Nelly Korda can rewrite the narrative of 2025 in the final rounds of the season

Naples, Fla. – Nelly Korda walked this course on Thursday and was frustrated and went straight to that practice of putting on the green.

A day of heated edges and a season of being on the other side of the “good line” of golf will have these results. Korda hit the ball during the first round of the CME Group Tour Championship but finished the day seven shots behind the leader SOMI Lee.

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Korda came to this practice to put on the green to work on his anxiety, but he didn’t last long. World 2. 2 rolled the ball into the hole a few times and came out.

It was what was needed.

“I went to the putting green for five minutes and saw some balls actually go in the hole, which was cool,” Korda said Friday at Tiburon Golf Club.

He arrived at Tee Three on Friday morning with a lot of ground to cover. In a season defined by what she did, Korda provided a stirring reminder that, when everything clicks, she is a dominant force in women’s golf.

Korda opened with back-to-back birdies and added one at the same time before dropping the shot at the seventh. But he raised again with three straight birdies and closed the round with three birdies on his last three holes to shoot the second round, eight under 64 and take the clear festival – Straight World – World of marks can go in 1 hour

Korda hit all 14 fairways, hit 16 of 16 greens in regulation and made 26 putts around the Greg designed course. Korda’s frustrated burnout on Thursday was replaced by birdie cheers from fans in Naples.

Friday’s round was one where all of Korda’s tweaks came together to deliver a golf show.

He has always worked on keeping things simple. That can be difficult after a frustrating cycle at the end of a frustrating season. But Korda remained in his usual place and did not admit that the near Thursday is to remember to remove him from the species. Korda changed irons last week, going to the larger and more forgiving taylormade P7cbs in the 6-PW. Korda, one of the best putters in the world, was looking for more spin on his irons after the season of his shots, thinking they would hit what he thought would be the green.

“The irons were coming in a little slower and softer, which I’ve been playing well this year, and I’ve been getting the ball where I want,” Korda said Friday. “I just saw a lot less release than I usually have.

“With a different change in the conditions on the golf course, it means how it is. Last year, so I let it go a little bit. I really like this mountain.”

Korda has been working on the top of his golf swing this year. It’s hard to get too technical while trying to lift a medal. But a few weeks away from Korda taking a break from the neck incident also allowed him to work on his depth without worrying about the numbers on the card.

That work seems to have paid off.

“I think you work on something every year,” Korda said. “It’s just a type of golf. I mean, when you play for weeks in a row in different types of conditions, for me, because I play with a lot of spirit, when I work with a creative tendency, which is good about golf and it’s frustrating.”

“Frustrating” is the word that has come out of Korda’s pressures this season, especially at the back as he is trying to win the year. His stats are similar to his outstanding 2024 season where he won seven times, including five starts in a row. You just finished a – nci here again slowly there. The Tee-to-Green portion of his game has always been top-tier. He is second in the LPGA in strokes gained: Total, first on The Tee with 17. His play on the green has dropped a touch from 2024 (0.42 strokes gained to 0.09) but his putting has been 2021 in 2024 to 2025).

To hear Korda tell it (and tell it and tell it), the golf gods have never been on his side this year. Sometimes it’s not just your cycle, your tournament, your year.

“I’m very competitive with what I want to do on Sunday when I lift the medal. Everyone in this camp wants to do it,” said Korda last week. “It’s been an amazing year, but I can’t compare this year to last year.

Asked for a tournament earlier in the year when the stats said one thing and the win column said another, Korda smiled and laughed and laughed at the occasional thought because he’s both a golfer. Those two things always go hand in hand when the bounces don’t go your way.

But frustration and disappointment are different. Korda feels that the former may be too much. But the world No. 2 You understand that in the game you win and lose in small efforts, sometimes the smallest thing can change everything.

“It’s honestly a fine line,” Korda said Wednesday. “It comes down to some shots. It’s like putting the lips out and you don’t get your momentum. It’s such a fine line when it comes to golf. Obviously I’d like to if I’d like to increase a few holes.

“I still have one week left. You never know what’s going to happen. But in golf it’s really every inch and it could go differently.”

Korda’s year of frustration led him Friday to the Tiburon Golf Course, where it all ends, putting him in a position to change the narrative and clean up heated thoughts, close to unanswered questions.

Two rounds between Nelly Korda and 2025 is a different story.

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