Biography
Nelly Korda is the daughter of former Czech tennis players - 1998 Australian Open champion Petr Korda and Olympian Regina Rajchrtova - and has gone on to top the world rankings in women's golf. Nelly followed elder sister Jessica into professional golf while brother Sebastian is making waves on the tennis circuit.
In 2016, Nelly Korda was the world's top-ranked junior before turning pro. She quickly made her mark by winning the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge on the LPGA Futures Tour. By finishing ninth on the money list, she secured a LPGA Tour card for 2017.
It was not until 2018 that she claimed her first LPGA Tour title, at the LPGA Taiwan Championships. In early 2019, she won the Australian Open to break into the top 10 of the world rankings. Two more wins followed that year as she took the French Open on the Ladies European Tour (LET) before retaining her LPGA Taiwan title.
Nelly Korda: Olympic triumph and LPGA domination
The Florida native dazzled in 2021. In February, she won the Gainbridge LPGA by three strokes from former world number one Lydia Ko and Lexi Thompson. Four months later, she claimed the Meijer LPGA Classic and backed that up the following week with her first major triumph at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in Atlanta to become world number one.
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