PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler, who won his second green jacket at the Masters last week, isn’t the only world No. 1 golfer dominating a professional tour right now.
Nelly Korda, No. 1 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking, has won in four consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour, becoming the first golfer since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to accomplish the feat. Korda is the first American golfer since Kathy Whitworth in 1969 to capture victories in four of her first five LPGA starts in a season.
At this week’s Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, the first major championship of the season in women’s professional golf, Korda will attempt to become only the third golfer in LPGA Tour history to win in five consecutive starts — Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sörenstam (2004-05) were the others.
Even Scheffler, who captured his first nine PGA Tour victories since February 2022 and has already won three times this season, isn’t winning at Korda’s current pace.
Korda, 25, said she has been inspired by Scheffler’s run the past three seasons.
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