Nelly Korda capped her greatest season by capturing the highest two honors Wednesday on the Rolex LPGA Awards in Naples, Florida.
The 26-year-old Florida native obtained the Rolex Participant of the 12 months Award and the Rolex Annika Main Award, which works to the key winner who had the very best total ends in the season’s large 5 occasions.
Korda received seven occasions in 2024, together with the Chevron Championship, her second profession main title.
“It has been loopy, it has been such a enjoyable yr, filled with ups and downs, however I’m so, so grateful for my staff sitting proper right here,” Korda mentioned. “It has been an incredible yr and I am so grateful to be doing what I really like.”
Korda entered the yr with six profession LPGA event wins however she added victories on the LPGA Drive On Championship, the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship, the Ford Championship, the T-Cell Match Play, the Mizuho Americas Open and The Annika along with the Chevron Championship.
She missed the reduce at each the U.S. Ladies’s Open and the Ladies’s PGA Championship earlier than tying for twenty sixth on the Evian Championship and tying for second on the Ladies’s British Open.
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With Lilia Vu having received Participant of the 12 months in 2023, U.S. golfers have captured the glory in consecutive years for the primary time since Betsy King and Beth Daniel did so in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko was awarded the Heather Farr Perseverance Award, given for “exhausting work, dedication and love of the sport of golf.” Ko, 27, earned the gold medal on the Paris Olympics to change into the youngest participant to earn Corridor of Fame standing for the reason that present format went into place.
Ko’s three victories this yr included a significant, the Ladies’s British Open.
“2024 has felt like a fairytale, one phrase, fairytale,” Ko mentioned. “I am unable to consider it, even now whereas taking a look at a number of the highlights. I nonetheless get goosebumps.”
Ally Ewing obtained the Founders Award, given to the participant who greatest “exemplifies the spirit, beliefs and values of the LPGA by her habits and deeds.”
Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, and Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A, got the Commissioners Award. The glory acknowledges “an individual or group that has contributed uniquely to the LPGA and its Members, furthered the reason for girls’s golf, and possesses character and requirements of the very best order.”
Gale Peterson, a educating professional at Sea Island Golf Efficiency Middle in St. Simons, Ga., received the Ellen Griffin Rolex Award.
First-time LPGA event winners Bailey Tardy, Linnea Strom and Lauren Coughlin additionally had been acknowledged.
