Two players, same year, two majors apiece. It is a stat that sounds almost too clean to be true. But that is exactly where the 2026 LPGA season sits with one major left to play.

After winning the 2026 Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Club, Haeran Ryu matched Nelly Korda's two major wins in a single season. Before Evian, Ryu had already won the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

With the win, the two became the only players in the history of golf — men and women combined — to win multiple majors in a single season, the LPGA posted on X(formerly Twitter).

After remaining winless throughout 2025, Nelly Korda started the season with a win at the weather-shortened Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in January.

After that, she won the Chevron Championship in April at Memorial Park by five shots, and followed that with a one-shot victory at the U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera. It was her fourth career major and made her the youngest American to reach that number since Mickey Wright in 1960.

Meanwhile, Ryu skipped the U.S. Women's Open entirely while recovering from a minor back procedure, and finished tied for 12th at the Chevron Championship.

She opened with a one-over 73 that left her 10 shots off the lead at Hazeltine, and from there she went on to win the KPMG Women's PGA Championship as the largest comeback in the championship's history, and any major since Carol Mann did it at the 1964 Women's Western Open.

Two weeks later at Evian, Ryu made another historic record before winning the title. Her third-round 60 was the lowest score ever recorded in a major championship, men's or women's.

Mickey Wright and Annika Sorenstam both won multiple majors in a single season, in 1961 and 2003, respectively. But there is no precedent — men or women — for two separate players each winning two majors in the same calendar year before Korda and Ryu.

Ryu's Win Makes the Rolex ANNIKA Major Award Race a Lot More Interesting

Before the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, this race wasn't really a race. Korda had already won the Chevron Championship and the U.S. Women's Open and was sitting on two majors before Ryu had won any.

Ryu's KPMG breakthrough and her back-to-back follow-up at Evian changed that in the space of thirteen days.

As things stand now, Korda leads the standings with 126 points to Ryu's 120, per LPGA.com. Both have two major wins this season, but Korda's tied-for-eighth finish at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship gave her six additional points that Ryu didn't have the chance to collect.

She didn't play the U.S. Women's Open and finished tied for 12th at the Chevron.

Brooke Henderson sits a distant third with 42 points off two runner-up finishes in majors, followed by Ina Yoon (38) and Ruoning Yin (30).

Both players have won the award before, in different forms. Korda's 2024 season was the last time this race wasn't competitive at all. She won the Rolex ANNIKA Major Award and Rolex Player of the Year in a year she won seven times on tour.

Ryu won the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award in 2023 after winning the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

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Md Saife Fida