Nelly Korda and her older sister, Jessica, are both on Tour. Her parents, Petr Korda and Regina Raichrtova, were both international tennis stars.
On her second year on Tour in 2018, she won the Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by CTBC, becoming a Rolex First-Time Winner and crossing the $1 million mark in career earnings. She has won seven times and reached number one in the Women’s World Golf Rankings. Korda won the Olympic gold medal at the women’s individual golf event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.