Nelly Korda

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Nelly Korda (born July 28, 1998) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She is a four-time major winner, claiming victories at the 2021 Women's PGA Championship, the 2024 and 2026 Chevron Championships and the 2026 U.S. Women's Open. In total, she has won 24 professional titles including 19 on the LPGA Tour and was a gold medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She has spent over 100 weeks as number one in the Women's World Golf Rankings and in both 2021 and 2024 finished as year-end number one. She has represented the United States at four Solheim Cups and was a member of the winning team in 2024.
Korda turned professional in 2016 and won her first professional tournament at the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge the same year. She began playing on the LPGA Tour in 2017 and won her first LPGA event in 2018 at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship. In 2019, she triumphed at the Women's Australian Open and subsequently entered the top-10 of the world rankings for the first time. Korda won further LPGA titles, and in 2021, she claimed her first major with victory at the 2021 Women's PGA Championship, with her victory also taking her to world number one.
At the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, she became the first American female golfer to win individual gold at an Olympic Games since 1900. In 2024, Korda became the third player to have won five consecutive tournaments on the LPGA Tour and this run culminated with her second win in a major: the 2024 Chevron Championship. In September that year, Korda became a member of the United States team that were victorious at the Solheim Cup and she finished the year with seven individual LPGA titles before being named LPGA Tour Player of the Year.
Korda is from a family of professional athletes. Her father Petr was a tennis player who won the 1998 Australian Open, her younger brother Sebastian is a professional tennis player, and her older sister Jessica is a professional golfer. In 2018, Nelly Korda's maiden LPGA Tour victory meant that she and Jessica became the third pair of sisters to have both claimed victory in LPGA Tour events and in 2019, they became the first sisters to play as a pairing in a Solheim Cup match.