Nelly Korda makes it seven wins for the season
Nelly Korda – wins her 7th title of the season
The LPGA Tour heads to Naples in Florida this week for the season-ending event on that tour, the CME Tour Championship.
The leading 60 players in the Race to the CME Globe rankings at the completion of this past week’s event, The ANNIKA in Florida, assemble at the Tiburon Golf Club to chase part of the US$11 million purse and one New Zealander and four Australians have made the field.
Lydia Ko in 3rd position, Hannah Green (6th), Gabi Ruffels (30th), Grace Kim (46th) and Minjee Lee (54th) all get their chance for one final payday in this LPGA Tour season.
Stephanie Kyriacou (62nd) and Hira Naveed (72nd) will miss out on a start but they can rest easy in the knowledge that by finishing inside the top 100 in the rankings they have secured their LPGA Tour status for 2025.
Ko has been the standout amongst that group, winning the season opener in Orlando and later winning the Gold Medal at the Olympics in Paris, the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews and the Kroger Queen City event in Ohio and is in 4th place in the Rolex World rankings after beginning the year in 31st place.
The winner this week was Nelly Korda who recorded an amazing 7th win for the season taking her earnings beyond US$4 million with one lucrative event to come..
Korda made a blistering start to the season, winning six of her first eight events before a relative slump through the middle of the year.
Korda regained her lost form late in the season, finishing 5th and runner-up in her last two starts before her win today.
“Just makes me really, really grateful for my team,” said the winner when asked to compare this win with those earlier in the year.
“The middle of the year was very, very tough part of the year, but I’m so grateful to have people that I can lean on. That will be with me through the hard times. I feel like in the world of sports when someone is going through a hard time, aka the player, people tend to search for something better.
“My people stuck with me and grinded out the hard times and for that I’m super grateful.”
