There’s a cause Georgia Corridor is a fan favourite on the LPGA Tour.

The 2018 Ricoh Ladies’s British Open champion loves giving again to her group and rising the ladies’s recreation. It is easy to grasp why Corridor is beloved on the LPGA Tour. She can be the most effective feminine golfers on this planet.

Corridor ranks No. 12 within the Rolex standings and No. 8 within the Race to CME Globe, per her LPGA bio. With 5 top-10s this yr, she is placing collectively one other sturdy season.

“I had a pleasant begin to the season,” Corridor mentioned throughout an unique interview with SB Nation’s Enjoying By. “I had a really sturdy West Coast swing for certain, similar to I actually love and luxuriate in competing out right here taking part in in opposition to one of the best on this planet.”

Corridor completed T12 within the first main of the yr, The Chevron Championship. Nevertheless, within the second main, she missed the minimize at Baltusrol for the Ladies’s PGA Championship. That missed minimize wasn’t due to her kind however a abdomen bug that got here on the flawed time.

“We’ve loads of majors in a really brief house of time,” Corridor mentioned. “So positively, whoever form of may be on kind and the subsequent few months goes to have an especially good yr. I have been taking part in very nicely up till this level. So there isn’t a cause why I am unable to have an excellent one.”

Now Corridor and the opposite LPGA gamers will tackle Pebble Seashore for the primary time on the U.S. Ladies’s Open.

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Georgia Corridor’s familiarity with Pebble Seashore

Corridor isn’t any stranger to Pebble Seashore. She known as the venue extraordinary and considered one of her favorites. The 2-time Solheim Cup winner has performed the course just a few occasions, together with her first yr as a professional in a TaylorMade Invitational.

“It’s kind of linksy, so I am assured going into this occasion as a result of it jogs my memory a bit of little bit of house,” Corridor mentioned. “I feel it is the primary U.S. Open that jogs my memory of that as a result of they are not usually venues like this — they are much extra Americanized.”

The English golfer grew up taking part in hyperlinks golf programs. She loves how Pebble Seashore may give her a bit of of all the things if the state of affairs is correct — wind and rain, or as Corridor favored to name it, “English climate.”

“I am used to a bit extra wind than different gamers, like a British Open in a approach, particularly a number of the holes,” Corridor mentioned. “I do know a few of them are extra parkland, however particularly as you exit on that nice small par-3 there. It positively shall be iconic all through the week.”

Her familiarity with Pebble Seashore and hyperlinks golf programs might bode nicely for the Englishwoman.

A welcomed take a look at for Georgia Corridor and different LPGA gamers

The LPGA hasn’t performed a serious championship at Pebble Seashore. Most affiliate the course with males as a result of the PGA Tour performs on it yearly. Nevertheless, the ladies love a problem too. After they tackled Baltusrol in June, they’re going to get one other main championship at extremely prestigious golf course.

“We’ve a very sturdy tour, and we’ve gamers from around the globe — each week, we do not know who’s going to win,” Corridor mentioned. “And each week, there’s many a playoff. I imply, this yr, there’s been so many playoffs already. It simply reveals the form of spectrum of expertise we’ve.”

The LPGA needs to play on one of the best programs similar to the lads. The 27-year-old Brit made it clear there isn’t a cause that ought to not proceed to assist additional the ladies’s recreation.

“We absolutely should be, and we need to play onerous golf programs,” Corridor mentioned. “I try off taking part in actually onerous programs. That is why I just like the majors. I feel it is thrilling to see the scores being just one, two, three-under as a result of it is so robust.”

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Georgia Corridor provides again by way of golf and American Categorical

Whereas Corridor loves tackling the hardest programs, she additionally takes nice satisfaction in giving again in a mess of the way.

Corridor has paired up with American Categorical this week on the U.S. Ladies’s Open. She and 6 different gamers will work with the model as they spotlight native companies within the Pebble Seashore space.

That is American Categorical’ second yr working with native companies and a number of the LPGA’s greatest names to showcase these communities. It began final yr in Southern Pines, N.C.

Corridor joins Lydia Ko, Lexi Thompson, Celie Boutier, Gaby Lopez, Mina Harigae and Gabi Ruffels because the seven gamers taking part on this initiative, every carrying a small enterprise emblem on their luggage or attire.

“I feel it is wonderful what American Categorical is doing… I will be concerned with Lafayette Bakery all through the week, and I’ll assist them on my sleeve whereas I am taking part in,” Corridor mentioned. “Hopefully, get a little bit of protection for them and hopefully be capable of pop in myself to see all their good breads, truffles and croissants.”

The enterprise is a family-owned genuine French bakery and cafe. Lafayette Bakery and Lula’s Goodies, one other firm concerned, will take part in a gift-with-purchase promotion as a part of this system from July 6-9. American Categorical card members will obtain a free croissant after they use their card on the bakery.

Corridor unquestionably loves rising the sport, and it is not about simply giving golf classes but in addition supporting native communities.

“I am fortunate sufficient to have a platform now. I may give again and assist the youthful era. I feel that once I was youthful, I’d have cherished to have one thing comparable,” Corridor mentioned. “Particularly the place I come from, there actually is not a great deal of feminine golfers. There’s solely a handful of us on the LPGA that is form of made it.”

She hosted a golf academy earlier this summer time at Paultons Golf Centre & Georgia Corridor Academy. The academy opened on Worldwide Ladies’s Day, March 8, 2023.

“I like youngsters, and I like seeing their faces after they make a shot on that golf ball. To listen to that they by no means performed earlier than and that they now love the sport,” she mentioned. “If I might help get extra individuals right into a recreation to offer a greater future for golf on the whole however golf within the U.Okay., then I would be very comfortable.”

The proficient star performs with Boutier and Nasa Hataoka for the primary two rounds of the U.S. Ladies’s Open as they tee off at 8:39 a.m. PT.