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World No. 1 Nelly Korda has clinched Rolex Player of the Year honors with three occasions remaining within the LPGA Tour season and moved inside one level of entry into the LPGA Hall of Fame.
Korda, 28, earns one level as recipient of the annual award, which she additionally gained in 2024 with three occasions left on the schedule.
She now could be 26 factors towards the 27-point threshold to turn out to be the thirty sixth participant within the corridor of fame. Korda can achieve factors for successful an official LPGA Tour occasion (one) or main championship (two), capturing the Vare Trophy (one) or incomes an Olympic gold medal (one).
Korda is ineligible for the Vare Trophy for low scoring common on tour as a result of she has performed solely 53 so far of the required 70 rounds this season.
She didn’t enter this week’s Toto Japan Classic, leaving two official tour occasions left in 2026: the Annika pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican on Nov. 12-15 in Belleair, Fla., and the CME Group Tour Championship on Nov. 19-22 in Naples, Fla.
Korda has 4 wins this season — together with main titles at Chevron and the U.S. Women’s Open — and 10 top-10 finishes. She has made 14 of 15 cuts and picked up $6.2 million in official earnings.
She leads the Race the CME Globe standings with 3,713.875 factors and mathematically can’t be caught by the closest opponents Miyu Yamashita of Japan (3,183.626), Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand (2,915.375), Haeran Ryu (2,745.358) of South Korea and Ruoning Yin (2,481.993) of China.
Ryu withdrew from the Maybank Championship final week in Malaysia attributable to an damage earlier than the primary spherical and didn’t enter this week’s Toto Japan Classic. Yamashita and Thitikul didn’t enter the Annika.
Korda has not competed for the reason that Solheim Cup on Sept. 11-13 and never on tour for the reason that FM Championship on Aug. 27-30 in Norton, Mass.
For her profession, Korda has 19 victories and has $22.3 million in official earnings.
–Field Level Media