Nelly Korda defeats Leona Maguire to win T-Cellular Match Play

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Nelly Korda received the T-Cellular Match Play on Sunday to grow to be the primary LPGA Tour participant in 16 years to win 4 straight begins, taking 4 of the primary seven holes and occurring to beat Leona Maguire 4 and three at Shadow Creek.

Lorena Ochoa in 2008 was the final participant to win 4 consecutive begins. Korda, the world’s top-ranked participant, will attempt to tie the file of 5 — set by Nancy Lopez in 1978 and matched by Annika Sorenstam in 2004-05 — in two weeks on the season’s first main, The Chevron Championship.

As a result of Korda took seven weeks off after successful in January in her hometown of Bradenton, Florida, this victory was her third straight in a scheduled occasion. 4 gamers share the file of 4 in a row, with Mickey Wright doing it twice.

This was the primary head-to-head match-play singles occasion between Korda and Maguire, however they’ve expertise in opposition to one another in comparable settings on the Solheim Cup. The Irish participant is 3-1 whereas representing Europe in crew match-play occasions in opposition to Korda.

Korda took the drama out of this one with birdies on Nos. 5-7 for a 4-up lead. She was 5 up after 12, noticed Maguire take 13 and 14 with pars, and ended the match with a par win on the par-4 fifteenth.

Korda earned $300,000 for her twelfth profession victory.