Korda claimed her first win on tour at the Taiwan Championship in 2018, while 2021 was truly her breakout season as she secured four LPGA titles, including a first major success at the Women’s PGA Championship.
That victory, by three strokes over Lizette Salas at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia, catapulted Korda to world No 1 for the first time and, just two months later, she won gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Her progress was hampered, however, by the revelation of a blood clot in her arm in March 2022 that would see her miss out on that year’s Chevron Championship, while persistent back problems also limited Korda’s success on tour to just one victory in over two years prior to her sudden win streak to kick-start 2024.
But her recent run is far from a fluke. Following the first of her victories at the LPGA Drive On Championship, when squeezing over the line in a play-off with Lydia Ko after bogeying her final two holes, Korda opted to take the next seven weeks off to dedicate herself to a new fitness regime.
“That was an aspect that I really wanted to work on and it’s been paying off quite well,” Korda has said of her self-imposed break. “I don’t want to train like a golfer, I want to train like an athlete. Thankfully my team and I, we all have the same outlook on it.”
