By Sasha Colcheck
Sunday, March 24, 2024
FIR HILLS SERI PAK Championship
Palos Verdes Golf Club | Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. | March 21-24, 2024
In the Winner’s Circle with Nelly Korda
March 24, 2024
Hometown/Resides: Bradenton, Fla.
Birthdate: July 28, 1998; currently 25 years and 7 months and 25 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished ninth in the Epson Tour’s 2016 Race for the Card to first earn LPGA Tour status
Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2016/2017
Caddie: Jason McDede
VICTORIES
LPGA: 10th career victory
PREVIOUS WINS: 2018 Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by CTBC, 2019 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, 2019 Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA presented by CTBC, 2021 Gainbridge LPGA, 2021 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, 2021 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, 2021 Pelican Women’s Championship, 2022 Pelican Women’s Championship, 2024 LPGA Drive On Championship
LET: Three victories
RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
With her win, Korda earns 500 CME Points and will remain in the top-five in the Race to CME Globe Points List
MONEY
With her win, Korda earns $300,000; she has earned $586,716 this season and $9,523,989 in official career earnings
PREVIOUS FIR HILLS SERI PAK CHAMPIONSHIP/PALOS VERDES GC RESULTS
2023 – T5
2024 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE
Three events played, three cuts made; $586,716 earned with two wins and an additional T16 finish
OF NOTE
- She is projected to become Rolex Rankings No. 1 for the sixth time in her LPGA Tour career
- She last held the top spot in the world from July 31-August 13, 2023
- She earns her 10th win on Tour and her second this season, following the LPGA Drive On Championship
- She would earn wins in back-to-back starts for the second time in her career, along with her wins at the 2021 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give and KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
- She is the first player to win in back-to-back starts since Celine Boutier won the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship and the Women’s Scottish Open
- This is her third Tour season with multiple victories
- She won twice in 2019 and three times in 2021
- She becomes the 39th different player from the United States to earn double-digit victories on Tour
- She is the first American to win twice before April since Stacy Lewis in 2012
- With the $300,000 winner’s check, she moves past Laura Davies on the All-Time Official Money List to No. 28
- This is her eighth season on the LPGA Tour
- She has made 113 cuts in 130 starts and has earned 10 wins and 47 additional top-10 finishes over her career
- She is the defending gold medalist after the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
- She is a three-time member of the United States Solheim Cup Team (2019, 2021, 2023)
- She also represented the United States at the 2023 Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown
- She has won on the Ladies European Tour three times
- Most recently, she claimed the individual title at the Aramco Team Series-London in 2023
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