Nelly Korda is attempting to make history at the first women’s major of the year, the 2024 Chevron Championship. Korda, who has stunned by winning four straight tournaments on the LPGA Tour, opened with a 2-under 68 on Thursday in an attempt to match the all-time consecutive wins streak of five set by Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05).
If Korda does achieve her fifth-straight win, she will also capture the second major championship of her career — first since the 2021 Women’s PGA Championship. Though she has been close since that victory with seven top 20s in 12 major appearances, she has not bee able to break through.
Korda’s 68 trailed just one player — Lauren Coughlin, who shot 66 — after the first round. She sits T2 alongside Marina Alex and Minami Katsu.
“Definitely a little more tired today,” Korda said. “I think those three weeks, I didn’t think that it was going to drain me as much as it did maybe mentally. I was dead when I got home. I just didn’t even leave my house for the first two days, which was nice, because I had contact naps with [my son] Greyson, which was just so wholesome and so amazing.
“I can definitely still feel maybe a little bit of tiredness, so it took…
