Nelly Korda Goes Back-to-Back in Mexico, Captures 18th LPGA Tour Title

If Nelly Korda keeps this pace, she’ll enter the all-time greats conversation far sooner than expected.

In just her sixth start of the season, the World No. 1 (who just regained the rank last week after Chevron) has collected her third win, and has yet to place outside of the top-two this entire year.

It's difficult to not compare her red-hot start to what we saw from Korda in 2024, winning five consecutive times en route to a seven title season, but this feels different, because she seems different.

This version of Nelly Korda is more relaxed. When asked if she feels like she's living the best moments of her career, she had this to say, "In 2024 I won five in a row and my fifth one was a major...I can't say that one moment in my career was the best. I think all of them have had a different meaning and all of them have been so great in different ways. I'm just happy to be competing out here healthy, motivated. You know, I'm so happy on the golf course. I'm happy off the golf course."

And that happiness is palpable. With her same team around her, including her fiancee Casey, this version of Nelly seems more comfortable as someone who has the privilege of watching her up close and in action for the past several years.

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En route to her 18th career victory, Korda set the new 72-hole tournament scoring record at the Riviera Maya Open with a total score of 271 (17-under par). She hit 52 out of 72 (or 72 percent) of greens in regulation for the week, to go a combined total of 13-under on par 5s through four rounds.

Korda recorded only two bogeys through 72 holes, the fewest in the field and was the only player to have all four rounds in the 60s.

And how's this for a fun little tidbit per Beth Ann Nichols of Golfweek. Only three times in LPGA history has a player won by five or more shots after winning a major: Lorena Ochoa (2008 Corona Championship, 11 shots), Louise Suggs (1952 All-America Women's Open, 9 shots) and Se Ri Pak (1998 Jamie Farr Kroger, 9 shots).

It can't be easy to keep your mind steady when these records and stats come flying at you left and right, but Korda seems to managing just fine.

"I just think that, yes, I am living my best life for sure. But golf also humbles you, so I know that I need to enjoy these moments," she continued to say in her winning presser. "There have been so many times that legends have told me it smell the roses, so now I have a week off and I can officially smell the roses for a few days."

Korda will play one more time before the U.S. Women's Open at Riviera, at the Kroger Queen City Championship, but first she'll return home to Florida to relax and go to a hot yoga class.