Nelly Korda’s Magic: LPGA Star Unveils the Key to Her Record-Breaking Season

There is nobody like Nelly Korda! No, truly! After 14 months of being winless, she bounced back, and in such a way that she has been unstoppable. She recently provided insights into the key adjustments to her training regimen that have contributed to her extraordinary success. She has just recently tied for the record for most consecutive wins at the LPGA Tour, with 5 consecutive wins. In an open discussion on YouTube, Korda described the changes that revolutionized her game with her longtime friend, fellow golfer, and YouTuber Ryan Ruffels.

Korda acknowledged that, particularly mentally, the year before this one was among the hardest in her career. She worked harder than she had ever worked, but she was not happy with her performance. But this year, after re-evaluating and reorganizing her strategy, she managed to make things right. She made a lot of adjustments, but one of the biggest ones was her practice routine, especially when it came to competitions.

To address her performance problems, she found herself practicing a lot at tournaments last year and doing extra work and drills all the time. She came to the understanding that her intense focus on technique during competitions was counterproductive. Korda explained, “Before, I would always be like, ‘When I’m at a tournament, it’s not my time to practice, it’s my time to play.’ But last year, I was out there practicing, doing drills, or doing extra because I thought I wasn’t performing well.”

Another crucial aspect Korda highlighted was the importance of creativity in the course. She became aware of how her creativity had been limited by her obsessive attention to technique. She made an effort to rediscover her creativity this year since it’s crucial for handling golf’s unexpected nature. “If I’m not hitting it good that day, I can still shoot well. I need to work on my creativity because I feel like when I started working on technique so much, I lost the creativity,” she said.