World number one Nelly Korda dominates Olympic golf course in Japan

Nelly Korda (Keith Allison, Wikimedia Commons)

Nelly Korda of Bradenton, Florida is 36 holes away from being an Olympic gold medalist. On Thursday, Korda, the world number one, shot a 62 to post an 18-hole score of -9 in the second round of the Olympic women’s golf tournament at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.

What is remarkable is the fact that Korda could have shot a better score than -9. But heading into the 18th and final hole, the Women’s PGA Championship winner, recorded a double-bogey six on a par-four.

As a result, Korda is the leader at the halfway point of the Olympic women’s golf tournament. She currently has a commanding four-stroke lead on two Danish golfers in Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Emily Kristine Pedersen, along with India’s Aditi Ashok.

Korda is also trying to be the second American to win a gold medal in golf at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. In men’s golf, Xander Schauffele of San Diego, California placed first. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the United States did not win a gold medal in golf, but did come away with a bronze medal, as Matt Kuchar of Winter Park, Florida placed third behind gold medalist Justin Rose of Great Britain and silver medalist Henrik Stenson of Sweden.

Interestingly, Kuchar, Rose or Stenson were not part of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Meanwhile, all three Olympic medalists from Rio five years ago (gold medalist Inbee Park of South Korea, silver medalist Lydia Ko of New Zealand, and bronze medalist Shanshan Feng of China) in women’s golf played together over the first two rounds in the Olympic women’s golf tournament in Tokyo.

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