Nelly Korda heads into the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National in Chaska, Minnesota, with the chance to become the first woman since Inbee Park in 2013 and Babe Zaharias in 1950 to win three consecutive majors in a season.
For the third straight major, Nelly Korda arrives with the weight of history hanging over her swing.
At Hazeltine National in Chaska. Minnesota. Korda has a shot at her third consecutive major championship in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The course is set at Hazeltine National GC for 6. 807 yards with a par of 72. with the tournament’s prize money rising to $13 million—the largest purse in the history of women’s golf—and the winner’s share listed at $1. 950. 000.
The defending champion is Minjee Lee, returning to the same tournament stage that has already shaped her season. She last won the Women’s PGA after closing with a 2-over 73 in windy conditions at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco. securing a three-shot victory for her third major title. Last year’s win also carried a different kind of marker: Lee captured her title at the PGA of America’s new headquarters in Frisco. Texas. an event that will host the men’s PGA Championship there in 2027.
Korda’s pursuit isn’t just about another trophy. She comes in atop the race to the CME Globe leader. She has also played in the final group in all but one of her individual tournaments this year. a consistency that has left the major stretch feeling less like a sudden peak and more like an ongoing run.
She’ll be chasing a rare feat. The only two women to have won three straight majors in a season were Inbee Park in 2013 and Babe Zaharias in 1950, when the LPGA had only three majors. Hannah Green, meanwhile, is the last winner when the Women’s PGA was at Hazeltine in 2019.
The tournament’s timing also places the moment in a broader stretch of momentum for the LPGA. After this Women’s PGA. the LPGA will have two weeks off before going to the next major in France. which became a major 13 years ago. Next tournament on the schedule is the Amundi Evian Championship on July 9-12.
Hazeltine’s significance reaches beyond this week. In 2029, it will become the first American course to host the Ryder Cup two times.
Coverage is slated across multiple windows: Thursday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Golf Channel; Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon on Peacock, noon to 3 p.m. on NBC, and 3-5 p.m. on Golf Channel; and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Peacock and 1-4 p.m. on NBC.
The field includes eight teaching or club professionals, and Lee is again the name to watch defensively as she looks to contend at Hazeltine alongside Korda’s bid to make the kind of run that doesn’t come often in women’s majors.
When you put the details together. the week’s storyline tightens: a $13 million prize designed to elevate the stakes. a defending champion who earned her last title in the conditions of Fields Ranch East with a 2-over 73. and a current leader in the CME Globe race with the rare chance to join only two other women in history for three consecutive major wins in a season.
Nelly Korda Hazeltine National KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Minjee Lee CME Globe women’s golf majors
Hazeltine always sounds hard like those greens will humble you.
13 million purse?? That’s wild. I saw somewhere it said 1.95 million for the winner so that checks out I guess. I don’t even follow golf like that but 3 in a row sounds like she’s basically unbeatable.
Wait so Minjee Lee is defending champion but she won at PGA Frisco like last week?? Or is this the same place as Texas? The article keeps saying Hazeltine and then Frisco and I got lost. Also “three consecutive majors” like that’s not the same as majors in a row year to year right?
Honestly this feels rigged by history talk. Like they’re already acting like Korda is gonna do it because she’s top of the CME Globe thing. Windy conditions, new headquarters, 2027 men’s PGA… it’s like they just stack storylines. I just want to know if Hazeltine yardage 6,807 is easy or not because 6,8xx is still long to me.