Nelly Korda won her third career major championship in a blow-out at The Chevron Championship. Winning in wire-to-wire fashion, Korda never led by less than four strokes the entire weekend (and led by six strokes at times), before finishing with a comfortable five shot victory.

Korda exploded out of the gates with back-to-back 65s in the first two rounds. She seemed destined to keep the magic going in the third round after starting with four birdies in six holes, but she cooled off considerably, finishing with a 70 and a five-shot lead. Coming into the final round with a large lead, Korda showed few nerves, going bogey-free through 11 holes before finishing with a final round 70 and a cannon-ball into the make-shift Poppie’s Pond (or, for this year, Poppie’s Pool).

Korda’s five shot lead over Patty Tavatanakit was the largest margin of victory at the Chevron Championship since Lauren Ochoa won by the same margin in 2008. Korda also narrowly missed breaking Dottie Pepper’s tournament scoring record by one shot.

Korda’s win at the Chevron continues what has been a remarkable start to her season. She has already won twice this year, and in the other three events she didn’t win, she came second. In just five events, she has played in the final group on Sunday every single time.

Statistically, Korda has blown away the field, ranking first in total strokes gained, strokes gained tee to green, strokes gained off the tee and strokes gained approach. The only area where she hasn’t dominated is on the green; she now ranks 77th on the LPGA for strokes gained putting. That number may sound bad, but consider she actually moved up five spots this week. Before the Chevron, Korda ranked 82nd on the greens. Imagine how good she could be if she could putt?

And that may be what is scariest about her week, at least from her fellow player’s perspective. In her first round, Korda finished with 24 putts, and in her second she had just 27. The putter cooled off over the weekend, as she finished with 32 putts on both Saturday and Sunday (and missed a few make-able putts down the stretch), but the prospect of adding elite putting to her incredible ball striking let’s you believe this could be a historic season.

Of course, Korda isn’t quite ready to admit the putting is all the way fixed yet.

“What I was telling myself was I really want to hoist this trophy because I want to show the kids at home that it’s okay to miss short putts and still win a major championship,” Korda joked after her win.

Hit the Sweet Spot: At this point, it’s fair to start wondering if Korda can set a new career high for tournaments won this season. In 2024 she dazzled with seven wins in just 16 starts, and while she hasn’t quite measured up to that pace this year, it doesn’t seem out of the question she could get close, or even pass that total, again.

In 2024, she won five straight events, ending with the Chevron Championship. Korda is now three shy of that pace at the same point in the year, but she hasn’t been far off.

And even if she can’t match the total victories of 2024, she may at least be able to beat her performance in the majors. Despite winning seven times, Korda missed the cut in two of the five majors that season, while finishing T-26 and T-2 in the others.

The next major on the schedule is the US Women’s Open in June at Riviera Country Club. Riviera is an incredible course, but it also typically features brutally quick greens. If the same Nelly Korda that played the first two rounds at the Chevron comes out at the US Open, we might be in for another blowout victory.