Nelly Korda won another major, tied an LPGA record by winning five straight starts and already has clinched her first award as LPGA player of the year.
What's left at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship? A chance to break Lorena Ochoa's record for most earnings in a season set in 2007.
Korda, coming off her seventh win, has earned $4,164,430, leaving her $200,565 away from breaking Ochoa's record. That would require finishing fifth or better at Tiburon Golf Club.
Then again, everyone in the 60-player field can break Ochoa's mark. CME has provided an $11 million purse, with $4 million going to the winner.
Lydia Ko nearly broke the mark two years ago, coming up short by $591.
Ochoa won the season finale in 2007 for her eighth win of the year, including a major. First place at the Tour Championship was a mere $1 million. Total prize money for the year was just over $54 million, about half of what it is now.
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