The lingering question for the last three months on the LPGA Tour was when Nelly Korda finally would win this year.

Now the question should be who’s going to win next?

The latest entrants into the 2025 winner’s ledgers were Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im at the Dow Championship, the only official team event on the LPGA schedule. That made it 17 straight tournaments with different winners.

The LPGA has not seen this level of parity — or maybe it’s lack of dominance — in its 75-year history. The previous record to start a season was 15 different winners in 2017 and 1991.

Perhaps even more telling was this amazing streak of different winners was assured long before the South Korean duo birdied the first playoff hole to beat out Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang. That’s because no one from the top 16 teams on the leaderboard at the Dow Championship had won this year.

And to think it was a year ago when Korda ran off five straight victories to tie an LPGA record and ended the season with seven wins and as the dominant figure in women’s golf. It would be asking a lot for her to repeat that (Scottie Scheffler is nodding his head), though it’s still somewhat surprising that Korda hasn’t registered a win halfway through the season.

“It’s golf,” Korda said going into the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship two weeks ago, where she was on the fringe of contention until the wind blew her into reverse. “Every year is just so different. Last year coming into this event, I had five wins. I think even Hannah Green had multiple wins under her belt, too.”

The competition certainly is more diverse.

The top 10 players in the women’s world ranking represent eight countries. The 17 tournaments this year have been won by players from eight countries — including South Korea with four wins, and three each for the United States, Sweden and the potentially emerging power of Japan.

But the parity is best illustrated by comparisons to the other streaks of different winners.

There have been five first-time winners on the LPGA (six including both Lee and Im from the Dow Championship), and only three winners came into this year with at least five career victories on the LPGA.

When the 2017 season began with 15 different winners, all of them previously had won on the LPGA and eight of them already had at least five wins. In 1991, which also featured 15 different winners to start the year, there were two first-time winners — one of them was World Golf Hall of Fame member Meg Mallon — and nine of those players already had five-plus LPGA wins.

“I think winning out here is getting tougher and tougher,” Carlota Ciganda said after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic, her first LPGA title in more than eight years. “Lots of really good players, especially lots of youngster. Also good Japanese and Korean and Asians, and even Americans. Like, I think it’s not easy.”

It’s either parity or it’s simply cyclical, and these things have a way of working themselves out.

The 2017 season ended with nine multiple winners, none with more than two victories. South Korean rookie Sung-hyun Park and So Yeon Ryu shared the points-based LPGA player of the year, the first time for a tie since the award began in 1966. Four players left the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship with a trophy of some variety.

That was some serious parity.