Golf News: Big Wins for Nelly Korda and J.T. Poston
高爾夫球新聞：Nelly Korda 與 J.T. Poston 贏得大勝
Introduction
Two big golf games finished recently. These were the U.S. Women's Open and the Memorial Tournament.
最近兩場高爾夫球大賽結束了。分別是美國女子公開賽與紀念賽。
Main Body
Nelly Korda won the U.S. Women's Open. She is the best player in the world. She changed how she held the club to play better. She won $2.5 million.
Nelly Korda 贏得了美國女子公開賽。她是目前世界最強的球員。她改變了握桿方式以提高表現。她贏得了 250 萬美元。
J.T. Poston won the Memorial Tournament. The weather was bad, so the game finished late. He played a tie-breaker game at the end and won. He won $4 million.
J.T. Poston 贏得了紀念賽。由於天氣惡劣，比賽結束較晚。他在最後進行了附加賽並獲勝。他贏得了 400 萬美元。
Other players won too. Tyrrell Hatton won in Spain. Eugenio Chacarra won in the Netherlands.
其他球員也獲勝了。Tyrrell Hatton 在西班牙獲勝。Eugenio Chacarra 在荷蘭獲勝。
Conclusion
Nelly Korda and J.T. Poston are the big winners. Now they can play in more important games.
Nelly Korda 與 J.T. Poston 是此次的大贏家。現在他們可以參加更重要的比賽。
Vocabulary Learning
🏆 Talking about Winners
In this story, we see a very common pattern: Who + did what + where/how.
The Simple Action Word: "Won" Everything in this text is about winning. We use "won" for the past.
- Nelly Korda won the Open.
- J.T. Poston won the Tournament.
How to describe the result → If you want to say someone is the top person, use: "The best [person] in the world."
Connecting Ideas with "So" Look at this sentence: "The weather was bad, so the game finished late."
Use so when the first part of the sentence causes the second part: Bad weather → so → late finish.
Money Words When talking about big prizes, we use the dollar sign ($) and the word "million":
- $2.5 million
- $4 million