Gainbridge LPGA R4

February 25-28
Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, Orlando, Florida
$2,000,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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At 22-years-old, Nelly Korda has won her fourth victory on the LPGA Tour since joining in 2017 with a bogey-free 69 to finish at 16-under overall.

“I was so uptight and stressed today. It may not have looked that way, but if you just heard my conversations with my caddie today you would’ve known how stressed I was because I was not hitting it well. I didn’t feel very good. I just grinded through it. Today was honestly a grind,” said Korda. “Honestly, I was pretty uneasy all day. I was not hitting it good. I was not hitting enough greens. I was not hitting it great off the tee. I just kept it together.”

The 54-hole leader started with three birdies on the first six holes and followed it up with 12 straight pars.

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Korda had never yet won on American soil, or had a professional win in front of her parents. It’s the second time in LPGA Tour history that sisters have won consecutive events (her sister, Jessica, won the season’s opening Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champion in January). The first were Annika and Charlotta Sorenstam in 2000; Annika won the Welch’s/Circle K Championship on March 13 and Charlotta won the Standard Register PING on March 19.

“It’s amazing. If we can follow in their footsteps, in Annika’s footsteps, that would be absurd,” said Korda. “It just feels amazing to pull off a win, especially in front of family. It’s actually kind of funny because Jess won the week of my dad’s birthday and I won the week of Jess’.”

Korda’s win come just months after injuring her back during the 2020 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and having to withdraw, then taking time off to recover for the U.S. Women’s Open and the CME Group Tour Championship.

“I think there is no athlete that’s not in pain, to be honest. Every athlete is constantly dealing with something and just trying to maintain. Yeah, it’s been a really hard six, seven months. I don’t know when I injured it. I’ve worked a lot on my body to get myself to where I am today,” said Korda. “I’m continually going to work that hard, but it feels great to finally see the hard work payoff.”

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Lydia Ko and Lexi Thompson tied for second at 13-under. Thompson carded her third-straight 68 helped by an eagle at the 11th.

“The eagle was definitely a good little boost to get somewhat up there. I just tried to stay within my game and focus on one shot at a time, and that definitely helped,” said Thompson. “I bogeyed the next hole, but I just tried to stay in it and birdie coming in.”

World No. 1 Jin Young Ko ended the day at 11-under to finish fourth, her fourth consecutive top-five finish since the 2020 Volunteers of America Classic.

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Local resident Annika Sorentam, making a one-off appearance after retiring in 2008, played a final-round 76 to finish 74th at 13-over.

“You know, I’m just thankful for being here, playing here and be able to make the cut. I think overall it’s been quite successful in the sense that I accomplished what I wanted, which was to go out here and just play and play and play. I hit a lot of shots, but I really focused on every shot,” said Sorenstam. “I think I never gave up, even though it was not really going my way and I wasn’t hitting as well as I should be to be out here. The purpose was to get some tournament rounds and I did that.

“I would say I’m quite tired, I’m exhausted. I gave it all. Takes a lot of effort when you miss greens and chip around these greens is really, really difficult. So put a lot of energy into that and obviously just with everybody around it’s been fantastic. It really has. The more I think about it, and once it sinks in I think it’s going to be a big smile on my face.”

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Nelly Korda	-16	67	68	68	69	272
T2	Lydia Ko	-13	65	69	72	69	275
T2	Lexi Thompson	-13	71	68	68	68	275
4	Jin Young Ko	-11	68	72	66	71	277
T5	Sarah Kemp	-10	70	69	70	69	278
T5	Patty Tavatanakit	-10	69	69	66	74	278
7	Angel Yin	-9	72	69	65	73	279
T8	Ashleigh Buhai	-8	71	67	71	71	280
T8	Chella Choi	-8	69	69	69	73	280
T8	In Gee Chun	-8	69	68	71	72	280
T8	Stacy Lewis	-8	71	68	70	71	280
T8	Sophia Popov	-8	70	70	70	70	280
T8	Jenny Shin	-8	71	70	71	68	280
T8	Marissa Steen	-8	69	71	68	72	280
15	Dani Holmqvist	-7	74	67	71	69	281
T16	Brooke M. Henderson	-6	71	69	68	74	282
T16	Xiyu Lin	-6	68	71	72	71	282
T16	Yu Liu	-6	73	72	66	71	282
T16	Leona Maguire	-6	69	72	69	72	282
T16	Amy Yang	-6	72	70	70	70	282
T21	Georgia Hall	-5	72	69	71	71	283
T21	Jennifer Kupcho	-5	68	71	70	74	283
T21	Sarah Schmelzel	-5	72	71	73	67	283
T24	Sei Young Kim	-4	72	74	72	66	284
T24	Brittany Lincicome	-4	69	73	71	71	284
T24	Anna Nordqvist	-4	72	72	69	71	284
T24	Ryann O’Toole	-4	68	68	77	71	284
T24	Amy Olson	-4	70	69	74	71	284
T24	Annie Park	-4	74	71	70	69	284
T24	Lindsey Weaver	-4	71	72	71	70	284
T31	Nanna Koerstz Madsen	-3	67	74	72	72	285
T31	Jessica Korda	-3	71	68	70	76	285
T31	Andrea Lee	-3	70	74	70	71	285
T31	Morgan Pressel	-3	70	74	68	73	285
T31	Anne van Dam	-3	73	72	67	73	285
T36	Lindy Duncan	-2	70	73	68	75	286
T36	Eun-Hee Ji	-2	75	70	71	70	286
T36	Cristie Kerr	-2	70	72	71	73	286
T36	Gabriela Ruffels (a)	-2	73	70	71	72	286
T36	Lauren Stephenson	-2	71	73	68	74	286
T36	Albane Valenzuela	-2	71	73	70	72	286
T42	Brittany Altomare	-1	73	68	74	72	287
T42	Pajaree Anannarukarn	-1	70	73	71	73	287
T44	Ssu-Chia Cheng	E	74	72	69	73	288
T44	Perrine Delacour	E	73	72	71	72	288
T44	Caroline Masson	E	74	70	73	71	288
T44	Jennifer Song	E	76	67	72	73	288
T48	Aditi Ashok	1	74	71	74	70	289
T48	Nicole Broch Larsen	1	68	71	76	74	289
T48	Megan Khang	1	68	75	70	76	289
T48	Bronte Law	1	73	71	71	74	289
T52	Ally Ewing	2	72	72	72	74	290
T52	Nasa Hataoka	2	70	72	74	74	290
T52	Charley Hull	2	71	72	72	75	290
T52	Haeji Kang	2	73	72	71	74	290
T52	Angela Stanford	2	73	72	72	73	290
T57	Cheyenne Knight	3	73	70	73	75	291
T57	Jeongeun Lee6	3	70	73	74	74	291
T57	Pernilla Lindberg	3	71	73	69	78	291
T57	Yealimi Noh	3	72	71	74	74	291
T57	Mariah Stackhouse	3	70	73	74	74	291
T57	Linnea Strom	3	73	71	75	72	291
T57	Jasmine Suwannapura	3	70	73	72	76	291
T64	Kristen Gillman	4	75	71	75	71	292
T64	Maria Torres	4	73	72	71	76	292
T66	Carlota Ciganda	5	75	69	73	76	293
T66	Wei-Ling Hsu	5	75	70	76	72	293
T66	Jeong Eun Lee	5	76	70	75	72	293
T66	Madelene Sagstrom	5	77	69	73	74	293
T70	Jennifer Chang	6	72	72	76	74	294
T70	Dana Finkelstein	6	75	71	75	73	294
72	Jaye Marie Green	7	74	69	76	76	295
73	Pornanong Phatlum	10	74	72	74	78	298
74	Annika Sorenstam	13	75	71	79	76	301
CUT	Daniela Darquea	3	73	74			147
CUT	Austin Ernst	3	75	72			147
CUT	Danielle Kang	3	73	74			147
CUT	Jaclyn Lee	3	75	72			147
CUT	Gaby Lopez	3	68	79			147
CUT	Wichanee Meechai	3	75	72			147
CUT	Lizette Salas	3	74	73			147
CUT	Jing Yan	3	72	75			147
CUT	Caroline Hedwall	4	76	72			148
CUT	Mi Jung Hur	4	74	74			148
CUT	Caroline Inglis	4	73	75			148
CUT	Katherine Kirk	4	72	76			148
CUT	Brittany Lang	4	75	73			148
CUT	Stephanie Meadow	4	76	72			148
CUT	Azahara Munoz	4	75	73			148
CUT	Liz Nagel	4	75	73			148
CUT	Jane Park	4	75	73			148
CUT	Mel Reid	4	71	77			148
CUT	Jackie Stoelting	4	77	71			148
CUT	Celine Boutier	5	74	75			149
CUT	Jenny Coleman	5	75	74			149
CUT	Giulia Molinaro	5	76	73			149
CUT	Mind Muangkhumsakul	5	76	73			149
CUT	Emma Talley	5	76	73			149
CUT	Robynn Ree	6	76	74			150
CUT	Elizabeth Szokol	6	75	75			150
CUT	Laura Davies	7	75	76			151
CUT	Sandra Gal	7	77	74			151
CUT	Muni He	7	76	75			151
CUT	Hee Young Park	7	75	76			151
CUT	Gerina Piller	7	77	74			151
CUT	Alena Sharp	7	72	79			151
CUT	Sarah Jane Smith	7	75	76			151
CUT	Esther Lee	8	76	76			152
CUT	Haru Nomura	8	78	74			152
CUT	Sung Hyun Park	8	75	77			152
CUT	Katherine Perry-Hamski	8	75	77			152
CUT	Alana Uriell	8	76	76			152
CUT	Maria Fassi	9	79	74			153
CUT	Cydney Clanton	10	78	76			154
CUT	Jillian Hollis	11	80	75			155
CUT	Haley Moore	12	76	80			156
CUT	Tiffany Joh	13	77	80			157
CUT	Yani Tseng	20	81	83			164
CUT	Alexa Pano (a)	21	80	85			165
WD	Na Yeon Choi	3	75				75