Nelly Korda held a two-shot lead when she stepped up to the 14th tee, the final par-5 on the iconic Old Course at St. Andrews.
Sitting at 8-under-par, five straight pars likely would have given her a third career major title. After all, Lydia Ko won the Women’s Open at 7-under overall, making a birdie on 18 to post that score.
But after air-mailing the green with her third shot on the 14th, Korda made a complete mess of it. She left her fourth shot short of the green, chipped onto the putting surface, and three-putted from there, thus carding a woeful, double-bogey seven.
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