US Girls’s Open golf 2025: Nelly Korda vows to embrace stress in seek for long-awaited title | Golf Information

Nelly Korda is able to benefit from the stress as she resumes her bid to win a primary US Girls’s Open title in Wisconsin this week. 

The world No 1, who’s but to win on the LPGA Tour thus far this season, missed the minimize within the main final 12 months, along with her greatest efficiency coming in 2022 when she completed tied-eighth.

Yuka Saso returns as defending US Girls’s Open champion this week after her three-shot victory over Hinako Shibuno in final 12 months’s event.

“I do not attempt and give it some thought,” mentioned Korda of the stress to discover a breakthrough.

“Undoubtedly while you’re a higher-ranked participant otherwise you’re extra widespread there may be extra stress on you simply from the skin perspective relating to media, followers popping out to observe you play.

“If you wish to really feel it, you’ll really feel it, however I feel what’s actually essential is simply form of sticking to your recreation plan and being actually centered on what you are doing current time, and that is actually helped me.”

The 26-year-old had received six of her final seven occasions on the time of getting into the US Girls’s Open final 12 months, earlier than producing an opening-round 80 on her solution to lacking the weekend at Lancaster Nation Membership.

This 12 months she is coming off a tied-fifth end on the Mizuho Americas Open, whereas additionally main the LPGA with a mean rating of 68.88 regardless of her winless begin to the 12 months.

“I feel the extra you are put in under-pressure moments and the extra you are in rivalry, you study extra about your self and easy methods to deal with these conditions,” Korda mentioned.

“Yearly one thing has examined me, and yearly I study slightly bit extra about myself and easy methods to deal with myself in some conditions. So yeah, I feel it is all about placing your self into that place.

“On the finish of the day, you are the one which put your self there, and it’s a must to be grateful that you’re in that spot, and also you form of have to simply get pleasure from even the stress.”

Korda has notably missed the minimize in three of the final 5 years on the US Girls’s Open, and is braced for one more style of what she believes is “the most important take a look at in golf”.

“It positively has examined me so much,” she added. “I adore it. On the finish of the day, for this reason we do what we do, is to play these golf programs in these circumstances, to check our video games in each facet.”

Korda shall be partnered by Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson in Thursday’s opening spherical as she seeks her breakthrough.

“It is massive,” mentioned Korda. “Some weeks it is a lot simpler to be affected person than others. It simply relies on form of the mindset and the way you are feeling mentally.

“But it surely performs a very massive function. Typically you will get forward of your self, and as I’ve mentioned previously, staying within the second is de facto, actually essential for me.”

How can I watch dwell on Sky Sports activities?

Sky Sports activities has prolonged protection from the US Girls’s Open, with the dwell motion getting underneath approach at 5pm on Thursday on Sky Sports activities Combine and 11pm on Sky Sports activities Golf.

The identical timings apply for the second spherical, earlier than Saturday’s motion is dwell from 6pm on Sky Sports activities Combine. Protection of Sunday’s ultimate spherical begins at 7pm on the identical channel.

Every day one-hour highlights shall be out there on Sky Sports activities Golf.

Watch the US Girls’s Open dwell on Sky Sports activities from 5pm on Thursday. Get Sky Sports activities or stream no contract on NOW.