Major season is in full swing and next on the docket is the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
Kim had won 10 times on the LPGA before her triumph, but she finally got off the “Best Players to Have Never Won a Major” list with the title.
Now she heads to Atlanta with a target on her back.
With Kim vacating the BPTHNWAM crew, Nelly Korda now holds the unfortunate place atop the list.
2 player in the world and is coming off a victory last week, so her game is in the necessary form, and she’s also got one of the sweetest swings in the world.
In the time since, she’s racked up top 10s at an impressive clip, earned a victory at the Lotte Championship and carded the lowest final-round score in major championship history.
Ko is miles from the floundering, lost state she was in before last summer, but breaking a long major championship drought is no easy proposition .
Whether or not the new mentality will be enough to offset the scar tissue from Olympic’s back nine will be one of the biggest questions of the week.
Wie West has made just one cut in five starts this season and was never really in contention, finishing T40.
At the ANA Inspiration earlier this spring, she was in contention after Round 1, so the talent remains with the 31-year-old, but the consistency to put it together for four rounds has eluded her.
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