecutive victories, though the background to all this it how it will assist girls’s golf, whose broadcasting is secondary on U.S. tv in favor of males’s golf.
Curiously, the scores for Clark’s match have been properly forward of these of the Augusta Masters, one thing the media shared with Korda within the press room, and he or she made a vindication for ladies’s sport: “We have to be on tv”.
Concerning her present type, she admitted: “Clearly with the streak I’ve had, possibly there are extra eyes on me, and I am at all times very grateful as a result of I understand how quick this will go.”
Are we trying on the ‘unicorn’ that golf hasn’t seen since Tiger Woods? In accordance with Lydia Ko, in her 11 years on the LPGA she had not seen something like this and joked: “The remainder of us are taking part in for second place”.
One thing is definitely altering in girls’s golf. The Chevron prize purse this yr has elevated from $5.2 million to $7.9 million, and the winner earned $1.2 million.
