Tag: 2024 T-Mobile Match Play

2024 T-Mobile Match Play prize money payouts for each LPGA player

Korda’s 12th win pushed her career winnings on the LPGA to more than $10 million.

Nelly Korda has won again on the LPGA.

A fourth straight win, as a matter of fact, the first to do it since Lorena Ochoa in 2008.

And she’s added another $300,000 to her bank account. Her 12th win pushed her career winnings on the LPGA to more than $10 million. Korda is the 25th golfer to hit that mark, doing so in her 132nd start. She tied the mark set by Lorena Ochoa in 2008 for fastest to surpass $1 million in a season.

For her latest win, she had to navigate the five-day, multi-format tournament. The Match Play had 54 holes of stroke play over three days before switching to three days of match play.

Check out the prize money payouts at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.

Position Golfer Earnings
1 Nelly Korda $300,000
2 Leona Maguire $187,584
T3 Sei Young Kim $120,673
T3 Narin An $120,673
T5 Moriya Jutanugarn $65,729
T5 Rose Zhang $65,729
T5 Minami Katsu $65,729
T5 Angel Yin $65,729
T9 Hae Ran Ryu $41,936
T9 Brooke Henderson $41,936
T9 Yuka Saso $41,936
T12 Mone Inami $33,754
T12 Ally Ewing $33,754
T12 Nanna Koerstz Madsen $33,754
T15 Jennifer Kupcho $28,209
T15 Anna Nordqvist $28,209
T15 Minjee Lee $28,209
T18 Marina Alex $22,829
T18 Stephanie Kyriacou $22,829
T18 Caroline Masson $22,829
T18 Hye-Jin Choi $22,829
T18 Ayaka Furue $22,829
T18 Lydia Ko $22,829
T18 Jodi Ewart Shadoff $22,829
T25 Linn Grant $18,897
T25 Andrea Lee $18,897
T25 Stephanie Meadow $18,897
T28 Gabriela Ruffels $16,774
T28 Stacy Lewis $16,774
T28 In Gee Chun $16,774
31 Albane Valenzuela $15,508
T32 Madelene Sagstrom $12,927
T32 Lauren Coughlin $12,927
T32 Ariya Jutanugarn $12,927
T32 Paula Reto $12,927
T32 Emily Kristine Pedersen $12,927
T32 Lindsey Weaver-Wright $12,927
T32 Megan Khang $12,927
T32 Carlota Ciganda $12,927
T40 Elizabeth Szokol $9,492
T40 Yu Liu $9,492
T40 Yan Liu $9,492
T40 Jiwon Jeon $9,492
T40 Allisen Corpuz $9,492
T40 Kristen Gillman $9,492
T40 Maja Stark $9,492
T47 Isabella Fierro $7,394
T47 Hyo Joo Kim $7,394
T47 Jenny Shin $7,394
T47 Eun-Hee Ji $7,394
T47 Celine Boutier $7,394
T47 Mi Hyang Lee $7,394
T53 Ryann O’Toole $6,367
T53 Alison Lee $6,367
T53 Angela Stanford $6,367
T56 Ashleigh Buhai $5,460
T56 Cheyenne Knight $5,460
T56 Roberta Liti $5,460
T56 Bianca Pagdanganan $5,460
T56 Jeongeun Lee6 $5,460
T56 Auston Kim $5,460
T62 Aditi Ashok $4,776
T62 Pajaree Anannarukarn $4,776
T62 Esther Henseleit $4,776
T62 Danielle Kang $4,776
66 Gemma Dryburgh $4,519
67 Chanettee Wannasaen $4,417

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Four in a row: Nelly Korda tops Leona Maguire in 2024 T-Mobile Match Play final

Korda has won for a third week in a row and for a fourth straight start in 2024.

Nelly Korda has won for a third week in a row but more importantly for a fourth straight start on the LPGA. A record-tying fifth would have to come in a major championship, but that’s a concern for a later date.

For now, Korda is shipping home yet another trophy after her 12th career LPGA win, defeating Leona Maguire, 4 and 3, in the final of the 2024 T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek Golf Course.

It’s Korda’s second straight 4-and-3 victory after opening the match-play bracket, 3 and 2.

The five-day event in Las Vegas came on the heels of wins near Phoenix and before that, Los Angeles. Her first win in 2024 was back in January. She’s the first to win four in a row since Lorena Ochoa in 2008.

“It’s just been a whirlwind,” she said of her 2024 season so far. “It’s been an amazing time, and to do it here as well in match play has been so much fun.”

Only Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam over the 2004 and 2005 seasons have won five LPGA tournaments in a row.

The match-play event started last Wednesday and the new format this year called for 54 holes of stroke play before three rounds of match play.

Korda won $300,000 for the victory and became the 25th LPGA golfer to surpass $10 million in career earnings. She also joins Ariya Juntanugan, Sei Young Kim and Hollis Stacy with 12 career victories.

“Playing the first two events, going down the stretch, there is a different type of adrenaline,” Korda said of her first two wins this year coming in a playoff. “But I feel like with match play you have that from the first hole so it was a great day playing against Leona. Always such a great competitor. Happy to get my fourth.”

The LPGA is off next week and then it’s the first women’s major of 2024 at the Chevron Championship, starting on Thursday, April 18, in The Woodlands, Texas, on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at The Club at Carlton Woods.

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Nelly Korda, aiming for a fourth straight LPGA win, faces Leona Maguire in final at T-Mobile Match Play

Korda is one match-play victory away from a fourth straight win on the LPGA.

Can Nelly Korda make it four in a row?

On Sunday, she won’t need to fend off an entire field to claim another LPGA title. This time, she’ll need to outduel Leona Maguire in the championship at the T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.

Maguire has been the best golfer this week. After 54 holes of stroke play, she was at 6 under, three better than the field. When the format flipped to match play Saturday, Maguire beat Sei Young Kim 3 and 2 in the semifinals after knocking out Moriya Jutanugarn 4 and 3 earlier in the day.

Korda, meamwhile, was 1 under after the first three days but then topped Angel Yin 3 and 2 in the quarterfinals and Narin An 4 and 3 in the semis.

2024 T-Mobile Match Play
Leona Maguire plays a shot on the seventh hole in her semifinal match against Sei Young Kim at the 2024 T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas. (Photo: Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)

The match play event stretched over five days and had a new format in 2024, with the first two days consisting of 36 holes of stroke play with a cut to the top 65 and ties. After the third round Friday, there was a second cut to the top eight players, who were then seeded in a match-play bracket with No. 1 taking on No. 8, No. 2 taking on No. 7 and so on.

If Korda can win Sunday, she’ll make it four wins in four straight starts, including three in the last three weeks after winning the Ford Championship in Arizona and the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship near Los Angeles. She also won in January at the LPGA Drive On Championship.

The longest winning streak on the LPGA is five, with Nancy Lopez first doing it in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam over the 2004 and 2005 seasons.

The LPGA is off next week and then it’s the first women’s major of 2024 at the Chevron Championship.

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Nelly Korda’s win streak is alive as she advances to T-Mobile Match Play final eight

A new format isn’t knocking Korda off track from a potential fourth win in her last four starts.

A new and different format isn’t knocking Nelly Korda off track from a potential fourth win in her last four starts in 2024.

More on that in a minute.

The LPGA’s T-Mobile Match Play, contested on the famed Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, is a five-day tournament that switched it up in 2024, going to a new format in which the first two days consisted of 36 holes of stroke play with a cut to the top 65 and ties.

The cut Thursday night came in at 9 over, the highest LPGA cut in four years. Friday then saw a second cut to just the top eight players, who were then seeded in a match-play bracket with No. 1 taking on No. 8, No. 2 taking on No. 7 and so on.

Saturday will see a single-elimination bracket, with the quarterfinals in the morning and semifinals in the afternoon. Sunday’s final will then decide who takes home the $300,000 first-place prize.

Friday crunch time

Only six golfers finished under par and there was a mad dash for the last spot. As it turned out, four golfers – Moriya Jutanugarn (who had the round of the day with a 5-under 67), Hae Ran Ryu, Yuka Saso and Brooke Henderson (who overcame a double bogey on No. 15 with a birdie on No. 18) – finished tied for eighth at 2 over. That forced a 4-for-1 playoff, with Jutanugarn coming out on top.

Four in a row?

Back to Korda.

Just five days ago in the Phoenix suburbs, Korda was hoisting the trophy at the inaugural Ford Championship, a win that came one week after her victory at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship near Los Angeles. Those two wins in back-to-back weeks followed a win in her previous start in January at the LPGA Drive On Championship.

Korda, ranked No. 1 in the world, is now three match-play wins from yet another LPGA title, which would be her 12th, which would tie her with Hollis Stacy, Sei Young Kim and Ariya Jutanugarn for 28th on the all-time list.

After back-to-back 73s, Korda posted a 3-under 69 on Friday to finish 1 under overall and secure a spot in the final eight.

A win Sunday would be the second-longest winning streak on the LPGA. Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam over the 2004 and 2005 seasons won five straight tournaments.

Saturday’s quarterfinal matches

Leona Maguire earned the top spot for the match play bracket after she shot a second straight 69 to finish at 6 under.

The quarterfinal matchups look like this:

No. 1 Leona Maguire vs. No. 8 Moriya Jutanugarn

No. 2 Minami Katsu vs. No. 7 Narin An

No. 3 Angel Yin vs. No. 6 Nelly Korda

No. 4  Rose Zhang vs. No. 5 Sei Young Kim.

The semifinal matches will be Saturday afternoon.

Carlota Ciganda, meanwhile, had her worst score in 900 career LPGA rounds with an 85, 18 shots worse than her second-round 67.

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