Nelly Korda just delivered the LPGA's dream moment. Will anyone notice?

Nelly Korda stood over a 2 ½-foot putt to complete her lifelong dream Sunday at Riviera Country Club and wondered why she had not left herself something a little bit easier to win the U.S. Women's Open.

"I was like, 'Good Lord,'" she said. "I wish I had my WHOOP showcase my heart rate, because it was definitely high."

It was a scene professional golf does not get very often: The best and most famous player in the world, playing at one of America's most historic venues, needing to sink a pressure putt on the 72nd hole to avoid a playoff and close out the most important championship in the sport.

And as Korda watched her ticklish left-to-righter ride the side of the cup nearly all the way around before falling in, she pursed her lips as if to say, "No, no, no … YES!" before covering her mouth with her right hand and raising her arms in victory .

For the LPGA, a league that has frankly struggled to capitalize on the women's sports boom of the last few years, it was as good as it can get, a moment of gripping drama served up on a silver platter to take this sport to another level.

In the golf world, Korda should be what Caitlin Clark is to women's basketball, what Serena Williams was to women's tennis, what Simone Biles has been to gymnastics. A huge draw wherever she goes. A constant presence on billboards and television ads. A mainstream superstar.

That was all true before Sunday, however, when Korda won her fourth major title — and none of it has really connected beyond a niche audience for women's golf within the larger sport's already niche audience.

It might be the strangest phenomenon (or non-phenomenon, if you will) in sports.