I’ve watched Nelly play a lot, especially on Solheim Cups. She’s got so much talent. I think sometimes when I watched her, especially early in her career, I thought she was a great putter. I felt like she and I were very similar in golf games because I hit the ball a long way. … Watching her play I saw a lot of her game compare to mine very similarly.

To give Nelly any kind of advice is to enjoy this time. Try and be a little bit more open. There’s a shyness about her that she has. Just really, really go for it, and really enjoy what’s happening to her. Because, as for me, before you know it’s gone, and you’re old and retired. I think it’s just important to really take every moment and live it to the max.

I expected her to do this all along. She’s such a great player, so it doesn’t surprise me. She has a great swing, and she’s smart in that she’ll take chances when it’s available but also plays conservative, which you have to do some shots, some courses require not being overly aggressive. … We’ve needed an American to really rise up and get all the interest back in.”

All parts of her game are so good. You knew at some point she would have a streak where she would dominate. She’s doing that right now. 

You can tell by looking at her she has the confidence she thinks that she should win. As a player, you always want to get to that point where you feel like you can win every tournament you tee it up in. That’s kind of the ultimate as a player.

But there aren’t many players who have the talent to do that. Nelly does. 

I’m not surprised, I will tell you. It’s very impressive. Four very different golf courses. And the three weeks in a row I think was the most impressive.

The amount of energy it takes to do that, I thought you would’ve maybe seen a little drop in play at Match Play just getting a little bit more tired. But the ball-striking has always been so good for her. Short game gets a little better, the confidence to be in that position. I think that’s what you’re seeing more now.

That’s was why I put her in the spot I did at Solheim, because I felt like she could handle that moment. She had to learn. She had to learn how to handle it.

I’m not surprised. I knew it was just going to be a matter of time.

For my money, it’s the adversity that she’s overcome in order to do it – on difficult golf courses and the weather conditions, and one being a match play versus a regular 72-hole tournament.

This is something that is really unprecedented when it comes to the style of golf and the conditions that she’s had to play in. … The roller coaster of events and winning two of them in playoffs – all of it amounts to it’s not been an easy four victories, but somehow she’s managed to overcome. And the golf that she has played has been really quite spectacular. 

You know, I don’t like comparing generations. I don’t like comparing different players with different times.

I’m always going to tell you Lorena Ochoa is the best ever. Period. Like that’s just my opinion. There was a time – I remember that in 2008 – where I remember thinking, is anybody ever going to win again? Like nobody is ever going to beat Lorena again.

Obviously, Annika was great, but Lorena had something. Lorena had something that nobody did. I think Nelly is as close to Lorena right now as anybody. She just kind of has this – doesn’t matter what comes at her. The final rounds have been weather issues and been terrible weather and it doesn’t seem to faze her.

So I think she’s the closest thing to Lorena speaking of those streaks. That’s what I think right now.

 I don’t think I can put a scale to what she’s accomplished. That’s honestly just such an incredible feat. There is only one Nelly Korda, and I think she really shows how she’s the best right now in the game. Even growing up I’ve always watched her play. There was obviously something special about her.

So to see her do all that she’s done, especially last four events, it’s been really inspiring.

Obviously, Nelly is the best player in the world right now probably male or female. She is playing unbelievable golf and I knew I was going to have to bring my A-plus game if I was going to have a chance.

Just didn’t putt well enough, and hats off to Nelly. She really didn’t give me much of a chance. Yeah, it’s very impressive what she’s doing.

This is definitely one of the best stretches I think a player has played in my 11 years on tour. I saw that was it like May (Ariya Jutanugarn) and Annika (Sorenstam) were maybe the last two that had won three, four events in a row.

The max I’ve done is two and I was like, this is pretty cool to be able to win back-to-back weeks.

For her to win the second event of the year and have eight weeks off and win the next three, I was like, man, I shouldn’t have played, we’re all playing for second place.

But I was lucky enough to play alongside Nelly in Phoenix and she played great and she putted great. She’s obviously coming in with a lot of confidence. And even on the men’s side I think Scottie Scheffler is having a great stretch of his own as well.

It’s pretty impressive, and sometimes people are like, it must be that much easier to win. It’s showing and saying something about the player if they’re winning four weeks straight. I think it’s great for women’s golf, and I think with her playing well, it’s inspiring and motivating the rest of us to keep doing what we’re working on.