Korda seeks LPGA record sixth win in a row at Founders Cup

Top-ranked Nelly Korda, coming off her second Major title, will try to capture an LPGA record sixth consecutive victory at this week’s Founders Cup in suburban New York.

The 25-year-old American matched Annika Sorenstam and Nancy Lopez for the all-time record win streak of five by taking last month’s Chevron Championship, beating Sweden’s Maja Stark by two strokes in the year’s first women’s Major championship.

Reigning Olympic champion Korda arrives at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, New Jersey, after two weeks off, saying she hasn’t had time to focus on what six in a row would mean.

“I have not thought about it at all because I’ve had so much going on those two weeks,” said Korda whose week included attending the Met Gala in Manhattan. “Then Monday I had The Met so haven’t had too much time to think about it.”

Korda, the daughter of Czech tennis legend Petr Korda, recalled two missed cuts last year in New Jersey events.

“I’m really just trying to keep it one shot at time, see how it goes,” she said. “This golf course is tough. It’s very narrow off the tee. The rough is very penalising and it’s wet this year so it’s even worse.

“Just not getting too ahead of myself and taking it a shot at a time.

“As boring as it sounds, or as many times as you’re going to hear me say it, that’s the motto and I’m going to stick to it.”

Korda, the first American player to win five LPGA titles in a season since Juli Inkster in 1999, found herself starstruck on the red carpet at the Met Gala.

“It was so crazy,” she said. “You’re standing in line ready to get on the carpet and you’re like seeing all these people you usually watch in TV shows or movies and famous singers and you’re starstruck the entire time. I was just silent looking at everyone’s dresses.”