Chevron Championship Talk Points: Will Charley Hull win the first big? Can Nelly Korda go back to Texas?

After the main season of men started with an emotional Rory McIlroy, which ended the Grand Slam career, attention is now turning to the first female highway in 2025.

Chevron Championship – Live on Sky Sports Golf From Thursday from 4pm – he takes place at Woodlands, Texas, and World No 1 Nelly Korda wants to defend the title.

Charley Hull – aiming at his first great success after numerous misses in recent years – Lilia Vu, Georgia Hall and amateur Lottie Woad are also among the terrains.

Here, with the help of European Vice -President Ryder Cup, Mel Reid, we look at the stories that move to the Tournament in Carlton Woods, including if Korda can return back after the quiet start of the season …

Is Korda still a player?

This time last year, Korda dominated, with a two -way Chevron victory – which earned her the second main title, after the PGA 2021 championship – the fifth victory in that LPGA tour begins, a record that became six of seven.

However, the American has yet to sow in 2025, with only one top five finals to the now-other place in the championship tournament in January-Outstick from the group stage in the T-Mobile game and the consequence of the 16th year at the JM Eagle La championship last week.

Still, Reid considers Korda a player who will win and believe that she is in the 2024-year-old season, during which she missed cutting at the US Open and the Women’s PGA Championship, and registered her Septuple-Bugey 10 in the former, she helped her grow.

Reid said Sky Sports Golf Podcast: “She showed strength, maybe she didn’t even realize that she had it, and I don’t think you can exclude someone who swings the royal as beautifully as she does, drives him and so beautiful.

“It’s hard to support the season like she was 2024, but she still plays well. It’s not like she’s missing cuts. She’s still very consistent. I think she’ll be a multiple winner this year because she’s so good and her team is so solid.”

Golf Fanatic Hull Time to Win the Great?

England Hull has two LPGA Tour titles in its own behalf, plus four to Ladies European Tour, and was also part of the multiple success of the Solheim Cup -but it still raises her big title, with the best final processing in Chevron 2016 and the same results in women’s open and AIG women’s opening and AIG.

The share of the third at the 2022 Evian Championship was another almost, but it was not exactly a moment for Hull, although Reid expects a 29-year-old to break that duck at some stage, saying, “I feel just a matter of time before he wins.

“I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who loves golf as much as Charley. She’ll play on Christmas! It’s probably the most appropriate she was and is one of the most reliable people and players I met. I’ll follow her this week.”

Hull ended only outside the top 25 in the last 10 appearances in Chevron, when she missed the cut 2023, until she ended up outside the Top 20 at any event by Strokeplay from the Paris Olympic Games last summer.

It looks like she has been dedicated to a lot of time for fitness to pay off and a big victory would limit it.

Can thitticul convert consistency into the first main title?

12. The end of Jeen Thittikula in LPGA Blue Bay in March looks like a terrible result – but only because it is the only time in the last 14 LPGA tour that ended beyond the top 10.

The highlight of that excellent run was to win the CME Group Tour championship in November for its second title in 2024, and now aiming for the maiden major crown.

Thailand, 22, held the lead in the third round in Chevron last season before finishing in 12th place, while finishing here in the fourth place in 2023.

Reid said that Thitticul, who gained a ladder at the top of the 2024 LPGA, was also led by a metrical this year: “She doesn’t miss a shot. She’s one of the most impressive young players I’ve ever seen. She also has a fantastic head on the shoulders. If the future is LPGA.

Amateur wood looks to impress again

England Lottie Woad finished three kicks behind the winner Carle Bernat Escuder in third place as she tried to defend the Augusta National amateur amateur earlier this month, so she was fighting against Chevron for the second time.

The 21 -year -old played in four of the five majorettes last year – only absent for the PGA Championship – and although she missed the cut on the American women’s open and Evian championship, she came to 23.

No amateur won the women’s highway of Catherine Lacoste in 1976, while it has been seven years since the British or Irish player triumphed – the Georgia English Hall at the 2018 Women’s Open.

Hall missed the cut in three of his four LPGA Tour events this season, but did not end up outside the Top 25 in Chevron in the last three appearances. Scotland Gemma Dryburgh and Ireland Leona Maguire are other players to follow.

Look at the first female high school of the season, Chevron Championship, live Sky Sports Golf and Sky Sports Main event from 4:00 pm on Thursday. The coverage continues to the last round of Sunday, which is live on Sky Sports+ from 7:00 pm and Sky Sports Main event from 7.30pm. You can also flow a golf now.

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