{"id":55179,"date":"2025-11-29T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55179\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:01:15","slug":"nelly-korda-announces-engagement-after-wrapping-up-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55179\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda announces engagement after wrapping up season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly Korda said \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 2 ranked golfer and Bradenton, Fla. native, who wrapped her ninth season on the LPGA tour last week, announced that she\u2019s engaged in an Instagram post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this life\u2026 &amp; the next \ud83d\udc8d,\u201d Nelly wrote, including photos from and fianc\u00e9, Casey Gunderson\u2019s engagement shoot.<\/p>\n<p>The couple posed with a newspaper that read: \u201cWe\u2019re getting married!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry boys, she\u2019s off the market. \ud83d\udc83 \ud83e\udd1d\ud83d\udc83,\u201d her sister Jessica Korda, who previously played on\u00a0the LPGA Tour, wrote. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.64550781;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37791199\" width=\"381\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/korda.jpg\" alt=\"American golfer Nelly Korda announced her engagement in an  Instagram post on November 28, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37791199\"  \/>American golfer Nelly Korda announced her engagement in an  Instagram post on November 28, 2025. Instagram\/Jessica Korda<\/p>\n<p>Jessica reshared Nelly\u2019s post, adding, \u201cShe said YAAAAAASSSS. Couldn\u2019t be happier for these two.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lakers superstar LeBron James, two-time WNBA All-Star Caitlin Clark and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/09\/sports\/inside-michelle-wie-wests-early-retirement-life-after-two-decades-of-golf-prodigy-scrutiny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">golf legend Michelle Wie West <\/a>were among those that shared congratulatory comments.<\/p>\n<p>Nelly and Clark were paired in the pro-am at The ANNIKA on Nov. 12. <\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s engagement photos were taken in Florida, according to Kasey Powell, a wedding photographer. <\/p>\n<p>Gunderson is a vice president at Florida Engineering, LLC, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/casey-gunderson-600808122\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Gunderson enrolled at Bryant University from 2014-2018, and played wide receiver for the Bulldogs. He did not appear in a game, according to the team <a href=\"https:\/\/bryantbulldogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/casey-gunderson\/675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Before that, Gunderson was a three-year starter at IMG Academy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66601563;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37791623\" width=\"393\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nelly-korda-united-states-plays-116104159.jpg\" alt=\"Nelly Korda of the United States plays a shot on the 15th hole during the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship 2025 at Tiburon Golf Club on November 23, 2025 in Naples, Florida.  \" class=\"wp-image-37791623\"  \/>Nelly Korda of the United States plays a shot on the 15th hole during the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship 2025 at Tiburon Golf Club on November 23, 2025 in Naples, Florida.   Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The engagement announcement comes after Nelly\u2019s solo third-place finish at the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Fla. last week. <\/p>\n<p>Nelly\u2019s first signature shoe with Nike,\u00a0the Nike Free Golf \u201cNelly Korda,\u201d launched Nov. 20. <\/p>\n<p>Her brother, tennis player Sebastian Korda, and his long-time girlfriend Ivana Nedved announced their engagement earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-time LPGA winner appeared in this year\u2019s edition of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda said \u201cyes.\u201d The World No. 2 ranked golfer and Bradenton, Fla. native, who wrapped her ninth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30154,30155,30156,2014,30157,9,11,10,319,2085],"class_list":{"0":"post-55179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-celebrity-engagements","9":"tag-engagement-rings","10":"tag-engagements","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-nelly-korda","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}