New swing thought keys Nelly Korda’s turnaround at CME Tour Championship

Shock, shock – Nelly Korda is again in competition on the CME Group Tour Championship.

The world No. 1, seeking to shut out her superstar-cementing season with back-to-back wins and a $4 million bonus, carded a bogey-free 66 that rocketed her into the highest 5 in Naples.

Leap-started by an eagle hole-out on the third gap, Korda erased any issues from a sloppy even-par opening spherical that despatched her and her group to the vary for solutions.

Korda found she wasn’t hinging correctly throughout her backswing and was out of place on the prime, resulting in a sequence of mis-hits.

“When it will get slightly windy it’s arduous, it sways you round slightly bit extra. So on prime of that, it was simply more durable to search out one thing on the market,” she mentioned Friday. “Fortunately, I’ve a fantastic group of individuals round me and located a easy really feel to enter as we speak. Hopefully I can hold progressing with that.”

Korda’s 66 matched the low spherical of the early starters and moved her – on the time – right into a tie for fourth, only a few photographs again.

Along with the vary session, Korda credited room service and an early night time to “recharge my batteries” after a number of days of sponsor and tour-related actions. It was a much-needed increase Friday for a participant who has already received seven occasions, clinched Participant of the Yr and now could be on the lookout for a becoming finale.

“It’s good to have a day the place you may reset mentally,” she mentioned.