What the Career Grand Slam Actually Requires
The LPGA defines the Career Grand Slam as winning four of the five active major championships: the Chevron Championship, the Women’s PGA Championship, the U.S. Women’s Open, the AIG Women’s British Open, and the Amundi Evian Championship. Winning all five earns the “Super Career Grand Slam” title. This requirement honors historical eras with fewer majors, and only seven players have achieved the feat, with Karrie Webb being the sole winner of all five.
Korda owns the Women’s PGA from 2021, the Chevron titles from 2024 and 2026, and the U.S. Women’s Open from this season. One left. The British Open or the Evian — both before mid-August. That’s a tight little checklist for a player running this hot.
The Hall of Fame and Other Milestones
The Grand Slam headlines write themselves, but it’s not the only record queued up. Entering the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National in Minnesota, Korda needed two Hall of Fame points, the precise value of a major win. A victory there would hand her the Grand Slam and LPGA Hall of Fame induction simultaneously, at 27, on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, she finished T8 at the event, with only two majors remaining in the season.
Sorenstam’s all-time LPGA career earnings record of $22.6 million is also in range. Korda sits roughly $1.1 million back, and majors now pay close to $2 million. The math is not subtle.
The Star Beyond the Scorecard
The final round at Riviera drew 1.3 million viewers on television, with a peak of 2.2 million — a 76 percent increase over the prior year’s U.S. Women’s Open numbers, on a weekend that also hosted the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup. Women’s golf doesn’t usually win that battle for eyeballs. Korda changed the outcome.
Off the course, the roster of partners — Nike, TaylorMade, BMW, Goldman Sachs, Stanley 1913 — reads less like a sponsorship sheet and more like a validation of how broadly her appeal has spread. Sportico listed her among the highest-paid female athletes on Earth for two consecutive years. She’s done the Met Gala, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and late-night television. The sport has a crossover star, full stop.
Golf rewards patience, not inevitability, and the Grand Slam still has to be earned shot by shot. But Korda has assembled the kind of 2026 that makes the remaining work look less like an obstacle and more like a formality she hasn’t gotten around to yet. One more major. One more Sunday. History has a way of finding the right moment, and right now, all the moments seem to belong to her.