KPMG Women's PGA Championship storylines: Will Charley Hull and Lottie Woad stop world No 1 Nelly Korda's major dominance?

Nelly Korda has been the dominant force in the women's game over the past year, with the world No 1 looking to continue her extraordinary start to 2026 by claiming a third consecutive major victory.

Korda has eight top-three finishes in her last nine starts, with four wins on the LPGA Tour this season, including a dominant five-shot victory at the Chevron Championship - the opening major of the year - and a one-shot triumph at the US Women's Open.

The American is now just one major win away from earning the final two points to qualify for the LPGA Hall of Fame, with Korda also having opportunities at the Evian Championship and AIG Women's Open this summer to complete the career Grand Slam.

Inbee Park in 2013 became the only player in the modern era to win the first three women's majors of the year, with Korda now looking to replicate that at the tournament where she claimed her breakthrough major success in 2021.

Korda has past form at Hazeltine, too, having finished tied-third when the Minnesota venue last hosted the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in 2019. Anyone managing to sit above Korda on the leaderboard come Sunday could well be celebrating major victory.

It is 30 years since Dame Laura Davies won the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for a second time, with Charley Hull now having a fresh opportunity to end that 30-year wait for another English winner at the event.

Hull has five runner-up finishes in majors - including four in the last four years - without claiming her breakthrough win, with the latest coming when she finished a shot behind Korda at the US Women's Open.

The world No 4 continues to regularly contend in majors but has admitted to having late-night dreams reliving the past near-misses, with Hull also revealing doubts about whether she will ever eventually claim her maiden major title.

Hull insists she can beat anybody when playing her best golf but remains limited to three LPGA Tour titles in her career, most recently last September, with no Englishwoman winning a major since Georgia Hall's 2018 AIG Women's Open success.