World No 1 Nelly Korda has been topped the 2024 Rolex Participant of the 12 months with three occasions to spare after a dominant season on the LPGA Tour.
The Rolex Participant of the 12 months award was launched in 1966 and sees gamers awarded factors at every official LPGA Tour match, based mostly on top-10 finishes, with double factors on provide for the 5 girls’s majors.
Korda gained six instances in a seven-tournament stretch and added three extra top-10s throughout the LPGA Tour marketing campaign, giving her an unassailable lead over closest challenger Ayaka Furue within the season-long race.
The 26-year-old additionally has a commanding lead on the high of the world rankings and had already wrapped up the Rolex Annika Main Award for her performances within the majors, with Korda now following Lilia Vu as back-to-back American winners of the Participant of the 12 months award.
“Winning the Rolex Player of the Year means so much to me,” Korda mentioned. “This season has had its highs and challenges, and I am simply actually grateful for the folks round me who’ve helped me get right here.
“It’s been a team effort, and I’m proud to share this moment with them.”
Korda opened her eighth LPGA Tour season with a tie for sixteenth on the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions earlier than profitable every of her subsequent 5 begins, equalling the file for many consecutive LPGA Tour titles.
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Highlights from day 4 of the the Chevron Championship in Texas, the place Nelly Korda impressed to say her second profession main win
She gained the LPGA Drive On Championship, the FIR HILLS SERI PAK Championship, the Ford Championship introduced by KCC and the T-Cellular Match Play introduced by MGM Rewards, forward of securing her second main title on the Chevron Championship.
Korda’s profitable streak briefly halted with a tied-seventh end on the Congnizant Founders Cup, just for her to return to the winner’s circle on the Mizuho Americas Open in her subsequent begin.
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Nelly Korda has had a nightmare begin on the US Ladies’s Open, with an LPGA Tour career-high rating of 10 on the par-3 twelfth gap throughout her opening spherical
The American skilled a drop in type over the summer season, lacking three consecutive cuts and failing to content material at each the Amundi Evian Championship and the Olympics, earlier than narrowly dropping out to Lydia Ko and claiming tied-second on the AIG Ladies’s Open.
She added a top-five end on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship forward of representing Workforce USA on the Solheim Cup, the place she helped the hosts to their first win since 2017 and a three-point victory over Workforce Europe at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership.
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Charley Hull dominated Nelly Korda 6&4 to publish the primary level of the day for Europe within the Solheim Cup as they tried to mount a comeback throughout the Sunday singles
Furue had the potential to catch Korda by ending the LPGA Tour season with 4 consecutive victories, though her unlikely bid ended when she didn’t win the Toto Japan Traditional on Sunday.
Korda will settle for the Rolex Annika Main Award and the Rolex LPGA Awards on Wednesday November 20 forward of the CME Group Tour Championship, beginning the next day and stay on Sky Sports activities Golf.
Who will win the LPGA Tour’s Race to CME Globe? Watch the conclusion of the 2024 season stay on Sky Sports activities. The CME Group Tour Championship is stay from November 21-24 on Sky Sports activities Golf.
