By: Max Bechtoldt
Another week another win for Nelly Korda. Korda has now won four tournaments in a row dating back to January 25. She has persevered through difficult weather, two playoffs and different formats to open up an almost insurmountable lead in the LPGA Tour Player of the Year race.
On Sunday at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, Korda defeated Leona Maguire in the T-Mobile Match Play final match. Korda never trailed across all three matches she played. In the finals she beat Maguire 4&3, yet it never felt that close. Through seven holes Korda was up 5 on one of the best match play competitors in the world.
Korda’s putter has never looked better, especially within 10 feet. If she wins her fifth tournament in a row at the first major of the year, the Chevron Championship, putting will be a huge factor. In 2023 Korda finished in third, one shot out of the playoff. She had 120 putts for the week. We all know nobody is better tee to green than Korda on the tour, this level of putting has made her unbeatable.
Korda joins only two players to have won four tournaments in a row in the last 25 years. The two greatest players of the modern era, Hall of Famers Annika Sörenstam and Lorena Ochoa. Sörenstam got to five in a row at a previous incarnation of the Chevron Championship, winning the 2005 Kraft Nabisco Championship by eight strokes.
This is now Korda’s second career season with four wins, after her dominant 2021 season. But even in 2021, when Korda won her first major, the Olympic Gold Medal and reached world No. 1 for the first time, her game never looked this flawless.
