2024 was a great season to say the least for LPGA Tour superstar Nelly Korda. She won seven times, including five in a row. She got her second-career major at The Chevron Championship, won her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award, was essential to the United States Solheim Cup team and stamped her spot as the undisputed biggest star in women’s golf.
With her incredible 2024, conversations have started to bubble up about her seemingly inevitable future spot in the LPGA Hall of Fame. These talks just increase considering Lydia Ko earning her spot in 2024 with her victory at the Paris Olympics.
It is possible for the 26-year-old Korda to get to the required 27 points by the end of 2025. If she has the same season she did in 2024, she will get to that number. The LPGA Hall of Fame is arguably the most difficult hall of fame in all sports, made even more difficult by the LPGA Tour getting more competitive each year. Yet, Korda seems to be that type of transcendent player that comes around only a couple times per generation.
The last two seasons where Korda has been relatively healthy were 2024 and 2021. In both of those seasons Korda led or co-led the LPGA Tour in hall of fame points earned. She got six in 2021 and a startling nine in 2024. Another season with six would put Korda just two points shy.
Korda’s total number sits at 19. 13 come from her standard LPGA Tour victories. She has two points for each of her two major championships. She has also gotten one for her win at the Tokyo Olympics and one for her LPGA Tour Player of the Year award. The only part of hall of fame criteria she hasn’t yet earned is the Vare trophy, but that is also because of not meeting minimum round thresholds.
It feels safe to call Korda the favorite to win at least a few events on the schedule. She starts at the Tournament of Champions at Lake Nona in the Orlando area, a course she won at in 2021 in dominant fashion. She then heads to her hometown of Bradenton for the Founders Cup, where she won in 2024. In March she is back in Palos Verdes where she won in 2024 and at the T-Mobile Match Play, where she won in 2024, it is always unwise to count her out of that format.
Nobody has proven to play the Chevron Championship better than Korda since its location change, with her finishing top three in both playings and winning in 2024. In June, the LPGA Tour goes to the Meijer LPGA Classic in Belmont, Michigan, where Korda has a very strong history. Finally, the Annika Driven by Gainbridge at Pelican has been a personal play ground for Korda, winning three of the last four playings.
The path is there for Korda to once again stack a lot of wins and potentially another Player of the Year award. Regardless of if it happens in 2025 or 2026, it seems inevitable for Korda to join that legendary group in the very near future.
