Korda was between clubs – a six and seven-iron – and, understandably after what she had witnessed, favoured distance. “It just kind of penetrated through the wind and it went into the back bunker,” she said. “And then I had a leaf under my ball, so when I hit, it rocketed through.”
She was obliged to recross the bridge to the drop zone where she would proceed to duff her pitches into the water twice more, before finally hitting the dancefloor and two-putting from nine feet. “I played some really bad chips over and over again”, was Korda’s honest assessment.
Korda toiled to an 80, her second-worst score as a pro. It was a brutal day, with Lydia Ko also firing an 80. England’s great hope, world No 8 Charley Hull, carded a five-over 75 and that was not too unrespectable on a layout that Korda labelled “a beast” on the practice days.