Nellie Korda has seven fewer titles, but nearly as good a season in 2025 as 2024 | D’Angelo.

NAPLES — The bar has been set high for Nelly Korda.

Defending LPGA Player of the Year. Fifteen LPGA Tour wins. Two-time major winner. More than 100 weeks as the No. 1 ranked woman in the world. Top 10 in the career money list. A global brand.

And just four months removed from her 27th birthday.

Which is why Korda, the Bradenton resident, struggles to analyze a 2025 season in which more than 90 percent of the women on the LPGA Tour would celebrate.

Korda was coming off a 2024 season in which she won seven events. That included a stretch of five in a row that her sister Jessica, a Jupiter resident and six-time winner on the LPGA Tour, called “insanity” and “not normal.”

One year later, Korda opened the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship at Tiberon on Nov. 20 seeking her first win of the 2025 season.

Yet every part of her game, aside from the trophies hoisted, has challenged, if not surpassed, her historical 2024 season.

Which has Korda wondering if she should feel fulfilled or frustrated with her 2025 season.

“It’s definitely been an interesting year,” said Korda, who fell to No. 2 in the world behind Jeeno Thitikul in August. “There has been good. There has been flashes of really good. There has been flashes of I don’t know what just happened.

“But, yeah, it definitely sucks in a way that I didn’t get to raise a trophy.”

The stats are somewhat confounding considering the most glaring: tournaments won.

Entering the Tour Championship, Korda is top 5 in scoring average per round (2), strokes gained off the tee (1), strokes gained total (2) and strokes gained tee to green (4).

In those same categories in 2024, a year in which she won seven more times than in 2025, Korda was 2nd, 2nd, 1st and 3rd in those categories, respectively.

Additionally, she had a better year in strokes gained approach, putting and driving distance. While slipping in strokes gained around green, driving accuracy and greens in regulation.

“I’m not disappointed with the season,” she said. “Obviously, I would’ve loved to raise a couple of trophies. When it comes down to my stats and the way my body has felt, it’s been amazing. Since 2021, I think I’ve been out for a couple months every single year with injuries.

“At the end of the day, you can spin it in a very positive way of like, ‘okay, I need to sit down and I need to improve myself to keep up with all the good play out here.’ It’s honestly a fine line.”