Defending champion Korda to headline US women's golf team in Paris
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[June 26, 2024]
(Reuters) - World number one and defending champion Nelly Korda
will headline the three-member U.S. team competing in the women's golf
tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics, USA Golf said on Tuesday.
Korda, a 14-times winner on the LPGA Tour who claimed gold at the 2020
Olympic Games in Tokyo, will be joined in the squad by world number two
Lilia Vu and No. 9 Rose Zhang, who will both be making their Olympic
Games debuts. |
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May 30, 2024; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; Nelly Korda (USA) hits a tee
shot on the 10th hole during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open
golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-USA TODAY Sports/File
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"I'm honored to represent the United States
once again on the Olympic stage this summer in Paris," Korda,
25, said in a USA Golf news release. "Winning the gold medal in
Tokyo was a dream come true and an incredible highlight to my
career."
Korda has six wins on the LPGA Tour in 2024, a remarkable run in
which she won five consecutive tournaments and captured her
second major title.
Vu counts two majors among her five wins on the LPGA Tour and in
2023 earned the circuit's player of the year honors while Zhang,
who won in her debut on the LPGA Tour in June 2023, picked up
her second career win last month.
The Olympic women's golf competition will be held from Aug. 7-10
at Le Golf National outside Paris where a 60-player field will
compete in a 72-hole, stroke-play format.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ken Ferris) [© 2024 Thomson Reuters. All rights
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