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Nelly Korda Cards Opening 67 on Day One at TPC River's Bend | News | LPGA |  Ladies Professional Golf AssociationNelly Korda signs multiyear equipment deal with TaylorMade

In recent years TaylorMade has shifted its strategy regarding its tour staff players, focusing on obtaining and retaining as many of the game’s best players as possible instead trying to top the overall tour count on a weekly basis. Now it seems it is extending that “best-player” focus to the LPGA. On Monday, the company announced it had signed Nelly Korda, the No. 2-ranked player in the Rolex Women’s Ranking. The multi-year deal will have Korda playing a bagful of TaylorMade clubs along with its TP5 ball, wear TaylorMade-branded headwear and have a company-branded staff bag. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

An eight-time winner on the LPGA (including one major championship) as well as an Olympic gold medalist, Korda, previously with Titleist, fits in nicely with the company’s tour strategy.“I signed with TaylorMade because of their proven ability to elevate the game of the best golfers in the world,” Korda said in a statement released by the company. “In testing with the TaylorMade tour team, it was clear that not only was I working with high-performing equipment, but also a team that shared my passion for working as hard as possible to be in the best position to win.”

The announcement came a day after Korda revealed via social media that she had signed a deal with Nike to wear its apparel.

Although Korda continues to test equipment, her setup for this week’s LPGA 2023 opener, the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions at Lake Nona, appears to include a 9-degree TaylorMade new Stealth 2 HD driver as well as Stealth 2 fairway woods and a split set of P770 and P7MC irons along with a pair of Milled Grind 3 wedges. The company did not say whether Korda would start out with one of the company’s putters.

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