Haeran Ryu has won consecutive LPGA majors, shattered scoring records and now enters the AIG Women's Open with a chance to join golf's rarest company once more.
Haeran Ryu isn’t merely having a great LPGA season. She’s threatening to turn the 2026 major calendar into her personal demolition tour.
The 25-year-old Korean star heads toward the AIG Women’s Open with consecutive major victories, the No. 3 position in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings and a chance to accomplish something almost untouched in LPGA history.
With another win, Ryu would join Babe Zaharias and Inbee Park as the only players to capture three straight majors within one year.
That possibility would’ve sounded outrageous a few months ago. Now, it feels dangerously realistic.
Ryu broke through at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after opening the tournament 10 shots behind.
Rounds of 64 and 68 launched her into control at Hazeltine National, and she finished at 13-under, beating Ina Yoon by two strokes.
The comeback made her the first golfer since 1964 to erase a double-digit opening-round deficit and win an LPGA major.
Two weeks later, she somehow raised the volume in France.
Ryu fired a third-round 60 at The Amundi Evian Championship, producing nine birdies and an eagle in the lowest round ever recorded in an LPGA major.
She eventually finished 19-under and defeated former champion Brooke Henderson on the first playoff hole.
That victory made Ryu only the ninth golfer since 1980 to win consecutive LPGA majors in the same season.
It also transformed her from an elite player into the most dangerous force in women’s golf.
The numbers back up the intimidation factor.
Ryu has finished inside the top 10 in eight of her first 12 starts this season, earned nearly $4.2 million and missed only one cut.
She leads the LPGA Tour in greens in regulation at 80.37 percent, greens hit from the fairway at 86.71 percent and overall ball striking.
This explosion didn’t come from nowhere. Ryu won the 2023 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship as a rookie, added the 2024 FM Championship in a playoff and crushed the field by five shots at the 2025 Black Desert Championship.
She’s now won in each of her first four LPGA seasons.
Across 86 career starts, Ryu has made 75 cuts, recorded 32 top-10 finishes, collected five victories and earned nearly $10 million.
She already owns Rookie of the Year honors, two major trophies and one of the hottest resumes in professional golf.
The AIG Women’s Open offers something even bigger than another championship.
Ryu has a shot at immortality, and right now, nobody on the LPGA Tour looks more capable of taking it.
