
Nelly Korda will probably be lacking out on the quarter-finals of the T-Cell Match Play Championship. On Friday, she was paired with Thailand native Ariya Jutanugarn and needed to defeat her to seize the win.
Nonetheless, her goals of defending her title had been shattered into items. Jutanugarn beat the Rolex Girls’s World No. 1 by 1-up on the ultimate day of the round-robin play, resulting in her exit forward of the spherical of 16.
Korda began off properly, taking the lead on the par-3 thirteenth gap, regardless of lacking the inexperienced. Nonetheless, the spherical was very bumpy all through.
Jutanugarn did bogey, which got here in helpful for Korda, nevertheless it was not very lengthy. On the fifteenth gap, Jutanugarn carded a 40-foot putt to inside two toes. Korda adopted it up with an identical but extra aggressive shot however missed the return putt after which one other brief putt on No.16, which put the ultimate nail within the coffin.
“That putt to me is kind of arduous due to the slope and it is like downhill and its slope left to proper fairly good. I simply instructed myself I simply have to get the velocity proper, and that is all I deal with,” stated Jutanugarn (by way of NBC Sports activities).
Nelly Korda did handle to defeat Ariya Jutanugarn in 4 holes however luck was not in her favor, and the latter is now set to face South Korea’s Narin An within the subsequent spherical.
Nelly Korda’s 2025 season to this point
Nelly Korda had an distinctive season final yr, beating data and browsing her means by means of all of it. Nonetheless, we are able to absolutely not say it’s the identical for her this yr. Regardless that she did start with a blast, it’s not going very nice.
She kickstarted the 2025 season with the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions and got here very near clinching the trophy. Nonetheless, this yr it was A Lim Kim who had her identify written on the title. The saddest half for Nelly Korda was that she needed to let it slip away by simply two strokes.


She then appeared within the Founders Cup offered by the US Virgin Islands. Though she did have an honest top-10 end in it too (T7), in relation to matching the requirements that she had set final yr, it doesn’t sit very proper.
Issues went from dangerous to worse for the World No. 1 as she had a disappointing stint on the Ford Championship offered by Wild Horse Move, the place she completed with a 14-under at T22. Regardless that she was wanting to observe it up with a greater end, the T-Cell Match Play tragedy struck.
Issues appear to be a bit slippery slope for Nelly Korda however she has nonetheless received plenty of time to bounce again on condition that the season has solely begun.