Nelly Korda vs Lexi Thompson: Profession Earnings Comparability of American Favourite LPGA Stars 

The six-win season has given Nelly Korda’s financial institution stability a large increase. Though, following her groundbreaking streak, her poor efficiency has tarnished her status, her seasonal earnings are nonetheless atop the charts. Alternatively, Lexi Thompson’s skilled profession is coming to an finish together with her retirement on the finish of the 2024 season. However how are these gamers’ profession earnings faring thus far? Have they got a considerable hole of their accrued wealth on the greens? Allow us to discover out.

Can Nelly Korda surpass Lexi Thompson’s profession earnings?

Lexi Thompson has made 91 profession top-10s to this point. She has additionally received 11 occasions on the LPGA tour since she turned professional in 2010. Upon counting all her earnings on the LPGA Tour, the sum provides as much as a whopping $14,513,412 in complete. Her largest purse win? Effectively, that got here to be a large quantity of $718,827. She earned this with a T2 end on the 2022 KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.

Thompson recorded one other large quantity of a whopping $500,000 in his purse shares. It was when she received the CME Group Tour Championship in 2018. Nonetheless, her solely main win, the 2014 Chevron Championship had given her solely $300,000. That quantity was quickly surpassed by her different High 10 finishes

In comparison with Thompson’s profession on the LPGA Tour, Nelly Korda has been on the greens for a shorter interval. Korda began her paycheck with a single $10k when she turned professional in 2016. Two years later, she received the Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship introduced by CTBC and earned her largest paycheck until then, $330,000.

Nonetheless, to this point, her profession’s highest quantity has been acquired from the 2024 Chevron Championship which was $1,200,000. Furthermore, like Thompson, she additionally earned an enormous paycheck from the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship. Because the winner of its 2021 version, Korda received an amazing share of $675,000. Her profession earnings on the LPGA Tour stand at $11,880,981 at the moment.

Given how Lexi Thompson has introduced her retirement after the season, Nelly Korda can quickly surpass the distinction of $2,632,431 because the apex golfer isn’t even fascinated by retirement. However how has the golfers’ play in 2024 helped their profession earnings thus far?

How a lot have Korda and Thompson earned on this season thus far?

Lexi Thompson has missed 5 cuts thus far out of which 4 had been in a straight streak. This included two majors of the season: the Chevron Championship and the US Ladies’s Open. But, Thompson completed as a runner-up within the Meijer LPGA Basic for Merely Give and earned her season’s largest share, $234,649. Out of the ten occasions she has performed this season but, Thompson didn’t make any cash in 4 of the occasions for apparent causes. Nonetheless, the 29-year-old golfer has managed to earn $586,396.

Whereas Thompson awaits a painful departure from golf, for Nelly Korda, 2024 has been the most effective season financially. The previous has performed in 11 occasions in complete, making cuts in 8 of them. Within the very first occasion of the season, she completed at T16, after which her magical streak of 5 consecutive wins started. On this single season, Korda has earned $2,943,708. Coincidentally, like Thompson, Nelly Korda too had missed cuts in two majors of the season, the U.S. Ladies’s Open and the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship. Within the latter occasion,  Thompson completed at T9 and earned $192,046, whereas Korda’s stability remained $0.

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