How the Team USA women’s golfers did at 2021 Olympics

Jessica Korda (USA) at the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club. Photo by Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports

Of the four American women in Tokyo, Jessica Korda was the only one without a major championship on her résumé. She and sister Nelly are the daughters of 1998 Australian Open men’s tennis champion Petr Korda and 1988 Czech Olympic tennis player Regina Rajchrtova Korda.

Jessica shot 71 and 67 to start the week but then slid back with a 73 in the third round. She closed strong, however, posting a bogey-free final-round 64 that featured seven birdies to finished tied for 15th.

“What a great week to have, playing the Olympics and I could only dream of this,” she said before heading back to the course to watch her sister. “I wasn’t even dreaming of this, if we had to qualify last year I wouldn’t have been anywhere near it. So the fact that we had it this year being, having to qualify for the U.S., being the fourth girl, it’s not easy to make our team. So I’m just really proud of myself for grinding it out and playing consistent enough to be able to climb my way on to the team.”

Jessica picked up Nelly’s group on the 16th hole and followed her in from there. She was sitting with Germany’s Sophia Popov greenside on 18 when Nelly clinched the gold.

Danielle Kang (USA) at the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club. Photo by Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports

Danielle Kang dreamed of being an Olympian long before golf returned to the Games.

“The one thing that was the pinnacle was to just hit that mark that I qualified for the Olympics as a USA athlete,” she said in June and later skipped the Amundi Evian Championship to prepare for the Games.

Kang opened 69-69 before a slide down the leaderboard with a third-round 74 after she had bogeys on Nos. 2-3-4 early in her round.

She closed strong, however, carding a round of 65 to wrap up her week. She had seven birdies in her final round, including four in a row on her back nine. Kang finished 7 under and tied for 20th.

Lexi Thompson (USA) talks with her caddie Drew Hinesley at the fifth tee during the third round of the women’s individual stroke play of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports

Lexi Thompson finished tied for 19th at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Five years later, after posting scores of 72-71-69-69, she finished solo 33rd in the 60-woman field. Thompson had some unexpected adversity along the way in Tokyo, as she needed three different caddies over the four-day event.

On the 15th hole on the opening round at Kasumigaseki Country Club, Jack Fulghum had to relinquish his duties due to the extreme heat. LPGA director of player services Donna Wilkins was nearby watching and stepped in for the remainder of the round. Starting with the second round, Thompson had Drew Hinesley on the bag. Hinesley, who was in Japan working for NBC, previously caddied on the PGA Tour and worked for Bryson DeChambeau when he was an amateur at the 2016 Masters.

Beth Ann Nichols of Golfweek and Olivia Reiner and Chris Bumbaca of USA TODAY Sports contributed to this article.