Remarkable, amazing, inspiring, historic. Those are the words her fellow competitors reserve for Korda, and starting tonight (Australian time), she’ll have a chance to add a new chapter to her best year as a professional.
Though amateurs play for much lower stakes than Henderson faces, the feelings of pressure and stress you experience on the golf course are still real. And Henderson’s strategy of shifting perspective can work for you, too.
Ahead of a consequential year – with not only the five majors but another Solheim Cup and the Olympics – here are five bold predictions for the season.
Since 2016, the player who has won the LPGA’s first event of the season did not win again that year. The Canadian has one chance left to break that streak.
This is the first time the 24-year-old Canadian has won in about a year; her last win was at the 2021 Hugel-Air Premia LA Open. Since that win, she’s made two big changes in her game. One was forced.
During the LPGA’s off-season, Kang made a point of working on her cold-weather game, in part because she wants to contend at an AIG Women’s British Open.
KPMG Performance Insights, a new technology platform developed in partnership with the LPGA, will launch at this week’s Women’s PGA Championship and immediately be implemented on the LPGA Tour.