Tour Confidential: Is the Summer of Nelly upon us? Has Furyk learned from Ryder Cup?

Nelly Korda conducts an interview in the moments following her Chevron Championship victory Sunday. Getty Images Check in every week for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors as they break down the hottest topics in the sport, and join the conversation by tweeting us at @golf_com . This week, we discuss Nelly Korda’s second turn of dominance, the new Ryder Cup captain and its exorbitant ticket prices.

Nelly Korda won the Chevron Championship, blitzing the field to win by five and claim the first major of the year, the third of her career. Two years ago she won seven times, but followed it up with a winless 2025. This year she has already won twice.

Is a summer of Nelly Korda dominance ahead? What’s changed? James Colgan, news and features editor ( @jamescolgan26 ): It is the hardest thing in golf to win a tournament.

And yet, it is very, very hard to lose golf tournaments when you’re playing the way Nelly did this weekend. On the front nine on Sunday with a five-shot lead, feeling all of the pressure in the world to close it out, Korda made seven pars and two birdies. There’s a maturity in that kind of sensibility on Sunday at a major, and I think it explains a lot of her success in Houston.