Georgia Corridor has credited a modified in mindset for overcoming powerful scoring circumstances to make a powerful begin to her bid for a second AIG Girls’s Open title.
The 2018 champion eagled her ultimate gap to shut an opening-round 71 and be considered one of solely 4 gamers within the morning wave to complete underneath par, leaving her inside three strokes of early clubhouse chief Ruoning Yin.
Corridor began within the yr contained in the world’s prime 20 however has dropped to fortieth within the Rolex Rankings after registering only one worldwide top-10 in 16 begins this season, with the Englishwoman happy to see her fortunes slowly beginning to change.
“Sometimes I look negatively on things, more outside of golf, and then it kind of affected my mentality on the golf course,” Corridor informed reporters after her spherical. “Now I try and see and be grateful for what I have in my life, that I get to do a job that I love, be more positive and have a more positive outlook.
“Some good golf, as nicely, helps me with that. I do not suppose anybody can win a golf match except they’re mentally blissful and in place, on and off the golf course. I believe that is simply crucial.
“As golfers, we spend our lives being a golfer and having everyone look at us, but we don’t have a lot of time to focus on ourselves off the course. I’ve come to kind of recognise who I am off the golf course, not just Georgia Hall the golfer, so I think that’s been good for me.”
Corridor’s finest end of the season got here with a tied-third end on the Aramco Group Sequence occasion in London in July, with the Englishwoman coming into this week off the again of a top-20 end on the Evian Championship and robust efficiency on the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open.
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Highlights from day 4 of the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open, the place Lauren Coughlin claimed a formidable victory.
“The first half of the year was probably some of the worst performance of golf that I’ve had, but my golf actually wasn’t bad,” Corridor added. “Mentally, I was just struggling a little bit but now, the past couple months, my results have been pretty good, I would say.
“Fairly constant. Put myself into competition a couple of occasions. I used to be fairly assured coming into this occasion, clearly simply exterior prime 10 final week. I used to be blissful signing my scorecard [today] for one over on the final gap, so to handle to get an eagle there may be undoubtedly a bonus.
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Georgia Corridor is assured taking part in in powerful circumstances and takes a glance again at her excellent eagle on the final.
“I was very glad we didn’t stop play. I love those conditions, whether I play bad or not. This is a true Women’s Open like this and I believe that’s how it should be every day. That’s part of the battle with the weather, and I just tried to make the most out of that out there.”
Woad after sturdy begin: ‘I am not getting forward of myself’
Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie champion Lottie Woad can be in contact with the leaders after beginning her AIG Girls’s Open debut with a level-par 72 on Thursday morning.
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Lottie Woad turned the primary Englishwoman to win the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie earlier this yr. We went all the way down to her residence membership to search out out concerning the junior part that helped her speedy rise by means of the ladies’s recreation.
Woad – the beginner world No 1 and a part of Nice Britain and Eire’s Curtis Cup group subsequent week – combined three birdies with as many bogeys, though she refuses to get carried away a couple of potential push for main competition.
“I’m used to playing in the wind,” Woad mentioned. “I play a lot of links golf over the summer, so it definitely helps that I have that experience and know how to play those knockdown shots. Just got to keep the ball on the ground.
Lottie Woad additionally appeared on the Chevron Championship, US Girls’s Open and the Evian Championship this yr
“I was trying not to too ahead of myself. I was around par or one under with a fair few holes to play and you’re just thinking about the clubhouse. You’re trying to not get too far ahead of yourself, as you can let some shots go in this wind pretty easily.”
On what her expectations had been for the remainder of the week, Woad informed Sky Sports activities: “It has definitely helped me [playing in two majors already], albeit those experiences have been a bit different to this one and links golf. I just kind of want to play all four days, experience the weekend at St Andrews and then see where that will put me.”
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