Great athletes don’t choose when they deliver their most remarkable feats. They just deliver them.
That’s what Nelly Korda has been doing the past couple months.
The 25-year-old No. 1 ranked women’s golfer in the world has been delivering on a record-setting level, winning her last five tournaments — a feat only Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam have accomplished.
Korda is on a heater reminiscent to what Tiger Woods was on in his prime when he won five consecutive starts in 2007-08, six in a row in 1999-2000 and seven straight in 2006-07.
Nelly Korda watches her shot during the final round of the Chevron Championship LPGA golf tournament Sunday, April 21, 2024,
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Nelly Korda watches her shot during the final round of the Chevron Championship LPGA golf tournament Sunday, April 21, 2024,
Her recent accomplishments have even superseded what men’s world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has been doing, winning four of his past five tournaments, including a second Masters title.
We are fortunate to have Korda’s greatness in our midst on the New York sports landscape for the next two weeks — with this week’s Cognizant Founders Cup at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., and the Mizuho Americas Open being played next week at Liberty National in Jersey City.
The unfortunate element to this is that the timing is bad for Korda’s visit here because of the current bender that New York sports is on. With the Knicks and Rangers playoff runs and the Yankees and Mets in the throes of their respective seasons, there’s not a lot of oxygen left for women’s golf in our area.
The shame is that sports fans should be lining up at Upper Montclair this week and Liberty next week to witness one of the finest runs not just a women’s golfer has ever been on, but any golfer.