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No grand slam for Nelly Korda, but immortality still possible at Evian
Jun 28, 2026; Chaska, Minnesota, USA; Nelly Korda takes a tee shot off of hole 1 during the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Nick Wosika-Imagn Images Nelly Korda’s pursuit of the calendar Grand Slam may no longer be on the table, but she remains on the verge of multiple prestigious achievements.
One more major victory will give her the final two qualifying points she needs to trigger LPGA Hall of Fame membership. And a fifth career major title would push her up the all-time leaderboard, tying the likes of Korean great Se Ri Pak.
But Korda is the Scottie Scheffler of women’s golf in more ways than one. Not only is she a dominant World No. 1 player, she consistently insists she doesn’t think about legacy, pressure or external factors.
Korda headlines another strong women’s major field when the sport kicks off a European swing at the Evian Championship, beginning Thursday in Evian-les-Bains, France.
“For my mindset every week, it’s just, like, see how it goes,” Korda said. “Like, there is no (real) advantage to being World No. 1 when it comes to golf. I don’t get a better draw. I don’t have a bye. It’s just that you’re playing good golf, the best golf right now. That’s all that it is.”
Korda’s best finish at the Evian was a T8 in 2022. This and the Women’s Open are the only major trophies she has yet to collect.
She has won four tournaments this year, including the first two majors, but her major streak ended when South Korea’s Haeran Ryu raced out to a massive lead and captured the Women’s PGA Championship two weeks ago.
It was Ryu’s first major title, and she feels primed for more.
“I think everything going to be good, because every major championship is more thinking, more sensitive and more thinking harder, so always I got more stressful on the major week,” Ryu said. “But after (winning the Women’s PGA), I feel like more free and is less stressful for me.”
The Champions Course at Evian Resort will present a few new wrinkles to players this year. Chief among them is the pair of fairway bunkers strategically placed on the par-5 18th hole.
On that hole last year, Australian Grace Kim made eagle on Sunday to tie Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul and force a playoff. Kim then chipped in for birdie on the same hole to win the playoff; she had never finished in the top 10 of a major before that breakthrough.
There’s now a plaque marking the spot where Kim had her chip-in.
“It is a very cool thing for Evian Resort to put up for it, so I’m really grateful for it,” Kim said. “It makes me feel like, you know, a bit (of a) legendary moment, so, yeah, I’m really, really grateful for that.”
At the same time, it was a heartbreaking way for Thitikul to lose. Though just 23, the World No. 2 continues to face questions about when she will finish the job and win her first major. She has four top-10 finishes at the Evian in the past five years.
“It’s always going to be in my mind whatever is happened (is) last year, but I feel like it’s had a good and a bad … and then you can’t let it go,” Thitikul said.
“Like you can’t, like, ‘Oh, I’m just going to let it go and I don’t want think what happening,’ because if you really don’t and then tell yourself not to, it’s always going to be stuck in your mind. But I feel like what has been happening in last year or couple years later on in this tournament, it’s made me who I am today, so it’s just stick to the positive one then.”
–Field Level Media
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Conor McGregor weighs in at 170.5 for UFC 329 bout vs. Max Holloway
Jul 10, 2026; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Conor McGregor reacts during weigh ins for UFC 329 at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Conor McGregor is officially ready for his first UFC fight in five years after he weighed in at 170.5 pounds Friday for his bout with Max Holloway.
McGregor vs. Holloway 2 is the headliner for Saturday’s UFC 329, which will cap International Fight Week festivities in Las Vegas.
The Irishman has not competed since sustaining a broken tibia against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. McGregor returns to the welterweight division for the first time in six years as he sets out to re-establish himself as a title contender.
Holloway, the 34-year-old Hawaii native, weighed in at 170 pounds. He’ll try to even the series 1-all, 13 years after losing via unanimous decision to a then-up-and-coming McGregor on a UFC Fight Night card.
The theatrics at Thursday’s press conference faceoff were no surprise, as McGregor snatched sunglasses off Holloway’s head and threw them to the ground. It turned out Holloway’s shades were Oakley Meta glasses and they captured video of McGregor tossing them aside.
“Man I’m going to miss those sunglasses,” Holloway posted to Twitter.
Man I’m going to miss those sunglasses @oakleymeta #UFC329 pic.twitter.com/m0HG7nvFaU
— Max Holloway (@BlessedMMA) July 10, 2026
–Field Level Media
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Tristan Peters hits for cycle as White Sox blast Athletics
Jul 10, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago White Sox center fielder Tristan Peters (29) hits an RBI single during the fifth inning against the Athletics at Rate Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-Imagn Images Tristan Peters finished 4-for-4 with four RBIs while hitting for the cycle and Sean Burke pitched seven sharp innings as the host Chicago White Sox routed the slumping Athletics 14-1 on Friday.
Chicago stopped a three-game losing streak while sending the Athletics to their season-high seventh straight defeat.
Andrew Benintendi, Sam Antonacci and Peters delivered RBI hits in a decisive four-run fifth inning for the White Sox, who remained in a first-place tie with Cleveland atop the American League Central.
Peters bookended an eight-run seventh with a two-run home run and two-run triple to become the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle since Jose Abreu in 2017. He’s the third player to hit for the cycle in the majors this season.
Burke (6-4) benefited from the support to notch his third victory in five starts. He limited the Athletics to one run and four hits in seven innings, with Tyler Soderstrom’s solo home run in the seventh the lone blemish.
Burke set down the first 13 batters of the game before Jacob Wilson singled with one out in the fifth. The right-hander struck out nine without a walk.
Wilson finished with two of his team’s five hits.
Athletics opener Jacob Lopez needed just 12 pitches to retire the first five White Sox before yielding to bulk reliever Aaron Civale, who set down seven of the first nine batters he faced.
Things turned sharply in the White Sox fifth. Chase Meidroth and Benintendi (two hits, four RBIs) opened the inning with consecutive doubles to produce the team’s first run. After a Kyle Teel walk, Peters and Antonacci contributed successive RBI singles to make it 3-0 with no outs.
Civale (5-7) spaced four runs and six hits in 2 1/3 innings with one walk and four strikeouts.
Chicago’s Miguel Vargas belted a solo home run among his three hits and three RBIs. Meidroth added two hits.
White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami went 1-for-5 with four strikeouts and an RBI double in his first game since suffering a right hamstring strain on May 29.
The Athletics have lost 15 of 18 overall and six straight on the road.
–Field Level Media
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Wyatt Langford helps Rangers uncork 4-run 8th to beat Astros
Jul 10, 2026; Arlington, Texas, USA; Texas Rangers left fielder Wyatt Langford (36) bats against the Houston Astros during the first inning at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Wyatt Langford slugged a tiebreaking home run as the Texas Rangers exploded for four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning en route to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Friday in Arlington, Texas.
Langford answered the Astros’ rally from a three-run deficit with his ninth homer of the season. He drilled a 1-0 fastball from left-handed reliever Bryan King 404 feet to left field, marking the first homer King (2-2) has allowed to a right-handed hitter this season.
Three batters later, Jake Burger joined Langford in that exclusive category. After Langford supplied the Rangers with a 4-3 lead, King walked Josh Jung and surrendered a single to Brandon Nimmo before Burger smacked his 16th homer to left-center. King had not allowed more than one run since April 21 before Texas hung a four-spot on him.
Trailing 3-0 entering the top of the sixth, the Astros mounted their comeback against Rangers starter Cal Quantrill, who had retired eight consecutive batters. Yordan Alvarez blasted his 30th home run of the season and 200th of his career leading off the sixth, a 455-foot shot to right.
Yainer Diaz clubbed a two-run homer off Texas reliever Chris Martin that knotted the score at 3-3 in the seventh.
Quantrill stranded Jeremy Pena and Isaac Paredes in the first after Pena was doubled off at second base on a Christian Walker flyout to left field. Jose Altuve and LaMonte Wade Jr. stroked consecutive singles to open the second, only for Quantrill to retire the subsequent three batters.
After Alvarez singled with one out in the third, Quantrill hit his stride before Alvarez struck a bigger blow. Quantrill allowed one run on five hits and one walk with one strikeout in six innings.
The Rangers struck for two runs in the bottom of the first against Astros right-hander Hunter Brown. Nimmo plated Langford on a single and Burger followed with a run-scoring groundout that drove home Jung.
Joc Pederson stretched that lead to 3-0 with his leadoff homer in the fifth, his 15th of the season.
Brown labored but completed six innings, allowing three runs on four hits with five walks and four strikeouts.
–Field Level Media
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