The 2026 season has been sensational for Nelly Korda.
She has made eight begins claiming 4 wins and a trio of second positioned finishes. Extra importantly, two of these victories had been the 12 months’s first two main championships.
The 12 months had began together with her having one thing of an underwhelming main document.
Karrie Webb and Inbee Park, for instance, gained their seven majors of their first 40 begins – and Annika Sorenstam gained her tenth main in her forty eighth look.
Korda, in distinction, had began this 12 months with two win in 47 begins. Having gained the Chevron Championship and the US Ladies’s Open she is now on 4 in 49 which seems rather a lot higher.
There’s additionally a great opportunity of her including to her tally within the three majors to return. However the place does Korda already rank among the many best ladies golfers of all time?
Right here is our prime 10 in reverse order.
10. Nelly Korda
Sure, right here she is, simply sneaking into the highest 15. Korda has not solely gained 4 majors, she has additionally landed an Olympic gold.
9. Se Ri Pak
The Korean gained 5 majors and did so when Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb had been at their greatest. She additionally fuelled the nice rise of Korean golf.
8. Inbee Park
Her swing was not a factor of magnificence however her placing stroke was – actually she was the best putter in each the lads’s and ladies’s sport.
7. Karrie Webb
Australia’s best golfer and what number of extra majors would she have gained had she not performed in Sorenstam’s period? Because it was she gained seven of them.
6. Babe Zaharias
Not only a 10-time main winner, Zaharias gained two Olympic gold medals in monitor and subject, and excelled in baseball and basketball.
5. Patty Berg
You may’t argue with uncooked numbers. No-one has gained extra majors than Berg who landed 15 of them, however just one was the US Open. The Tom Morris of the ladies’s sport – triumphant in its early years.
4. Betsy Rawls
A four-time champion of the US Ladies’s Open and eight-time main winner. A relentless winner on the very prime of the sport.
3. Louise Suggs
Third within the all-time main winners record with two US Ladies’s Opens. The mom of the LPGA.
2. Annika Sorenstam
The fashionable sport’s best. She gained 72 instances on the LPGA (third of all time) with 10 main victories (fourth better of all time). However she confronted deeper fields than those that gained greater than her.
1. Mickey Wright
Wright was astounding. She gained 82 instances on the LPGA and is second to Berg with 13 main wins together with 4 US Ladies’s Opens. Broadly seen as the best of all of them.
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