Nelly Korda Confirms Pulling a Scottie Scheffler Move After Emerging On Top of AIG Women’s Open Leaderboard

Remember when Scottie Scheffler was failing again and again on the greens? It may feel like years have passed, but it was just before the Arnold Palmer Invitational that World No. 1 was struggling to putt. However, at the Arnie’s Championship, the 27-year-old changed from his typical blade putter to the TaylorMade Spider mallet putter. After this, Scheffler’s stars aligned, and he won six tournaments, including another green jacket. Following the men’s world no. 1, Nelly Korda has made an identical move.

After winning the Meijer LPGA Classic, Korda missed three consecutive cuts, and at her last start at the Amundi Championship, she was T26. Coming to the final women’s major at the home of golf, the 14-time LPGA Tour winner has changed her putter too. As the second round of the AIG Women’s Open concluded and Korda took the clubhouse lead with 8 under, she revealed at the press conference the changes she made in her bag. She said, “I just put a new putter in, the Spider.” The LPGA star explained that she needed to look at something different, and now, “It rolls really nicely. I’m very pleased with it. I have no complaint,” said the 26-year-old.

Korda’s statement proves what Scheffler had opined previously as well. When he switched to the mallet putter, the 27-year-old expressed, “This Spider putter is really easy for me to line up. I don’t have to use the line on the ball. I line the putter up really well, and I line up in the middle of the face, and pretty much as simple as that. Kind of gives me just a really good visual. It’s good for me visually, and I like the way the ball comes off the face,” as it helped him drain a putt without using the line on the ball.