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2024 LPGA Tour Rankings

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Chevron Championship Power Rankings: The top 25 players in the LPGA's first major

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The Chevron Championship arrives as the LPGA Tour is in Nelly Korda's orbit. The 25-year-old has won her last four starts in a row, starting at the LPGA Drive On in January. Then Korda took seven weeks off and returned to the tour by winning the LPGA's last three events: the Fir Hills Se Ri Pak Championship , the Ford Championship and the T-Mobile LPGA Match Play . The 12-time LPGA winner is the top player in the game, and, spoiler alert, I might not have a job if I didn't put Korda at No. 1 in these Chevron power rankings.

Recent history, however, stands against Korda earning her fifth consecutive title this week. Lydia Ko's 2016 ANA Inspiration victory was the last time anyone who was No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Rankings won a major. But Korda is clearly in her own tier at the moment, with a chance to move her 2024 campaign into the Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa echelon of great years with the calendar still in April. The American showed comfort at Carlton Woods last year during the tour's first visit to The Woodlands, Texas, with a third-place finish.

Meantime, Ko continues her march toward reaching the LPGA Hall of Fame, and a victory this week would be a fitting way to secure that honor.

Here are our top 25 players heading into the LPGA's first major of the season.

25. Andrea Lee

Rolex Rankings: 40; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-56, 2023

Lee is a consistent performer early on this season, with three top-10s, including a T-5 at Palos Verdes Golf Club, her home course, at the Se Ri Pak Championship. The 2022 Portland Classic winner still needs to translate that consistency to majors, looking for the third top-10 of her career in her 22nd start. Her T-56 in 2023 was the first made cut of her career in the Chevron.

24. Mi Hyang Lee

Rolex Rankings: 66; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: 2nd, 2019; '23 Finish : MC

The South Korean has a pair of T-3s this season at the HSBC and the Ford Championship, the first time she's posted two top-3s during one campaign in her 13-year career. In a resurgent season, the two-time LPGA winner has moved up the world rankings from 132nd at the start of 2024 to 67th.

23. Sarah Schmelzel

Rolex Rankings: 62; Chevron starts: 5; Best finish: T-25, 2021; '23 Finish : MC

Schmelzel is in impressive company in the early part of 2024. The 29-year-old is tied with Brooke Henderson, Ayaka Furue, and Korda for the most top-10s (four) on tour. She posted a career-best finish with a runner-up at the Blue Bay LPGA. This year is already the most top-10s the five-year veteran has had in a season, totaling 12 in her career.

22. Amy Yang

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Rolex Rankings: 15; Chevron starts: 14; Best finish: T-4, 2012 and 2023

The 2023 CME Group Tour Championship winner is one of the most consistent major performers on the LPGA without a major title in hand. Yang has 21 top-10s, including 12 top-5s, since winning low amateur at the 2006 Women's British. The five-time LPGA winner has yet to contend in 2024, with a best finish of T-23 in at the Honda LPGA Thailand.

21. Ruoning Yin

Rolex Rankings: 4; Chevron starts: 1; Best finish: T-41, 2023

The 2023 Women's PGA Championship winner enters the first major off a challenging finish in her title defense at Palos Verdes Golf Club. While leading, Yin triple bogeyed the 18th hole Saturday and shot a final-round 73 to tie for eighth. It's the 21-year-old's only top-10 of the season in seven starts. Her strokes dropped from third place on tour in 2023 (1.87) to 48th (0.52) this season.

20. Allisen Corpuz

Rolex Rankings: 17; Chevron starts: 1; Best finish: T-4, 2023

The signs of Corpuz breaking through at Pebble Beach for her U.S. Women's Open title started at last year's Chevron, where the American was the 54-hole leader. Corpuz's Sunday 74 put her two strokes out of the playoff. Knocking Corpuz down this list are her recent struggles at the end of the LPGA's west coast swing, posting a T-40 and T-60 over her last two starts.

19. Atthaya Thitikul

Rolex Rankings: 10; Chevron starts: 3; Best finish: T-4, 2023

It's hard to evaluate the former World No. 1, considering Chevron will be her first start anywhere in the 2024 season. The Thai won the 2023 Vare Trophy, awarded to the player with the lowest scoring average on tour, without any victories. Thitikul closed her season on a high note, posting four top-5s in her final five starts to end her campaign.

18. Charley Hull

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Rolex Rankings: 7; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-2, 2016; '23 Finish : MC

Hull notched a pair of major runners-up last year, pushing Corpuz down the stretch at Pebble Beach and sharing the 54-hole lead at the AIG Women's Open with Lilia Vu before losing by six. Hull continued her strong play early in the '24 season with a pair of top-10s before a back injury forced her to WD from the Ford. Hopefully, the two-week break gave the Englishwoman some needed reprieve before the Chevron.

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17. Angel Yin

Rolex Rankings: 20; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: 2nd (playoff loss), 2023

Yin made her first start of 2024 at the LPGA Match play, sitting out the beginning of the year on the mend. She says she now carries the ball about 20 yards farther off the tee than before the injury, a discovery the 2023 Buick Shanghai LPGA winner made during two weeks of practice before the recent Match Play. She was the only player to take Korda to the 16th hole on the weekend ahead of returning to the home of her best major finish, last year’s Chevron playoff loss to Lilia Vu.

16. Megan Khang

Rolex Rankings: 13 Chevron starts: 8 Best finish: T-9, 2023

Khang earned her first career victory at the CPKC Women's Open last August and had a breakthrough season at the majors in 2023. It was the first time in her career she posted three top-10s at majors, including a T-9 at Carlton Woods and a T-3 at the Women's PGA. The 26-year-old continued her strong play with a third place at the LPGA Drive On Championship in January, one of three top-15 finishes in five starts in 2024.

15. Ayaka Furue

Rolex Rankings: 22; Chevron starts: 2; Best finish: T-44, 2022; '23 Finish : T-52

Furue may be the most consistent player on tour without a win this season. The Japanese native has finished in the top 30 in all eight events she has played, highlighted by three top-5s and a third-place finish at the Blue Bay LPGA. The 2022 Women's Scottish Open winner posted two top-10s at majors last year, but hasn't figured out the Chevron yet.

14. Minjee Lee

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Rolex Rankings: 5; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-3, 2017; '23 Finish : T-41

Lee made only two domestic starts in 2024, including a T-15 in Las Vegas. She enters the Chevron off a down major season for her last year, where 2023 was the first time since 2019 that the 10-time winner did not post a top-10 at a major. Lee's finish at Carlton Woods (T-41) was the second-worst major result of her season.

13. Allison Lee

Rolex Rankings: 14; Chevron starts: 8; Best finish: T-8, 2022; '23 Finish : MC

The only thing stopping Lee's run since the end of the 2023 season is a dog bite. Lee's boyfriend's dog bit her left hand during the offseason, extending the 29-year-old's break to the opening Asia swing. Outside of her T-51 to begin the season in Singapore, Lee's finished in the top 10 in five of her last seven starts, including three consecutive runners-up to finish 2023. The American's new-found confidence, fueled partly by cornerman Freddie Couples, has put Lee in a position to contend week in and week out.

12. Jiyai Shin

Rolex Rankings: 18; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: T-5, 2010; '23 Finish : N/A

The former World No. 1 made her first start in a domestic regular LPGA event since 2013 at the Se Ri Pak Fir Hills Championship and was tied for the 54-hole lead before Korda won the title. Shin has been finding success whenever she plays on the LPGA lately: The 35-year-old has finished in the top 5 in five of her last seven starts, including a T-2 at the U.S. Women's Open.

11. Hyo Joo Kim

Rolex Rankings: 9 Chevron starts: 8 Best finish: T-6, 2019 '23 Finish : 11th

Kim is one of the most consistent major performers on the LPGA in the past five seasons. Over her last 20 major starts, dating back to the end of 2018, the South Korean has only finished outside of the top 30 twice. She's amassed 10 top-10s over that span, including narrowly missing out on her 11th at last year's Chevron. However, as much time as she spends at the top of major leaderboards, Kim has only one win: the 2014 Evian Championship, the first major appearance of her career.

10. Hannah Green

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Rolex Rankings: 16; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-8, 2022; '23 Finish : MC

The Australian heads into the Chevron in form, even with only four starts this season. Green notched her fourth career victory at the HSBC Women's World Championship in late February, closing with three consecutive 67s to win by a stroke. The 2019 Women's PGA winner shot a 61, the lowest round of her career, just two weeks ago during the second round of the Ford Championship.

9. Patty Tavatanakit

Rolex Rankings: 24; Chevron starts: 5; Best finish: Win, 2021; '23 Finish : T-41

The long-bombing Thai made her mark by averaging over 320 yards in her California desert win in the 2021 ANA Inspiration, becoming the second major champion from her homeland alongside Ariya Jutanugarn. She showed initial mastery of Carlton Woods in 2023, sitting in fourth through 36 holes at last year's Chevron before a 77-76 weekend.

8. Rose Zhang

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Rolex Rankings: 21; Chevron starts: 2; Best finish: T-11 2020; '23 Finish : DNP

Zhang makes her Carlton Woods debut following a rookie season with impressive major consistency. The Mizuho Americas Open winner posted top-10s in three of her four major appearances: T-9s in the U.S. Women's Open and the Evian, and a T-8 in the Women's PGA. Returning to tour play following attending classes at Stanford, Zhang ended her three-tournament run by making the quarterfinals of the LPGA Match Play.

7. Sei Young Kim

Rolex Rankings: 34; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-3, 2021; '23 Finish : T-52

The 13-time LPGA winner is having a renaissance season. Kim has finished in the top 20 in all six starts this year, including a T-3 at the Honda LPGA Thailand. The 31-year-old won at least once yearly from 2015 to 2020, including her first major title at the 2020 Women's PGA. The South Korean's resurgence shows in her strokes gained, as Kim sits in third on the LPGA this season (2.08) compared to 39th last year (0.58).

6. Jin Young Ko

Rolex Rankings: 6; Chevron starts: 7; Best finish: Win, 2019; '23 Finish : T-9

Ko is one of the most dominant players of the current LPGA era. However, the South Korean has mostly been missing in action this season, making her domestic debut this week and only making two starts during the opening Asia swing. Ko's last event was a T-8 at the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore in February. The 15-time winner has finished in the top 10 at majors in nine of her last 20 starts.

5. Celine Boutier

Rolex Rankings: 3; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-4, 2022; '23 Finish : T-14

The 2023 Evian Championship winner continued her excellent run to finish last season with a runner-up at the HSBC Women's Championship in early March. Boutier won four times last year, including three victories over a seven-start stretch.

4. Lilia Vu

Rolex Rankings: 2; Chevron starts: 4; Best finish: Win, 2023

Vu has proven that form matters less for her when heading into majors. The defending champion missed back-to-back cuts at last year's U.S. Women's Open and KPMG Women's PGA before T-42 and T-35 finishes ahead of the AIG Women's Open. There, Vu became the first American to win two majors in a season since Juli Inkster in 1999. The four-time winner follows a similar path to her first major title defense: a pair of WDs due to her back in Southeast Asia, then a T-37 in Southern California, and a T-21 at the Ford before two weeks off ahead of the Chevron.

3. Brooke Henderson

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Rolex Rankings: 12; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: Playoff loss, 2020; '23 Finish : T-23

The Canadian has already amassed more top-10 finishes this year than last season, earning four in her first seven starts of 2024. That run of consistency is generally a sign that the 13-time winner is close to entering the winner's circle; Henderson last had such a stretch in the summer of 2022, when she won both the Shoprite LPGA Classic and the Amundi Evian Championship.

2. Lydia Ko

Rolex Rankings: 8; Chevron starts: 11; Best finish: Win, 2016; '23 Finish : MC

Allergies got to Ko on her first trip to The Woodlands last year, where she missed the cut for the first time in 11 starts in the event. Bringing more allergy meds isn't the only change for the Kiwi in 2024, as her game is much better. She already has more wins (one) and top-5s (three) in six starts than her 2023 campaign.

1. Nelly Korda

Rolex Rankings: 1; Chevron starts: 8; Best finish: Playoff loss, 2020; '23 Finish : 3rd

Korda's game is the dreadnought of the LPGA after winning four events in five starts, and she sits in waters to let her talents flourish. With rain in the forecast, Carlton Woods portends to be another lengthy slog, requiring plenty of carry to maximize distance off the tee. With the 2021 Women's PGA champion's towering ball flight, Korda remains a heavy, heavy favorite.

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Nelly Korda is dominating the LPGA Tour and it's not even close

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PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler , who won his second green jacket at the Masters last week, isn't the only world No. 1 golfer dominating a professional tour right now.

Nelly Korda , No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking, has won in four consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour, becoming the first golfer since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to accomplish the feat. Korda is the first American golfer since Kathy Whitworth in 1969 to capture victories in four of her first five LPGA starts in a season.

At this week's Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, the first major championship of the season in women's professional golf, Korda will attempt to become only the third golfer in LPGA Tour history to win in five consecutive starts -- Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sörenstam (2004-05) were the others.

Even Scheffler, who captured his first nine PGA Tour victories since February 2022 and has already won three times this season, isn't winning at Korda's current pace.

Korda, 25, said she has been inspired by Scheffler's run the past three seasons.

"I mean, gosh, I don't think anyone can ever say anything bad about Scottie," Korda said. "I love his morals, I love his attitude out there. I just love the way he goes about his business. He inspires so many around him, including myself.

"So yeah, obviously, as he even said, he wants to win every tournament he tees it up in. That's every girl that's out here competing, too. I think that you just have to go about your business. You can get lost in the articles, lost in the expectations, but I think if you just stick to your true self, I feel like you can live in your own bubble and enjoy it a lot more."

Korda has long been considered one of the best players in golf. She has won 12 times on the LPGA Tour and three times in Europe. In 2021, Korda won four tournaments, including her first major at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club. Later that summer in Tokyo, she became the first American women's golfer to win a gold medal in the Olympics since Margaret Abbott in 1900.

Following that breakthrough season, Korda was diagnosed with a blood clot in her left arm and needed surgery in April 2022. She battled COVID-19 earlier that year and ended up missing about four months of the season. Last year, she was sidelined for about a month because of a lower-back injury and never regained her form. She didn't win in 2023, her first campaign in three years without a victory.

"Yeah, in 2021 I went on a run, and then in 2022 and 2023 golf really humbled me," Korda said. "I think [in] sports, there are ups and downs. Every athlete goes through the roller coaster, and that is what makes the sport so great. You mature and grow so much and learn more about yourself. You never take these weeks for granted."

What has made Korda's current streak so impressive is the many ways in which she has won this season.

"Yeah, I don't think I can put a scale to what she's accomplished," LPGA pro Rose Zhang said. "That's honestly just such an incredible feat. There is only one Nelly Korda, and I think she really shows how she's the best right now in the game. Even growing up I've always watched her play. There was obviously something special about her. So to see her do all that she's done, especially the last four events, it's been really inspiring. It's so difficult and it's so rare."

After tying for 16th in the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 21, Korda won the next week at the LPGA Drive On Championship in Bradenton, Florida. She came back from a 3-stroke deficit by carding an eagle and birdie on the final two holes to force a playoff. She defeated Lydia Ko on the second playoff hole to win in her hometown.

Korda skipped the LPGA Tour's Asian swing and took seven weeks off from competition. When she returned in late March, she battled Augusta National-like winds and chilly temperatures on the West Coast at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship. Korda made bogeys on her last two holes to fall into a playoff, in which she beat Ryann O'Toole on the first extra hole with a 12-foot birdie. Korda returned to No. 1 in the world for the sixth time in her career.

The next week at the Ford Championship presented by KCC in Gilbert, Arizona, Korda posted a 7-under 65 in the final round -- in steady rain no less -- to win her third straight tournament by 2 strokes. She became the first American women's golfer to get to three victories before April 1 since JoAnne Carner in 1980.

Two weeks ago at the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards in Las Vegas, Korda struggled early in the 54-hole stroke play competition to even advance to the match-play knockout rounds. She carded a 1-over 73 in each of the first two rounds before rallying for a 3-under 69 in the final round. She beat Angel Yin and Narin An to advance to a championship match against Ireland's Leona Maguire . Korda took four of the first seven holes and won the match 4 and 3 .

"This is definitely one of the best stretches I think a player has played in my 11 years on tour," said Ko, a 20-time winner on the LPGA Tour. "For her to win the second event of the year and have eight weeks off and win the next three, I was like, 'Man, I shouldn't have played, all playing for second place.'"

Korda's ballstriking has been on another level during her winning streak. Among golfers with at least 30 rounds played, she ranks first on the LPGA in strokes gained: total (2.76) and tee to green (2.21) and second around the green (.78). She is 10th off the tee (.76) and 17th in approach (.93).

Her putting isn't statistically as good (she ranks 46th in strokes gained on the greens) but she has made plenty of clutch putts to win.

"I'm not surprised, I will tell you that," U.S. Solheim Cup team captain Stacy Lewis said. "It's very impressive. Four very different golf courses, and the three weeks in a row I think was the most impressive. The amount of energy it takes to do that, I thought you would've maybe seen a little drop in play at match play just getting a little bit more tired.

"But the ballstriking has always been so good for her. Short game gets a little better, the confidence to be in that position. I think that's what you're seeing more now. ... I knew it was just going to be a matter of time."

Some of the most accomplished PGA Tour stars have envied Korda's silky-smooth and seemingly effortless swing.

When she competed with PGA Tour players at the QBE Shootout in Naples, Florida, in December 2022, Kevin Kisner called her the "Tiger Woods of the LPGA Tour." After watching her play, Max Homa said, "I don't know how she does not win every week."

At the PNC Championship, another exhibition that teams pros with their parents or children, Jordan Spieth said he told his father, Shawn, to "swing like Nelly."

"It's like playing with Adam Scott ," Spieth said, comparing Korda to the 2013 Masters champion, who is known for his nearly flawless swing.

In a perfect world, young golfers everywhere would be trying to "swing like Nelly"-- just like they're now trying to make 3-pointers like former Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark , whose sharp-shooting the past three seasons brought record TV ratings to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.

The LPGA is hoping that Korda's success and the growing popularity of women's sports can help it expand. The final two rounds of the Chevron Championship were broadcast on NBC for the first time last year and coverage will extend from four hours to six this year. There's also 40 hours of coverage of featured groups on ESPN+. Other non-major tournaments are broadcast on tape delay or only on streaming.

"I feel like we just need a stage," Korda said. "We need to be put on TV. I feel like when it's tape delay or anything like that, that hurts our game. Women's sports just needs a stage. If we have a stage we can show up and perform and show people what we're all about."

LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan recognizes the unique opportunity her tour must take advantage of. During a news conference at the Chevron Championship on Tuesday, she noted that the LPGA didn't have a marketing department not long ago.

Now, it has four or five people helping publicize the tour's stars. She said weekly social engagement numbers have improved from about four million a week in 2022 to about 11.6 million this year. The LPGA will roll out a new website this fall.

Along with the four remaining major championships and the upcoming Olympics in Paris and another Solheim Cup in Gainesville, Virginia, later this summer, Korda will have plenty of opportunities in the spotlight.

"We always talk about exposure and investment," Marcoux Samaan said. "Those are the things we need right now. There is no doubt that the product is world class. I mean, from Nelly Korda to Lilia [Vu] to Lydia, just down the leaderboard, these are the very best women in the world. So our job is to make sure people know who they are and make sure people can see them."

Whether Korda knows it or not, part of that burden falls on her shoulders, according to Lewis.

"I think Nelly does have a responsibility, and she probably doesn't always want it, just knowing her," Lewis said. "But it's saying, yes. Continuing to play great golf though is No. 1. That's what helps our tour the most is her playing great golf. I would tell her to remember that. I would tell her to do as much extra stuff as you can for us."

At times, Korda has been a reluctant superstar. This week, she has talked often about staying in her "bubble" to avoid distractions, even if she understands her power to influence the next generation of women's golfers. If Korda keeps winning, perhaps it won't be too long before young girls are trying to "swing it like Nelly" around the world.

"It's an inspiration," Korda said. "I'm hopefully inspiring the next generation and hopefully it promotes the game. Hopefully we continue to climb up. I just hope I show people how much I enjoy being out here week in and week out competing against all the girls, practicing, and hopefully that drives more attention to us.

"Listen, I feel like for me, the way that I promote the game is just the way I am. I'm very true to myself. I'm never going to do something I'm not really comfortable with. Obviously, I love seeing all the kids and I love promoting the game. I mean, there is nothing that I enjoy more. I'm always going to stay true to myself, and hopefully that way I do promote the game."

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Lydia Ko returns to top of Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings

New Zealander Lydia Ko claimed her third triumph on the LPGA Tour this year with victory in the CME Group Tour Championship; the 25-year-old overtook Nelly Korda to return to the No 1 spot for the first time since June 2017

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Lydia Ko moved up one spot to eclipse Nelly Korda as the No 1 player in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings on Monday.

This is the third time Ko, who notched three LPGA Tour victories and nine other top-five finishes in 2022, has reached the top spot.

Ko also held the No 1 position from February 2 to June 14, 2015, and from October 2015 to June 2017, and is now in her 105th week in total as the highest-ranked player in the world.

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"I'm very grateful to be world No 1 again," Ko said. "To be honest, I wasn't sure if I'd ever be back here again."

The New Zealander was just 17 when she ascended to the top spot seven years ago and became the youngest player, male or female, to reach No 1 in the world.

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She is currently fifth in most weeks spent at the summit of the rankings, one shy of Inbee Park's 106 weeks and four short of Yani Tseng's 109 weeks.

Lorena Ochoa's 158 weeks at world No 1 is the most in the history of the Women's World Golf Rankings, followed by Jin Young Ko's 152 weeks.

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Among her successes this year, Ko claimed the largest first-place prize in the history of women's golf of $2m for winning the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Her other triumphs came in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and the BMW Ladies Championship.

The 25-year-old, who has won 19 LPGA Tour titles, was named Race to the CME Globe champion and Rolex Player of the Year for the second time, and also took home the Vare Trophy, awarded to the player with the season's lowest scoring average, for the second straight year.

Ko is just two points away from being inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame too, finishing the year with 25 points towards the required total.

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Chevron Championship: Nelly Korda chasing fifth LPGA Tour win in row at first women's major of 2024

The United States is all agog with women's sport although the fascination has yet to extend to female golf stars despite the extraordinary feats of Nelly Korda.

This might change somewhat if the 25-year-old world number one collects her fifth straight win and second major title this week. Were she to succeed in the Chevron Championship here in Texas she would emulate the great Nancy Lopez in 1978.

Korda is the first American to win four consecutive tournaments on the LPGA since Lopez won five straight 46 years ago. This astonishing streak made the then rookie front page material for Sports Illustrated.

Lopez's run began at the Greater Baltimore Classic and included a major title at the LPGA Championship.

Right now the headlines are being dominated by basketball's Caitlin Clark, the number one pick in the recent WNBA's draft following her stellar college career with the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Her performances have garnered massive TV audiences - 18.9m - which was twice the number of people who watched Scottie Scheffler win the Masters last Sunday. At 9.6m, they represented a worrying drop of 20% on the previous year.

Korda's feats have yet to transcend the golfing village, and perhaps that suits her as she "tries to stay in my bubble". But the American Solheim Cup player does recognise that more could be done to tell the increasingly compelling story of women's golf.

"I feel like we just need a stage," she told reporters here at Carlton Woods just north of Houston. "We need to be put on TV.

"I feel like when it's tape delay, or anything like that, that hurts our game. Women's sports just needs a stage. If we have a stage we can show up and perform and show people what we're all about."

Korda has beaten every golfer she has faced on the LPGA Tour since the Drive On Championship at Bradenton Country Club in late January.

There has been a seven-week break in that spell, but she returned to win at Palos Verdes in California, the Ford Championship in Arizona and then the Match Play in Las Vegas.

Last week was an off week. She says she has never felt more tired and while she hit Florida's beaches, Scheffler - a similarly dominant figure in the men's game - was surging to his Masters triumph.

The expectation levels that accompanied the Augusta victor are similar to those surrounding Korda this week. "Gosh, I don't think anyone can ever say anything bad about Scottie," Korda told me.

"I love his morals, I love his attitude out there. I just love the way he goes about his business. He inspires so many around him, including myself.

"As he said, he wants to win every tournament he tees it up in. That's every girl that's out here competing, too.

"I think that you just have to go about your business. You can get lost in the articles, lost in the expectations, but I think if you just stick to your true self, I feel like you can live in your own bubble and enjoy it a lot more."

Korda realises this is a special time. But the Women's PGA champion of three years ago is still waiting for that second major title. It is surely just around the corner.

"In 2021 I went on a run, and then in 2022 and 2023 golf really humbled me," she said.

"There are ups and downs. Every athlete goes through the rollercoaster, and that is what makes the sport so great. You mature and grow so much and learn more about yourself.

"You never take these weeks for granted. You always try to appreciate and become very grateful for them.

"It makes just all the hard work so worth it. But I think I've learned so much about myself even through the losses."

Korda is likely to consult her yardage book for more than distance advice this week because she has written important motivational messages that have yielded a quartet of wins in this extraordinary run.

"They're private," she teased. "They were ones that (coach) Jamie Mulligan had me put in there.

"Actually the first week I had it was in Bradenton, the yardage book. I look at those sayings --there are four in there, and I look at those sayings almost every hole."

She will need to beat a first class field here including Lilia Vu, for whom this title was one of two major successes last year. Korda, who is above Vu at the top of the world rankings, was runner up 12 months ago so knows she can play well around this course.

Britain's best hope is Charley Hull, who was second to Vu at last year's AIG Women's Open, but the Englishwoman, ranked seventh in the world, may be hampered by a freak right ankle injury sustained while throwing a ball for her dog.

Farnham's Lottie Woad is also in the field, fresh from winning the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur title on the eve of Masters week.

But the coming days will be all about how Korda fares. Success would be a significant boost in the bid to popularise the women's game.

Her aims appear to be grounded in solid foundations. She said she intends to "enjoy every second of it", adding: "Careers go by really fast and there are so many highs and lows in.

"Just be grateful about it all and very humble."

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‘I’m Just Going to Vibe With It’: Nelly Korda One Shot Back at Chevron Championship

Korda enters the week on a four-event winning streak, and she’s in prime position at the first women’s major of the year.

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With all due respect to recent Masters champion Scottie Scheffler , the hottest player in golf is competing just outside Houston this weekend. 

And through 36 holes, she’s in position to ring up a fifth straight victory.

Scheffler has been incredible on the PGA Tour, but on the LPGA no one has beaten Nelly Korda for four consecutive events . On Friday at the Chevron Championship, the first women’s major of the year, Korda didn’t play her cleanest round but still shot a 3-under 69 to move to 7 under for the event, leaving her in prime position heading into the weekend: one shot back. 

“It takes a lot of patience to win. At the end of the day the person that makes the least amount of mistakes or recovers the best from their mistakes ends up usually winning,” she said.

Korda actually opened her second round with a double bogey that would shake the confidence of a player who doesn’t happen to possess supreme confidence entering that moment. Korda, as one might expect, was unfazed.

“I actually didn't feel bad at all,” she said of her opening double. “Sometimes when you start to make mistakes you just don't really feel confident or you don't feel that great. But I just kind of told myself that it's the first hole of the tournament today. Even though I may have made a double, I wanted to save a bogey. There is still so much golf to be played and there is still a good bit of gettable par-5s.

“So that's usually what I think about, is just the opportunities that I have ahead.”

After her opening wobble, Korda made birdies on 2 and 4, and after a bogey on 7 she bounced back with birdies on 8 and 9. She went bogey-free on the back nine thanks in part to a nice par escape on 14, when she drove it into thick grass right of the fairway, hacked out and drained a 12-footer that took a 360-degree trip around the rim before dropping.

. @NellyKorda absolutely grinding it out for the par-save She maintains her co-lead position at -6 💪 pic.twitter.com/q3cwSaR1Yy — LPGA (@LPGA) April 19, 2024

Korda is the first American to win four straight LPGA events since Nancy Lopez won five in a row during her nine-win rookie season in 1978.

Jin Hee Im and Atthaya Thitikul share the 36-hole lead at 8 under. Hae Ran Ryu is 6 under and solo fourth, two back of the lead and one behind Korda. Thitikul could be the most formidable of that group, as she entered the week No. 10 in the women’s world rankings and was the 2022 Rookie of the Year.  

But for now all eyes remain on Korda as she chases he 13th career title, fifth in a row and second major.

"I'm just at the halfway point right now. The amount of golf that I've played, I still have that to go. There is still a lot of golf left and anything can happen,” she said.

“Just going to stick to my process and vibe with it, is what my coach says.”

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Nelly Korda attempting record fifth straight LPGA win after opening with 68 at Chevron Championship 2024

The no. 1 player in the world is trying to stay grounded during a major championship amid an all-time run.

Nelly Korda is attempting to make history at the first women's major of the year, the 2024 Chevron Championship. Korda, who has stunned by winning four straight tournaments on the LPGA Tour, opened with a 2-under 68 on Thursday in an attempt to match the all-time consecutive wins streak of five set by Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05).

If Korda does achieve her fifth-straight win, she will also capture the second major championship of her career -- first since the 2021 Women's PGA Championship. Though she has been close since that victory with seven top 20s in 12 major appearances, she has not bee able to break through.

Korda's 68 trailed just one player -- Lauren Coughlin, who shot 66 -- after the first round. She sits T2 alongside Marina Alex and Minami Katsu.

"Definitely a little more tired today," Korda said. "I think those three weeks, I didn't think that it was going to drain me as much as it did maybe mentally. I was dead when I got home. I just didn't even leave my house for the first two days, which was nice, because I had contact naps with [my son] Greyson, which was just so wholesome and so amazing.

"I can definitely still feel maybe a little bit of tiredness, so it took me a while to get going. I felt the nerves definitely at the start of the round. Once I made the turn, I was just playing free golf."

Those three weeks refer to the Fir hills Seri Pak Championship, Ford Championship and T-Mobile Match Play across March and April, all of which Korda won. Throw in the LPGA Drive on Championship earlier in the year, and she has not lost to another professional golfer since the middle of January.

Majors are a different beast, though, and it's not so much a fifth consecutive victory that will be tough as it is winning any major. Throw in the fact that Korda got the tougher wave on Thursday, and her task appears monumental.

First round scoring by tee time today at the Chevron Championship Early: 72.34 Late: 74.18 Nelly Korda and Gabriela Ruffels had the only rounds in the 60s in the afternoon wave today. — Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) April 19, 2024

"I know it's always luck of the draw in a sense," she said. "But I've had my fair share of late early, early late, and you've just got to make the most of it. You can't really get too caught up in that, be like, 'Oh, I had the worse side of the draw or I have the better side of the draw.' You've just got to go out there and perform."

That's all Korda has been doing of late: performing. 

Superstardom is often presumed but rarely fulfilled. Living up to expectations is one of the most difficult feats in sports. Korda has struggled off and on with that throughout her career but seems to be stepping into a different level of play as a 25-year-old now holding 12 victories to her name after this torrid run.

Korda and Scottie Scheffler (who has won three of his last four tournaments, including a major) have been compared to one another. Korda noted that she's doing her best to learn from her failures and stay present in her successes. It's something we've heard from her peer dominating the men's side as well.

"In 2021, I went on a run. And then in 2022 and 2023, golf really humbled me," she said recently. "I think they're sports; there are ups and downs. Every athlete goes through the rollercoaster, and that is what makes the sport so great. You mature and grow so much and learn more about yourself.

"You never take these weeks for granted. You always try to appreciate and become very grateful for them. It makes just all the hard work so worth it. But I think I've learned so much about myself even through the losses."

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LPGA Tour rookie Jin Hee Im and 21-year-old Thai star Atthaya Thitikul share the 36-hole lead (-8) at The Chevron Championship after both shot 69-67 through the first two days at The Club at Carlton Woods. Heading into the second round, the two were T5 and three strokes out of Lauren Coughlin’s first-round lead before a bogey-free day from Im and a six-birdie, one-bogey round for Thitikul put the young players on top of the leaderboard heading into Moving Day.

Im is making her first-ever start in a major championship this week in The Woodlands and is now holding her first-ever lead or co-lead on the LPGA Tour. The 25-year-old earned Tour status for the 2024 season after finishing T17 at LPGA Q-Series in December. But even though she is a rookie, the Korean player has plenty of experience winning professional golf tournaments. Im is a six-time winner on the KLPGA Tour, earning four of those wins just last season.

“Everything was good last year (on the KLPGA), and I know the courses pretty well.  I played there five years,” said Im on her success in 2023. When asked why she chose to enter Q-Series to test her skill on the LPGA Tour, she said, “In KLPGA they retire a little bit earlier than --the players, they retire a little bit earlier than the LPGA, so I tried to play more in here. I want the challenge (of) more big tour. That's why I tried LPGA.”

So far this season, Im has played in just three events on Tour with a season-best finish of T27 at the FIR HILLS SERI PAK Championship. While that may seem like too few starts, Thitikul has even less in 2024. The 2022 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year is making her first appearance of the season here at The Chevron Championship, having recently recovered from a thumb injury that began a few weeks after the 2023 CME Group Tour Championship and was resolved just three weeks ago, according to Thitikul. Leaning on good memories from her T4 finish in last year’s playing of the major, Thitikul made up for lost time and made sure to appreciate the opportunity to compete on Tour.

“I think the rest now like is just a bonus for me. I mean, coming here this week I think making the cut is -- it's good enough because, you know, I wasn't be out here for so long,” she said. “Starting my season with major week is -- it's not that easy, so I think from now on it's just a bonus for me.  Just go out there, staying positive, and then also being out there smiling and then just do my best.”

Im was one of five players to go bogey-free on Friday, making birdie on three of the four par-5s (Nos. 4, 8 and 13) and carding two more on 6 and 17. Thitikul went out in 33 thanks to birdies on 5, 7 and 8, and then went birdie-bogey-birdie on 13, 14 and 15. She finished with a birdie on the par-5 18th to take the second 36-hole lead or co-lead of her Tour career. The last time she led after 36 holes, she won the 2022 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

Four-time 2024 Tour winner Nelly Korda sits one stroke back of Thitikul and Im at -7. She shot a second-round 69 on Friday and is one of just three players to post two rounds in 60s this week, along with the leaders. Korda is coming off her third-straight LPGA Tour victory and fourth in consecutive starts on Tour. With a win this week, she will tie Annika Sorenstam’s and Nancy Lopez’s record for most wins in consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour.  Although she is looking to add her name into the history books, Korda recognized there’s still a lot of golf left to play.

“I'm just at the halfway point right now. The amount of golf that I've played, I still have that to go,” said Korda when asked how she is handling the pressure of her historic run. “There is still a lot of golf left and anything can happen. Just going to stick to my process and ‘vibe with it,’ is what my coach says.”

Last season’s Rolex Rookie of the Year, Hae Ran Ryu, sits in solo fourth at -6. First-round leader Lauren Coughlin couldn’t find her opening-round rhythm but remains in the top-5 after a shooting a 1-over 73 on Friday. She shares the T5 spot with four other players including Sweden’s Maja Stark, Japan’s Minami Katsu, Korea’s Shinsil Bang, and Weiwei Zhang of the Republic of China. Sponsor exemption and the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Open champion Lottie Woad sits in a tie for 10th with seven other players at -4.

Seventy-three players made the cut at +2 following Friday’s round. Notables to miss the cut are past champions Patty Tavatanakit (2021), Jin Young Ko (2019), Pernilla Lindberg (2018), Lexi Thompson (2014), Stacy Lewis (2011), Yani Tseng (2010) and So Yeon Ryu (2017), who announced her retirement from the LPGA Tour following The Chevron Championship.

“I wanted to make sure this week is like celebrate week, not sad week. It's been very touching. Like a lot of people just came up to me and then congrats me and then give all the warm word to me. I just feel very blessed. You cannot really have this feeling often. Maybe this is my first and last. So I really tried my best to enjoy like all the thing. Even out there I tried to enjoyed having a thrill tee shot, tough chip shot, the nervousness when I had a birdie putt kind of stuff,” said Ryu. “I think I'm very satisfied with my week.”

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Tune in to watch as the LPGA Tour tees it up for their first major championship of the 2024 season.  The Club at Carlton Woods plays host to The Chevron Championship. The 132-player field, highlighted by 10 of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings, will compete for a $7.9 million purse. 

LPGA Vs PGA Tour Pros - How The Stats Compare

We look at the 2023 stats for the PGA Tour and LPGA and see how the best of the men's and women's game compare in everything from driving to putting

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The world of pro golf is littered with stats, almost every aspect of the game can now be measured in some way, and it makes interesting reading to compare the figures on the PGA and LPGA Tours.

With the upcoming golf ball rollback as reference as well, let's see what the main differences are in the stats categories for the main tours in the men's and women's games.

Driving distance

Breaking news, PGA Tour players hit it further than LPGA players do - I know, not exactly new information but a few little takeaways from the stats.

LPGA big hitter Polly Mack averages 10 yards further than the last placed Brian Stuard on the PGA Tour, and is within 20 yards of the PGA Tour average off the tee.

The top 10 in the women's game all managed to outdrive Staurd, with Lexi Thompson almost identical at just over 271 yards for her average off the tee.

And as Thompson showed playing on the PGA Tour that distance is almost good enough to make a cut, as she came agonisingly close to making the weekend.

Driving accuracy

Maybe due to slower swing speeds having more control, or more thought about placement off the tee with longer second shots, we've known for a while that finding fairways is a much bigger deal on the LPGA than the PGA Tour.

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It's a criticism of the men's game at times, the 'bomb and gouge' argument that PGA Tour players just smash it as far as they can and then worry about it from there, and there certainly seems to be less emphasis on finding the short stuff.

Remarkably, the player finishing in dead last in the LPGA fairways found stats is only just below the PGA Tour average, while men's leader Russell Henley would rank exactly 100th in the women's game with his fairways found percentage.

Greens in regulation

Not much to split them here which is interesting, with LPGA stars playing from the fairway more often but likely further away than their PGA Tour counterparts - the women's leader Olivia Cowan only just edges out Scottie Scheffler .

There's a slightly lower floor on the LPGA but all in all similar numbers, so despite differences off the tee the men and women are both finding the dancefloor at around about the same rate.

So who's the best at getting out of the sand? Well, Matt Kuchar is head and shoulder above everyone really, as second-placed Justin Rose isn't too far ahead of Mi Hyang Lee.

From the LPGA list 31 players would be above average on the PGA Tour, and while again the floor is lower in terms of the bottom number in the women's game, only the top three in the men's ranks have a better sand save percentage than women's leader Lee.

Pretty close in the overall average number of putts taken per round, but only the top five on the LPGA list duck under the PGA Tour average.

There's a similar gap between top to bottom as well interestingly, with about three shots separating the top spot and last place in each standings.

Scoring average

Scottie Scheffler unsurprisingly leading the way after his ultra consistent season, and Ludvig Aberg showcased his ability by finishing ahead of Jon Rahm in the PGA tour standings.

There's a shot and a quarter between Scheffler and LPGA leader Atthaya Thitikul, while 24 players in the women's standings dip below the PGA Tour average. 

Overall, there are 72 players in the PGA Tour list who average under under 70 compared to seven on the LPGA.

Birdie average

We've put a 50-round minimum on the LPGA to match-up to the PGA Tour standings, and we see that there's not much at all between the leaders on their respective tours.

Ludvig Aberg again leads the way on the PGA Tour with less than half a birdie per round between him and women's leader Atthaya Thitikul.

There are 13 LPGA players who average over four birdies a round compared to 46 on the PGA Tour.

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Nelly Korda 1 shot back through 36 holes at Chevron Championship as she chases 5th straight victory

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Nelly Korda, seeking to tie an LPGA Tour record with her fifth straight win, shot a 3-under 69 on Friday in the second round of the Chevron Championship, leaving her one shot behind leaders Atthaya Thitikul and Jin Hee Im in the year’s first major.

Korda began the day two shots off the lead after opening with a 68 at Carlton Woods. She got out to a tough start Friday, making a double bogey on the first hole before making birdies on two of the next three. She finished with six birdies , one bogey and the double to post 7-under 137.

“Started out with a double. That was fun,” Korda joked. “I hit two shots out of the left fairway bunker. Just kind of didn’t catch it super clean and it didn’t actually hit the bunker lining, just the grass, and bumped back in. Then I bounced back with a birdie and made a birdie on the following par 5. Kind of all over the place on the front nine, but pretty clean scorecard on the back with two birdies.”

The top-ranked Korda is seeking her second major after winning the Women’s PGA Championship in 2021. She could join Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) as the only players to win five consecutive LPGA events.

She was asked if it felt inevitable that she’d tie the record after her recent run of success and strong play in the first two rounds.

“I’m just at the halfway point right now. The amount of golf that I’ve played, I still have that to go,” she said. “There is still a lot of golf left and anything can happen. Just going to stick to my process and vibe with ... what my coach says.”

With increased attention on this tournament because of Korda’s string of titles, what would the 25-year-old like people who might be seeing her first time this weekend to know about her?

“That I just never give up,” she said. “No matter what, no matter how much adversity is thrown your way, they know that I never give up and I give it my all.”

Thitikul, a 21-year-old from Thailand who has won twice on the LPGA Tour, missed the beginning of this season with a thumb injury. She made six birdies and one bogey Friday to shoot 67, matching Im at 136.

Im is in her first season on the LPGA Tour after playing the Korean LPGA since 2018. She had a bogey-free 67.

Lydia Ko, who won this tournament in 2016 at Mission Hills in the California desert, shot 71 and was part of a big group four shots back. Ko missed the cut last year in the Chevron’s first season in Texas.

First-round leader Lauren Coughlin shot 73 to fall three shots off the pace.

Amateur Lottie Woad, a sophomore at Florida State, shot 69 and was 4 under through 36 holes in her first LPGA event. The 20-year-old from England earned a spot by winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur earlier this month.

“It’s definitely been a whirlwind,” Woad said. “Kind of didn’t really have a chance to let Augusta sink in really. Was just coming here straight away. I obviously took a lot of confidence from Augusta, so just trying to use that for this week.”

Woad is missing the ACC Championship with the Seminoles to compete in this tournament.

So Yeon Ryu shot 74 to miss the cut and end her competitive career. The two-time major champion announced before the event that she planned to retire after 13 LPGA seasons and six titles.

A group of friends, relatives and several other South Korean players greeted Ryu with flowers and Champagne as she came off the green.

“I’m just very numb,” she said. “I cannot believe this is real. Now I’m going to cry. (But I) tell myself I’m not going to cry because this is the day I need to be happy with.”

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