LPGA player Nelly Korda “triumphed at Riviera Country Club” and won the U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday. The win was the 27-year-old’s first USWO and marks her second straight major win after claiming the Chevron Championship in April and fourth major overall. Korda is the “youngest American player to win four major championships since Mickey Wright in 1960” (GLOBAL GOLF POST, 6/8). The win “further cemented” Korda’s place as the “definitive, transcendent alpha figure women’s professional sports have long craved” (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 6/7).
The win for Korda was the “biggest moment in women’s golf” since Michelle Wie West won the U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2014. USGA CEO and former LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said Korda is “the needle mover that makes people outside of golf pay attention.” Korda “became the first American woman to win the U.S. Women’s Open while ranked No. 1″ since the Rolex Rankings debuted in 2006 and the “first American to win the first two majors of the season since Pat Bradley in 1986″ (GOLFWEEK, 6/7). The biggest question is whether the LPGA can “capitalize on a moment that feels much bigger than Nelly’s run in 2024?” (GOLF.com, 6/7).
