THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

April 27, 2025

Nelly Korda

The Club at Carlton Woods

Quick Quotes

Q. I'll ask one quick question about your Chevron Invitational next week. How excited are you to be able to that and have that and also join forces with Chevron to make a great experience?

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, they've been so amazing. Something that I dreamed of is having an elevated event that's a little different from anything else.

I always say that best experience that I always had was playing in major championships, playing against the best players in the world. What an opportunity for these girls that Chevron stepped up and made happen.

I'm super grateful for them.

At the end of the day this is the next generation so I'm excited to see them play. Hopefully they'll get concussed at concussion -- Concession I mean. (Laughing.) Yeah, I have a concussion.

Q. You mentioned if you could go back you might change your schedule a little bit. What would you do?

NELLY KORDA: It's just really tough with a 6 p.m. finishing time in LA on the west coast and having to get to a major. It's hard to be fresh on a Monday.

So I just wish I maybe got 18 in, but we got rained out on Wednesday. Kind of tough. I was off early on Thursday.

So wanted to prioritize my rest, but at the end of the day I mean, you just got to roll with the punches and continue learning.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't even -- I just played the pro-am, the front nine, so didn't get to chip, putt, see how the greens are releasing, since with this new pro-am protocol where we can't chip and putt anymore.

So not having that kind of sucked. At the end of the day, I mean, I did have the chance to play in the afternoon on Wednesday and I didn't take it so it's on me.

Q. When you look at the Friday round, second round, where would you consider that in terms of gutsiest rounds in your career?

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, I just had to dig deep. I had nothing to lose. You have nothing to lose so may as well just fire at it.

Q. I know you're not playing in Black Desert, but they are getting a charter for a lot of girls. I am sure that helps a lot. Your thoughts on that and some of the bells and whistles that some of the tournaments are trying to do.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, I think every new sponsor that we get, they're trying to do something different, elevate their tournament to be the best, and at the end of the day invest in women's golf. I think that goes a really long way for the players to see their interest and how much they want to change even the culture out here with our travel.

So props to them for trying to get us to the event as fast as possible.

Q. What do you take overall from this week?

NELLY KORDA: Just have to continue working hard.

Q. Where do you think you'll spend most of your time next week in terms of your game?

NELLY KORDA: That's a great question. I was Jason that. Off the driving range and playing more. Just seeing my shots and hitting them.

Q. Will you change your schedule ahead of the next majors?

NELLY KORDA: No. I'm just going to keep them. Yeah, I'm playing Scottish for the first time ever this year, not playing anything before Evian, not playing Dow, and then I don't know what's before KPMG.

Meijer?

Q. Yeah.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, so I don't do four events in a row. So I'm playing ShopRite this year but I won't play Meijer because my body cannot do four events in a row.

Q. In a sense are you almost glad that the whole defending champion, five in a row, all that's over with and you can go back to playing regular golf now, not to have to hear all that?

NELLY KORDA: I mean, I'm proud hearing that. Like I don't think of it in a negative at all. I'm very proud of what I did last year.

I don't think -- when I'm on the golf course and when I'm playing I don't think about what I did last year. I think people want me to think about it but I don't because I just want to -- where the state of my game is, that's where it is right now.

I mean, it's not going to help me thinking about the past. Only thing I can do is just work hard and kind of simplify everything and just continue to trend hopefully in the right direction.

Q. What do you find that you do best when you don't have you're best stuff, and you talked about how you didn't have you've best stuff this week?

NELLY KORDA: How do I get through it? I just lean on the people around me. My dad will probably go to every one of my practice sessions next week, which I really enjoy. He did it with me before I left it LA.

It's nice because sometimes he just tells me to take a break when I don't want to.

Q. Did you practice at all on Wednesday?

NELLY KORDA: I did. I went super early. I just got the back nine in.