Nelly Korda wraps up season in which she won seven times, was LPGA Player of Year | D’Angelo
NAPLES — Nelly Korda won five events in a row early in 2024, seven overall. She clinched the LPGA Player of the Year with three tournaments remaining, was a member of the winning U.S. Solheim Cup team and captured her second major.
At the age of 26, she cracked the top 20 in career earnings and took home just shy of $4.4 million this year.
Oh, and she was the subject of a photo shoot for the Sports Illustrated 2025 Swimsuit edition and played in a pro-am with basketball superstar Caitlin Clark.
But when asked for a favorite moment from 2024, on or off the course, all of that was secondary.
“Becoming an aunt to little Greyson would be my favorite, obviously off the golf course,” she said.
Greyson is the 9-month-old son of Korda’s sister, Jessica, and her husband, Johnny DelPrete, who live in Jupiter.
Jessica is a six-time winner on the LPGA Tour who has been top 10 in the world. But in the Korda family, that’s dinner table conversation with dad Petr, a former world No. 2 in men’s tennis, and brother Sebastian, currently No. 23 in Men’s Tennis ATP Rankings.
And, of course, Nelly, who has held the top spot in the Rolex Rankings for the last eight months.
Nelly Korda ‘such a good auntie’ to Jessica’s son
Jessica, 31, calls Nelly “such a good auntie.” Her praise was even more effusive when asked about her sister’s season.
The one word she kept circling back to: “Insane.”
