{"id":100648,"date":"2026-08-27T03:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/thats-fuel-with-successful-major-season-behind-her-nelly-korda-still-eyes-1-goal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:23:24","slug":"thats-fuel-with-successful-major-season-behind-her-nelly-korda-still-eyes-1-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/thats-fuel-with-successful-major-season-behind-her-nelly-korda-still-eyes-1-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That&#039;s fuel&#039;: With successful major season behind her, Nelly Korda still eyes 1 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/golf_articles_613\/014fce79c19d845c108980ba4f20f08e\" data-uuid=\"8e2f04d8-2a0f-3513-89c0-6f274e11f5ad\"><figcaption>Nelly Korda still has a big goal to achieve in 2026<small class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelly Korda\u2019s 2026 season has been an emphatic response to her winless 2025 campaign. She\u2019s relied <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/nelly-korda-won-chevron-championship-beating-herself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on a new mindset and an on-course freedom<\/a> that she has connected to her off-course happiness, maturity and a competitive drive that received unlimited fuel after 2025. It\u2019s been effective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Korda opened her season with a win. Then she won the first major of the year in emphatic fashion and followed that up <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/nelly-korda-us-womens-open-win-journey-dreams\/\">by achieving a lifelong dream<\/a>, winning the U.S. Women\u2019s Open at Riviera. On the heels of that blistering start, the <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/nelly-korda-lpga-future\/\">LPGA created a \u201cscrappy\u201d marketing plan<\/a> to introduce Korda to a larger sports audience and bring in new eyeballs to the sport as she readied for the year\u2019s final three majors and a chance to punch her ticket to the LPGA Hall of Fame. Korda\u2019s season leveled off after that. Her putter went cold at the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA, she <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/scottie-scheffler-nelly-korda-bad-weeks\/\">missed the cut at the Evian<\/a> and was one of many players to let a <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/shiho-kuwaki-womens-open-win-nelly-korda-charley-hull\/\">golden opportunity slip through her fingers <\/a>at the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Korda took a few weeks off after the major season concluded, but much like fellow World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda\u2019s competitive fire is always raging. While the major season is over, Nelly Korda still has at least one more big box to check off this season: win the Solheim Cup on European soil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow it\u2019s real,\u201d Korda said on Wednesday at the FM Championship about looking ahead to the Solheim Cup in two weeks. \u201cNow it\u2019s time to get ready after this week for the Netherlands and to represent our country. There is no greater feeling, especially stepping onto that first tee box.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><iframe data-yahoo-uuid=\"inlinelinkedvideo_1cbd1bcd-cb13-364a-9d44-8f0f8d61e4e4\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/us-solheim-cup-captains-picks-2026\/\">USA captain Angela Stanford announce<\/a>d that Rose Zhang, Lindy Duncan and Megan Khang would be the final three players to fill out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solheimcupusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the American roster<\/a>. Those three will join Korda, Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh, Auston Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz, Andrea Lee and Alison Lee on the team that will head to the Netherlands in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Korda and Khang have the most appearances on the team. But as a four-time major champion and World No. 1, Korda, who is 10-5-1 in four career Solheim Cups, is Team USA\u2019s leader. But that\u2019s a role she\u2019ll approach differently than you might think. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m getting old,\u201d Korda said, laughing, on Wednesday at TPC Boston when asked about being the team\u2019s leader. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI definitely enjoy it. I mean, I feel like we only have two rookies on Tour. We have Lindy, but she\u2019s a vet on Tour. She\u2019s gone through so much. I think already that week we have a lot of experience. Everything, when it comes to the Solheim Cup, is about experience. I feel like being over the pond and not having the fan base that, let\u2019s say, we had when we played over here, we have to lean on each other a little bit more. That\u2019s kind of what I learned through playing in Solheim Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut I feel like everyone on that team is very vocal and comfortable with each other, so we can all lean on each other and kind of all feel like leaders. I feel like it\u2019s better when it\u2019s all equal, so no one feels like the big dog in a sense, and we\u2019re all just there to have fun and play for our country.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Korda\u2019s best asset as Team USA\u2019s leader might be her newfound mentality, a focus on the positive that allowed her to run rampant over the sport for the first several months. At the Chevron Championship in April, Korda and her longtime caddie Jason McDede harped on the importance of letting things \u201croll off her back\u201d and allowing her to \u201cplay Nelly Korda golf\u201d for 72 holes. Bad shots will happen, but you have to accept them and flush them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday at TPC Boston, Korda was asked by a young fan what advice she\u2019d give to young girls just starting out in golf. As is often the case, the simplest questions give the best insight, even into areas they weren\u2019t meant to probe. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cEveryone has bad days. We all hit bad shots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A young fan asked Nelly Korda for some golf advice. Nelly delivered.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FMGlobal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FMGlobal<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GOLF_com?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@golf_com<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zeldxfg85J\">pic.twitter.com\/zeldxfg85J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GOLF_com\/status\/2092703918455431621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s it\u2019s actually not easy,\u201d Korda joked with a smile. \u201cNever get discouraged because everyone has bad days. We all hit bad shots. I chunked a shot on 17. I hit bad shots, too. So no matter how good you feel that you are, like you\u2019re still going to hit bad shots. You\u2019re still going to have bad days. But never get discouraged, and if you have the love for it, just keep going.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing on foreign soil against a European team led by Charley Hull, Lottie Woad and Esther Henseleit, the Americans will need Korda to lead with her play and her attitude if they plan to leave Bernardus Golf with the Solheim Cup. There will be moments when the momentum shifts and the Europeans are riding a wave of momentum that threatens to wash the Americans away. It will be on Korda to serve as a stabilizing force whom everyone can follow as the Americans try to win their first Solheim Cup on European soil since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a year that has seen Nelly Korda already achieve her greatest dream, don\u2019t think that isn\u2019t also on her radar. There\u2019s no coast in Nelly Korda. She\u2019s always hunting something. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[I] don\u2019t really have too much time off after this,\u201d Korda said of her schedule post-majors. \u201cWe head to the Netherlands. That\u2019s also fuel in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/nelly-korda-dreams-one-goal\/\">\u2018That\u2019s fuel\u2019: With successful major season behind her, Nelly Korda still eyes 1 goal<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\">Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/thats-fuel-successful-major-season-022737602.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly Korda still has a big goal to achieve in 2026Getty Images Nelly Korda\u2019s 2026 season has been an emphatic response to her winless 2025 campaign. 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