Gainbridge LPGA

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club | Lake Nona, Orlando, Fla. | Feb. 25-28, 2021

Hometown/Resides: Bradenton, Fla./Sarasota, Fla.

Birthdate: July 28, 1998; currently 22 years, 7 months

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished ninth on the Epson Tour’s 2016 Volvik Race for the Card to first earn LPGA Tour status

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2016/2017

VICTORIES

LPGA: Fourth career victory

PREVIOUS LPGA WINS: 2018 Swing Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by CTBC, 2019 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, 2019 Taiwan Swing Skirts LPGA Presented by CTBC

RACE TO THE CME GLOBE

With her win, Korda earns 500 points and is projected to move to first in the Race to the CME Globe

MONEY

With her win, Korda earns $300,000; she has earned $4,147,605 for her career

PREVIOUS GAINBRIDGE LPGA RESULT

2020 – T28

2021 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE

Two events, two cuts made, $409,051 earned, a win and a top-three finish

2020 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE

12 events, 10 cuts made, $575,894 earned, three top-five finishes and an additional top-10 result

OF NOTE

Korda is the second player from the United States to win in 2021, joining sister Jessica (Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions)
This is her fourth career victory and her first on home soil
She surpasses the $4 million mark in career earnings ($4,147,605)
With sister Jessica, is one of three sister duos to both win on the LPGA Tour, along with the Jutanugarns and the Sorenstams
First sister duo to win consecutive events since Annika and Charlotta Sorenstam did in 2000; Annika won the Welch’s/Circle K Championship on March 13 and Charlotta won the Standard Register PING on March 19
Her parents, Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtová, were international tennis stars, with her father winning the Australian Open and her mother representing the former Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Her younger brother, Sebastian Korda, is 92nd in the ATP Tennis rankings and reached the fourth round at the 2020 French Open major tennis tournament

In The Winner’s Circle with Nelly Korda - Gainbridge LPGA

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