{"id":28900,"date":"2025-11-26T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/lynne-grant-and-grace-kim-lead-annika-as-nellie-korda-takes-off\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:53:34","slug":"lynne-grant-and-grace-kim-lead-annika-as-nellie-korda-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/lynne-grant-and-grace-kim-lead-annika-as-nellie-korda-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Grant and Grace Kim lead ‘Annika’ as Nellie Korda takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BELLAIRE, Fla. — Lynne Grant shot a 7-under 63 at Anika on Friday to share the lead with Grace Kim. Defending champion Nelly Korda made a big breakthrough with a 63, but Kai Trump was still far behind in last place, despite increasing his lead by eight strokes.<\/p>\n

“It was very, very solid. I hit some really good shots,” said Grant, the Swede who won his only LPGA Tour title at the 2023 Dana Open. “The tee-to-green was very good today. I felt like I played the same way yesterday, but I didn’t make any putts, and today I made a lot of putts.”<\/p>\n

Kim shot a 66 at Pelican Golf Club to tie with Grant at 9-under 131. Kim won her first major title at the Evian Championships in France in July and was instrumental in Australia’s recent international crown.<\/p>\n

“I just kept up my mojo,” Kim said. “I just tried to hit a lot of fairways and make a lot of putts. That probably helped me hit it closer today and get an easier birdie. I think I really stayed in my lane.”<\/p>\n

Trump is the granddaughter of President Donald Trump. The high school senior, playing on a sponsor exemption, shot a 75 after starting with an 83. After 18 overs, he was at the bottom of the 108 players by six strokes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really nervous the first day,\u201d she said. “I think the nerves came through. When I came out today, I honestly felt very calm and peaceful. That’s why I played better.”<\/p>\n

First-round leader Heran Liu followed up her early 64 with a 68, dropping her to a tie for third place with Jennifer Kupcho (66) at 8 under. Gabby Lopez shot a 64 for 7 under.<\/p>\n

Korda birdied the final three holes to move to 6 under.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just took advantage of my good shots,\u201d Korda said. “Actually, I didn’t play bad at all yesterday. I went to the practice range after the game and then I went to the putting green and I just said to myself, ‘It’s a fresh day and you never know what’s going to happen.'” I came out and started taking advantage of better shots a little more. \u201d<\/p>\n

Korda won last year’s tournament, becoming the first player in 13 years to win seven games in a season. She hasn’t won yet this year.<\/p>\n

Auston Kim (65) also finished at 6 under, along with Carlota Ciganda (65) and Lauren Coughlin (66).<\/p>\n

The top 60 finishers in the “Race to CME Globe” will qualify for next week’s season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship, where all 60 will win $2 million in prize money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BELLAIRE, Fla. — Lynne Grant shot a 7-under 63 at Anika on Friday to share the lead with Grace Kim. Defending champion Nelly Korda made a big breakthrough with a 63, but Kai Trump was still far behind in last place, despite increasing his lead by eight strokes. “It was very, very solid. I hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-28900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}