No professional golfer is immune to the worry of losing their luggage, even if they are sponsored by an airline. Nelly Korda, the world’s No. 1 golfer, has been with Delta his entire career and called the sponsorship “the most natural” when it was announced in July 2023.

So when Korda posted a plea for help on social media after his luggage failed to arrive in Geneva, where the Amundi Evian Championship in France was taking place, the American golfer was certainly out of options.

“Since we flew in in the morning and France is six hours ahead, all the people I needed to contact were sleeping,” Korda explained.

With the help of an LPGA media employee whose father works in the airline industry, Korda’s luggage was delivered to Geneva on Monday and she was able to practice unharmed. The American enters the fourth major of the LPGA season after a two-week break and is looking for her first win of the year. Korda said she did not touch a club for four days after the KPMG Women’s PGA in June.

“Sometimes trying to train too hard at this time of year doesn’t give you an advantage, because you just burn yourself out mentally, and you don’t stay fresh when you compete,” Korda said.“It’s all about balance. I’m going into my 10th year as a pro, and I feel really old, but you learn that over time.”

The 2025 LPGA season will feature a record 18 different winners, and Nelly Korda is not among them. Last season, the world’s top four golfers took home 15 titles, but this year they have only won two: Atthaya Thitikul and Lydia Ko each won one. Korda and Ruoning Yin remain empty-handed.

Lydia Ko commented:

“It’s much harder to win now. Not because it was easy back then, but now the rankings are much more diverse, there are more golfers from Japan, Thailand, America than ever before. When I first came on the tour, this was not common.”

The last time Lydia Ko visited France, she won the Olympic gold medal in Paris, qualifying for the LPGA Hall of Fame. The 28-year-old New Zealander won her 23rd LPGA title earlier this year at the HSBC Women’s Championship in Singapore, but has now gone six tournaments without a top-10 finish. However, since 2013, when Evian became a major, no one has performed better at the event than Ko: she won in 2015 and added six top-10s in 11 appearances.

“I remember the year I won, I putted really well,” Ko said. “That’s definitely going to be a key factor for me this week.”

Meanwhile, for Nelly Korda, she played 10 tournaments in 2024 and won 6, but in 2025 that number is still 0. However, the statistics show that: her average score this year (69.67 strokes) is lower than last year (70 strokes), and she has outstanding stats in ball striking and putting.

Evian remains the only major Korda has not finished in the top five in seven attempts. She won both the KPMG Women’s PGA and Chevron Championship, and finished runner-up at the US Women’s Open (2025) and AIG Women’s British Open (2024).

“In majors, you can never get comfortable,” Korda said.“You have to live in a state of uncertainty, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. Especially at Evian, there were shots that looked good, but the ball bounced weird.”

Korda’s sister Jessica is also at Evian this week, taking on her first on-course reporter role for Golf Channel, despite previously working for ESPN+. Jessica announced an indefinite withdrawal from the tour in May 2023 to deal with a persistent back injury, then announced her pregnancy later that year.

“I’m so happy to have her here. Even though the role of a reporter is new, I think it’s exciting for her, a way to step out of her comfort zone,” Korda shared.