Nelly Korda Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Net Worth, Career & Championships

Nelly Korda is an American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She has won 14 tournaments and reached number one in the Women’s World Golf Rankings. Korda won the gold medal in women’s golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She has also represented the United States in the Solheim Cup in 2019, 2021, and 2023. She has recently appeared at the Met Gala 2024 festivities.

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Nelly Korda Wiki/Bio

Nelly’s real name is Nelly Ann Korda, who was born on 28 July 1998 in Bradenton, Florida, USA, and is 25 years old as of 2023. Her height and zodiac signs are 5′ 10″ inches and Cancer respectively. She holds American nationality and follows the Christian faith. Her weight is around 60 kg. ¹

Nelly Korda Education

Nelly is an educated golf player but it seems that she doesn’t share her academic achievements on social media.

Nelly Korda Parents

Nelly is the daughter of retired Czech tennis players Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtová and her mother was also a professional athlete. Her father won the 1998 Australian Open. Her younger brother, Sebastian Korda won the boys’ title at the 2018 Australian Open. Her older sister, Jessica Korda is also an LPGA Tour golfer. In 2021, Korda was featured on Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ list for top earners under 30, ranking 23rd. ²

Nelly Korda Husband

Nelly is in a relationship with Andreas Athanasiou. They started their relationship in 2019 and announced it with an Instagram post about Thanksgiving, which has since been deleted. But she is not married yet she has no husband.

Nelly Korda Career Achievements

Nelly Korda played in the 2015 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup. As an amateur, she won the 2015 Harter Hall Invitational and the PING Invitational and was named a 2015 AJGA Rolex Junior All-American. She also cut the 2013 U.S. Women’s Open.

Korda started her professional journey in 2016 on the Symetra Tour. She won her first pro event at the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge and finished three strokes ahead of Wichanee Meechai. She ended the season 9th on the money list, earning her LPGA Tour card for 2017. ³

In 2016, Nelly was the world’s top-ranked junior golfer before turning professional. She quickly demonstrated her potential by winning the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge on the LPGA Futures Tour.

Her breakthrough came in 2018 when she secured her first LPGA Tour victory at the LPGA Taiwan Championship. 2019 she won the Australian Open, moving her into the top 10 of the world rankings. That same year, she added two more titles to her resume: the French Open on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and a successful defense of her LPGA Taiwan Championship.

In February 2019, Nelly won at the Gainbridge LPGA, finishing three strokes ahead of former world number one Lydia Ko and Lexi Thompson. Then, she secured victory at the Meijer LPGA Classic and followed up with her first major win at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Atlanta, earning the world’s number-one ranking.

Korda continued her journey by capturing the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, winning by one stroke. She finished her remarkable season by defeating Ko, Thompson, and Kim Sei-young in a playoff to win the Pelican Championship.

In 2022, Korda lost her number-one ranking and had to undergo surgery for a blood clot in her arm. After a six-week recovery, she returned to tie for eighth place at the US Women’s Open. She went on to win the LET’s Aramco Team Series event in Sotogrande, Spain, and later reclaimed her Pelican title in November, marking her first LPGA Tour win of the year.

Korda reclaimed the number-one ranking after finishing third at the Chevron Championship. However, a back injury kept away her for a significant part of the year, with her sole victory in the Aramco Team Series London.

In 2024, Nelly made history by winning five consecutive LPGA Tour titles. She achieved her ninth LPGA Tour victory in January at the LPGA Drive On Championship in Bradenton, in a playoff after finishing eagle-birdie to tie.

She then won the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship, regaining the top world ranking, followed by victories at the Ford Championship and the T-Mobile Match Play, making her the first player since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to win four straight events. Then she claimed her second major title at the Chevron Championship as the only player to win five consecutive starts. ⁴

Nelly Korda’s Net Worth

Nelly is a professional golfer and she also comes from a family of players and was named to Forbes’ 2023 list of highest-paid female athletes, ranking 11th alongside United States soccer star Megan Rapinoe. She has a net worth of 9 million US Dollars, earned 2 million from competitions and 7 million from endorsements and other off-field activities.