Nelly Korda has been peerless in 2026.
The number one player in the women’s game has won both of the major championships in 2026. Korda won the Chevron Championship running away, and she won her first Women’s US Open title at Riviera Country Club to make it two for two.
Korda is now a four-time major winner with four wins and three runner-up finishes so far this season. She’s been nearly unbeatable in the women’s game, and has a real chance of completing the career grand slam by the end of this year.
Watching her compete at the US Women’s Open, Brandel Chamblee said that Korda did something better than any woman or man he’s ever seen play at Riviera.
Brandel Chamblee said Nelly Korda has the best scrambling performance at any US Open
Amazingly, Korda wasn’t firing on all cylinders on her way to her first US Open win. She won by one stroke, and her iron play was off all tournament.
But Korda won with an incredible showing in the short game. She was so good from off the green that Chamblee said it was the best scrambling performance of any man or woman at a US Open.
Speaking on the Golf Channel broadcast after the win, he said, “She missed 30 greens, she almost finished dead last in the US Women’s Open. You do not win the US Women’s Open missing 30 greens.
“And the reason she did is because what she did this week will absolutely go down in history as the greatest scrambling week that I have ever seen in a US Open, men’s or women’s.
“You think about what Retief Goosen did in 2004 on his way to winning the US Open at Shinnecock, where we will be in a couple of weeks. When you think about what Brooks Koepka did there in 2018.
“I don’t think about that. You want to know what I think about? What I think about is Seve Ballesteros, arguably the greatest pitcher and chipper of the golf ball. You go all the way back to 1976, you remember when we were at Birkdale in 1976?
“Everybody remembers that, it was Jonny Miller’s tournament, he won it, but it was a coming-out party for Seve Ballesteros.”
There is no greater praise than to be mentioned in the same breath as the great Ballesteros for your short game prowess. At Riviera, Korda proved that she doesn’t always need to rely on her power or long-range accuracy to win at the highest level.
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