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Nelly Korda on the Met Gala and prepping for a run at LPGA history at Cognizant Founders Cup 2024

Back in her Nike apparel, hair bun and visor, she hopes her work inside the ropes is enough to move the tour forward.

Jaden Smith, the 25-year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, was the first person to say hello to Nelly Korda at the Met Gala on Monday evening. As she stood in line waiting to walk the green carpet – the dress code was “The Garden of Time” – Korda was mostly silent as she took in the scene. Wearing an Oscar de la Renta dress and her first spray tan, Korda was especially starstruck by Grammy-winning artist Shakira, who was also making her Met Gala debut.

“It was just a dream come true,” said Korda.

Life lately for the most dominant player in golf has been nothing but dreamy. Korda enters this week Cognizant Founders Cup in Clifton, New Jersey, with a chance to become the first player in LPGA history to win six consecutive starts.

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After capturing her fifth straight title at the Chevron Championship, she pulled out of the L.A. stop at Wilshire Country Club so that she could take two weeks to rest.

“First night, Sunday, I really didn’t sleep much at all,” said Korda. “The adrenaline, you actually feel really sick. You can’t sleep. The adrenaline wears off and the body starts to ache a little bit.”

After that, she was sleeping nine to 10 hours a night, which is standard when she’s at home in Florida. The mental break was just as important for a player who is leading just about every area of the tour statistically.

During the second week off, Korda hosted her first all-girls AJGA event, “The Nelly,” at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton. She brought out one of the rescue dogs from Satchels Last Resort for the Junior Am. Marvel was up for adoption, and she hopes he found a home.

“You’re your most genuine self when you see a puppy,” said Korda. “That really gave me a lot of positive energy.”

Although Korda, 25, is a 13-time winner on the LPGA and Oylmpic gold medalist, she doesn’t feel that far removed from the AJGA. When she saw one junior warming up with a TrackMan on the range, however, she realized how much things had changed.

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Korda flew up to New Jersey on Saturday and played Upper Montclair Country Club on Sunday and then on Monday again before the gala. She doesn’t have the best record in New Jersey, having missed the cut at this event last year as well as the KPMG Women’s PGA at Baltusrol.

“This golf course is tough,” said Korda. “It’s very, very narrow off the tee. The rough is very penalizing. And it’s wet this year, so it’s even worse.”

One player who is exceedingly comfortable this week is former No. 1 Jin Young Ko, who won last year’s Founders Cup in a playoff over 2022 champ Minjee Lee. Ko is a three-time winner of the Founders, though her other two victories were at different venues.

Ko suffered a shoulder injury earlier this year that took her away from the tour for a month and a half and recently tied for fourth at the JM Eagle LA Championship.

“I think my game is going well,” said Ko, who is back to playing (and sleeping) pain-free. “Like, I think I found good direction to (be) going.”

Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) are the only other players in LPGA history to win five consecutive starts.

Sorenstam said all she could see during a streak like that were fairways, greens and one-putts.

“If I hit a bad shot, it didn’t affect me,” she said. “It just kind of repelled.”

In her mind, Sorenstam knew plenty more good shots were coming.

Korda, the first American player to win five times in an LPGA season since Juli Inkster in 1999, said she hasn’t thought much at all about what it would mean to win six in a row. She’s kept too busy.

Earlier this week U.S. captain Stacy Lewis organized a Solheim Cup dinner and World Golf Hall of Fame members Pat Bradley, Beth Daniel and Meg Mallon were in attendance. Daniel and Bradley are being honored this week as LPGA pioneers.

“They are just so positive and so fun to talk to,” said Korda. “I just hope that when I’m in their position, girls my age will think that about me, too.”

Pat Bradley was a fixture in the winner’s circle on the LPGA Tour in the 1980s. She won 31 Tour events, including six major titles.

Bradley and Daniel are no strangers to monster seasons. Daniel won seven times in 1990, including a major, while Bradley won three of her six majors in 1986.

Bradley actually won the 1983 LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Classic at Upper Montclair, which sits just 12 miles west of Manhatten.

“I mean, last night I said to Beth and Meg, how did I find this place? We didn’t have GPS; we didn’t have a phone,” said Bradley. “I must have stopped at 12 gas stations and said, ‘Joe, where is Upper Montclair Country Club?’ Because it was tucked back here so nicely.”

Perhaps one day Korda will be back at Upper Montclair, regaling players with stories about the time she “felt like a princess” at the Met Gala a few short days before she made LPGA history.

The stage is hers. Back in her Nike apparel, hair bun and visor, she hopes her work inside the ropes is enough to move the tour forward.

“At the end of the day, I think if you perform well in your sport, that’s what grabs people’s attention,” said Korda. “I’m not the type of person that tries to push anything or does anything I’m not really comfortable with … I hope that I just do it naturally.”

Ben Simmons and his Flavor Flav clock bag at the 2024 Met Gala became an instant meme

The clock bag turned Ben Simmons into a supervillain in memes.

Hey, I think Ben Simmons’ fit for the 2024 Met Gala was kind of cool! It had a Sherlock Holmes and Flava Flav feel to it!

Why Flav? You’ve got to look at his bag that was a clock. But of course it didn’t matter that he was one of the sharply dressed athletes at the annual event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, because he got razzed and turned into a meme on X (formerly Twitter), which isn’t a huge surprise.

Here’s a roundup of the jokes made about him after he walked the red carpet on Monday:

Camilla Cabello held an actual block of ice as a purse at the 2024 Met Gala

Yes, a literal ice block was her purse.

No, your eyes do not deceive you. That is a literal block of ice she held as a purse.

Camilla Cabello, known for songs like Havana and Señorita, was one of the many stars who showed up looking fabulous at the 2024 Met Gala. And like many of said stars, Cabello added a detail to her outfit that was right on theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” — there were some references to time.

So how does an ice block fit in? Let Cabello explain, per Extra in the video below: “I feel like it is impermanence and things decaying over time and the beauty in that, so there are sort of rips toward the ends of my dress.”

OK!

Glamorous Nelly Korda lights up the red carpet at the Met Gala in New York City

Korda received a rare invitation for an LPGA player.

Nelly Korda, the hottest player in golf, hit the red carpet Monday evening wearing an Oscar de la Renta gown for the annual Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a rare invitation for an LPGA player. But then, Korda’s play of late has been historically spectacular.

This week’s LPGA event, the Cognizant Founders Cup takes place just outside New York at Upper Montclair Country Club in Cliffton, New Jersey, where Korda looks to become the first player in LPGA history to win six consecutive starts.

The exclusive Met Gala – attended by celebrities such as Matt Damon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, Tom Ford and Ariana Grande – is a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and, according to vogue.com, the event raises eight-figure sums annually.

The theme for this year’s gala is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” and the dress code is “The Garden of Time.” Live coverage of the event is being streamed on Vogue.com as well as the publication’s social channels. The event is co-chaired by Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya.

Tennis icon Serena Williams announced her pregnancy last year at the Met Gala. Other athletes in attendance last year included Roger Federer, Dwayne Wade, Russell Westbrook, Patrick Mahomes, Olympic champion skier Eileen Gu, and WNBA player Brittany Griner, who’d been released from a Russian prison just a few months prior.

The LPGA’s Korda, 25, has teed it up in six events so far in 2024 and won all but the first start at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) are the only players who have previously won five consecutive starts. Should Korda win this week’s event, she would join Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win six.

After Korda won her second major title at the Chevron Championship last month, she pulled out of the next week’s event in Los Angeles, citing fatigue. She had two weeks off to prepare for the Founders Cup. Before heading to New York, Korda hosted an all-girls AJGA event near her home in Sarasota, Florida.

As Korda’s streak grew this spring, she was asked on several occasions how she could help the tour capitalize at a time when the popularity of women’s sports has never been higher.

“I feel like for me,” Korda said, “the way that I promote the game is just the way I am. I’m very true to myself. I’m never going to do something I’m not really comfortable with.”

There’s no doubt the red carpet suits her.

Check out some photos of the pro athletes in attendance at the 2024 Met Gala:

Will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce attend the 2024 Met Gala together?

It seems like fans will have to wait a little longer for the first Swift-Kelce red carpet.

With the 2024 Met Gala taking place on Monday, May 6, it’s time for celebrities to once again descend upon New York City for the fashion event of the year. This year, the charity gala that benefits The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has a theme of “The Garden of Time,” with Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth serving as co-chairs.

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Previously, stars like Blake Lively, Beyoncé and Pedro Pascal have taken to the glamorous red carpet, so now there’s one big question for 2024: Will Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce be in attendance?

Since the 14-time Grammy winner is resuming her massive Eras Tour with four shows in Paris starting May 9, it was going to be a stretch to fit everything in. It looks like that tour prep will keep the The Tortured Poets Department singer from attending, according to reports from People.

Looks like we will have to wait a little longer for the first Swift and Kelce red carpet appearance.

PHOTOS: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at the 2023 Met Gala

The best photos from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s outfit for The Met Gala.

Monday marked The Met Gala, the annual fundraising event that helps the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. It is regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious fishing gatherings as celebrities across the globe attend the event with their most fashionable outfit.

So what does that have to do with the Oklahoma City Thunder? Well, All-Star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was in attendance. Through his five-year career in the league, Gilgeous-Alexander has made it known how serious he is about his fashion.

With Russell Westbrook gone, Gilgeous-Alexander has picked up the torch of extremely fashionable franchise Thunder guards. Let’s look at what the 24-year-old wore at the event on Monday.

Why Jared Leto and Doja Cat both dressed as cats at the 2023 Met Gala

Jared Leto and Doja Cat honored the fashion world’s most iconic cat with their Met Gala looks.

The Met Gala is often the place for wild fashion choices, but Jared Leto and Doja Cat went above and beyond to pay homage to the most chic cat of all: Choupette.

The theme for the 2023 Met Gala is based off of the late Karl Lagerfeld, the famous — yet problematic — fashion figure. One of Langerfeld’s biggest muses was his cat, Choupette, who lived the most luxurious life a feline could ask for. Choupette, an 11-year-old tortie Birman, is one of the most famous cats in the world and has been pampered like royalty befitting a cat of her stature. She is even a successful model and was featured in many of Lagerfeld’s collections.

Hilariously, Choupette declined an invitation to this year’s Met Gala to be “cozy at home” — a mood, if I’m being honest — but it seems Leto and Doja Cat kept her spirit alive at Monday’s Met Gala.

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Yes, both Doja Cat and Leto dressed up as Choupette for the Met Gala. Doja Cat went the prosthetics route, with makeup and cat ears on her dress to complete the look. Leto, meanwhile, dressed up in a full fursuit modeled after Choupette.

Goodness knows how much both of those looks cost, but it certainly seems like a pretty penny. Fans on Twitter immediately could not stop comparing Doja Cat and Leto’s homages to Choupette at the 2023 Met Gala.

Serena Williams reveals she’s pregnant with her second child at 2023 Met Gala

“Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala.”

Fashion stars, entertainers and athletes were among those who attended the 2023 Met Gala on Monday evening at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Serena Williams not only showed up looking fantastic, as usual, but the recently retired tennis superstar also revealed she’s pregnant, expecting her and husband Alexis Ohanian’s second child. In addition to showing off her baby bump as she made her entrance, Williams — who gave birth to their first child, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., in September 2017 — also announced the exciting news on Instagram.

In her post, she posed for several photos in her Met Gala look, and wrote in the caption: “Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala.”

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Here’s a look at Williams and Ohanian’s arrival at the 2023 Met Gala:

Brittney Griner, Stefon Diggs and other stunning athletes on the 2023 Met Gala red carpet

The Met Gala red carpet isn’t just for movie and music stars.

The Met Gala red carpet isn’t just for glamorous actors, fashion icons and music stars. Top-level athletes have frequented the event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for years, and 2023 was no different.

Former NBA superstar Dwyane Wade strode the carpet with his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, and tennis icon Roger Federer served as one of the event’s co-chairs this year. Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle looked fantastic, and freestyle skier Eileen Gu recreated one of Karl Lagerfeld’s iconic looks to nail the theme.

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Stefon Diggs was fabulous in an impeccably tailored suit, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes donned a black look with white mock turtleneck.

Gisele Bündchen’s attendance at the Met Gala inspired so many Tom Brady jokes

The supermodel hit the glamorous red carpet solo.

Once married to supermodel Gisele Bündchen, NFL legend Tom Brady was no stranger to the Met Gala red carpet. The duo frequented the glamorous event over the course of their 13-year marriage.

Brady and Bündchen called it quits in October of 2022, with the quarterback saying they made that decision “amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together” according to an interview in March of this year.

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Bündchen hit the red carpet for Monday night’s event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, looking absolutely fabulous and leading to a lot of jokes.