Chevron Championship: Can Nelly Korda equal LPGA Tour record with her second major triumph?
Nancy Lopez in 1978. Annika Sorenstam in 2005. If Nelly Korda triumphs this week’s Chevron Championship, she will join an elite group of players to have won a record five consecutive LPGA Tour starts. By coincidence, both World Golf Hall of Fame inductees completed the feat with a major championship success.
Lopez set a new mark for wins on consecutive starts in the LPGA Championship - now titled the KPMG Women's PGA Championship - and Sorenstam equalled it in the upcoming event under its previous guise of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills.
It would therefore be apt for Korda to match the record in the first women's major of the year, these days played at The Woodlands in Texas rather than its prior California home, and the 25-year-old hopes her eye-catching winning streak is serving to inspire in the same manner as her forerunners.
"I just love competing," Korda said. "I love golf, I hopefully am inspiring the next generation. " But there is no greater thrill for me than competing and being out here and seeing the girls and going head-to-head for a title.