Nelly Korda’s historic 2024 season earned her a boatload of cash.
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The LPGA Tour’s largest star, World No. 1 Nelly Korda, had her largest 12 months but in 2024, placing collectively an historic run of wins that included her second main title on the Chevron Championship.
In all, Korda captured seven LPGA wins within the 2024 season, almost doubling her profession whole to fifteen, together with 11 top-10 finishes in all. Now we all know that each one of that success has earned her one other top-10 end… as one of many prime 10 highest-paid feminine athletes of 2024.
Sportico.com just lately launched a rating of the world’s highest earners in girls’s sports activities, and Korda was featured within the No. 8 place, with an estimated earnings whole of $14.4 million.
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That sum consists of the $4.4 million she earned on the course for her flood of victories, with the remaining earned via endorsements.
Whereas Korda’s sum is spectacular, particularly given the small dimension of LPGA purses as in comparison with PGA Tour purses, it pales compared to the top-earner on the record, Coco Gauff.
Gauff, the 20-year-old American tennis star, paired $9.4 million on-court earnings with $21 million in endorsements for a complete exceeding $30 million, in accordance with Sportico’s estimations.
Apparently, Sportico additionally information that WNBA celebrity and avid golfer Caitlin Clark made $11 million in endorsement cash in 2024, solely $1 million greater than Korda.
And Korda isn’t the one professional golfer who makes an look on the record. LPGA professional Jeeno Thitikul is available in twelfth place, thanks largely to her $4 million paycheck for profitable the CME Group Tour Championship. Veteran LPGA star and 2024 Olympic gold medalist Lydia Ko is available in fifteenth on the record, with $3.2 million earned on the course and $3.5 million earned off of it.
For perspective, males’s World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler matched Korda’s whole of seven victories in 2024. His whole on-course earnings? Greater than $62 million.
