KAWAGOE, Japan – It was a much different day for Nelly Korda on Friday at the Olympic women’s competition.
Korda’s second-round 62 was a ball-striking masterpiece and distanced her from the field. By comparison, her third-round 69, which kept her squarely in the lead and three shots ahead of India’s Aditi Ashok, was not nearly as easy.
“My fight,” she said when asked what she was most proud of on Day 3. “I didn't have a really good back nine, I was kind of spraying it all over the place, I had some testy par putts, but made all pars and I fought really hard to stay in it.