Who is Nelly Korda’s caddie?

Nelly Korda had her most successful season to date in 2024, so who is her caddie?

Born in 1998, Korda has established herself as one of the most dominant players in the game. It’s thanks to multiple LPGA Tour and major championship wins.

Seven of those triumphs – one of them a major – landed in 2024, cementing her as the women’s world No.1.

Meanwhile, the Floridian earned her first LPGA Tour win at 20-years-old and has since represented Team USA at the Solheim Cup three times, as well as claiming an Olympic gold medal.

By her side throughout it all has been caddie Jason McDede.

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Nelly Korda’s caddie

The pair started working together at the beginning of the 2018 season, two years after she made her professional debut in 2016.

But the winning partnership began when Korda won the Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship in October 2018.

Since then, they have tasted plenty of success on the LPGA and Ladies European Tour, but the biggest scalp was arguably at the Women’s PGA Championship in 2021.

It was Korda’s breakthrough year, winning four times, a gold medal and becoming the women’s world No.1 for the first time.

McDede had been with a fellow LPGA winner before working with Korda, as the American caddie worked for Lizette Salas.

And Nelly Korda’s caddie is the husband of tour pro Caroline Masson. The German golfer is also a multiple winner and Solheim Cup star.

In 2019, McDede was met with a dilemma, as Korda faced up against Masson in a play-off for the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA title.

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Korda would win the three-way battle, which also featured Minjee Lee, with a birdie on the first hole.

McDede later said: “There were some congratulations and some big-time respect from everyone in the group towards each other.

“Caroline was very happy for Nelly and myself and I think she was also proud of how hard she fought.

“You can always say ‘what if’ in golf but I think, for a long career, you have to take the good weeks and remember them more than the bad weeks.”

While McDede has been the mainstay on Korda’s bag through most of her pro career, she also had Tiger Woods’ ex-looper Joe LaCava on board at one point.

After working together for several years, McDede took an extended break for personal reasons, so Korda drafted in LaCava.

Now Patrick Cantlay’s full-time bagman, LaCava took on Nelly’s bag for the Founders Cup in May 2023.