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The 2024 season was everything Nelly Korda ever dreamed of. The 27-year-old was a trending golfer on the LPGA Tour through and through. She made records and literally, every aspect. Korda won seven LPGA Tour events including the Chevron Championship, yes she couldn’t win a medal at the Summer Olympics, but she was named the 2024 Rolex Player of the Year and earned more millions than any other pro on the LPGA Tour.

Korda also became the only LPGA Tour golfer to be invited to the Met Gala and how can her Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot be forgotten? Overall, it has been a fulfilling season for Korda as she possibly did everything that anyone could imagined. Even when she missed cuts, she made a record for her career, as it was the first time she missed the weekend three times in a row.

It was disappointing but Korda picked herself from there, won the Annika Driven by Gainbridge, and then teed up at the CME Group Tour Championship. Korda may or may not win the season finale as she finished T8 after the third round. But her plans for after are already set.

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And fret not, even though the LPGA Tour will end, it will not be the last time the 15-time LPGA Tour winner will be playing in 2024. After this, she will be at the first PGA Tour and LPGA Tour co-sanctioned mixed team event, the Grand Thornton Invitational at the same course as the CME Group Tour Championship, the Tiburon Golf Club in Naples. It will be held between December 12th to 15th.

Korda will pair up with 6-time PGA Tour winner, Tony Finau. Last year, the FiNelly Team finished T4 and would be hoping to win the 2024 edition before the season ends. But this is not the last event for Korda either.

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Where will be Nelly Korda after the Grant Thornton Invitational?

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After one mixed team event, Nelly Korda will be part of another such team format gameplay, but this time not with a professional golfer. Since the 2021 season, it has been the 15-time LPGA Tour schedule to travel 200 miles from Naples to Orlando and tee up at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Florida.

It is more of a family event for Korda as she plays with her athletic father, Petr Korda, at the PNC Championship starting on December 19th and ending on 22nd. The children-parents event is a 36-hole scramble tournament where Korda and her father finished 12th in 2021 and 5th in 2022, whereas Team Korda was T13 in the 2023 edition.

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The LPGA Tour star has never won any of these two unofficial events but since she is on a great run to win almost every event she plays, it would not be wrong to assume that she may emerge victory even at the Grant Thornton Invitational and PNC Championship and ends the season with yet another victory added to her portfolio.

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