Nelly Korda has drawn comparisons to Scottie Scheffler the last three years. Friday offered an association neither desired.
Hours after Scheffler locked up his first missed cut on the PGA Tour in four years, Korda put her two-year streak in jeopardy.
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Korda needed to birdie her final hole in Round 2 of the Amundi Evian Championship to guarantee a spot on the weekend, but left her effort inches short. She shot 2-under 69 to finish at 1 over, one off the projected cut of even par, with players still on the course.
Tied for 67th when she signed her card — with the top 65 and ties making the cut — her current position would snap a streak of 34 cuts made in official LPGA Tour events. Her last missed cut was in the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship — a season in which she won seven times.
Korda has three wins this year, including in the first two majors (Chevron, U.S. Women’s Open). She tied for eighth in major No. 3, the KPMG Women’s PGA, matching her worst individual result in ’26.
Until Friday.
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After opening in 3-over 74, Korda got back to even par with three birdies in 12 holes in Round 2. But a bogey at the par-4 17th, where she left a 10-foot save short, dropped her below the projected cut line.
Playing the par-5 18th — the easiest hole at Evian Resort Golf Club — Korda missed the fairway with her tee shot and laid up. Her approach shot finished 15 feet beyond the flag, and just as she did the hole prior, she left short a putt she needed to make.
Aside from the next hour of waiting to see what happens in France, Korda is scheduled to compete in next week’s ISPS Handa Scottish Open at Dundonald Links and then the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, the LPGA’s fifth and final major.
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