{"id":290183,"date":"2025-11-14T01:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290183\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:21:13","slug":"nelly-korda-back-in-action-on-lpga-after-preventative-break-for-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290183\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda back in action on LPGA after &#8216;preventative&#8217; break for neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELLEAIR, Fla. \u2013 For the first time in over a month, Nelly Korda is back competing on the LPGA.<\/p>\n<p>Korda, who missed several weeks with another neck injury, is in the 108-player field for this week\u2019s penultimate event of the LPGA season, The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>For Korda, this is at least the third occurrence of neck issues, dating to late last summer when she was sidelined for eight weeks. She hasn\u2019t competed since the Lotte Championship in early October in Hawaii, where she tied for fourth, her eighth top-10 finish in what\u2019s been a winless season for the former world No. 1, now No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Korda called the break mainly preventative, as she\u2019s more in tune with her body after dealing with a blood clot in March 2022; she said she experienced symptoms for three weeks before seeing a doctor, who discovered the clot in her right arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing with injuries and how many we travel and train, like you\u2019re never pain-free,\u201d Korda said. \u201cIf you go to any athlete across all sports and ask them if they\u2019re pain-free, they\u2019re going to tell you that they\u2019re not. So, last year was probably, I\u2019m not going lie, one of my worst injuries ever. I wasn\u2019t sure if I was going to be able to play the rest of the year. I thought I was out for the season. And if I\u2019m starting to feel that pain a little bit, and I know that could possibly recur, I have to prioritize my body and say that, OK, I need to step back, take some time off, and make sure I don\u2019t go down that path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korda said she didn\u2019t touch a club for almost three weeks, instead focusing on rehab that included the use of something called the Iron Neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt pretty much hooks up to a band, and you\u2019re trying to hold the positions to strength train the muscles in your neck from all different angles,\u201d Korda explained. \u201c\u2026 F1 drivers use it a lot to strength train their neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korda also used her time off to introduce some new irons, switching from the TaylorMade P\u20227MCs to the P\u20227CBs in hopes of getting a little more height on her approach shots.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"\u2018Something out of a book&#039;: Caitlin Clark\u2019s LPGA encore delivers again\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/lpga\/news\/something-out-of-a-book-caitlin-clarks-lpga-encore-delivers-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"GOLF: NOV 12 LPGA The ANNIKA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763083273_587_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though Clark\u2019s game, especially off the tee, didn\u2019t cooperate Wednesday at The Annika, simply the LPGA megastar\u2019s returning presence on the women\u2019s golf stage was enough to boost the sport once more.<\/p>\n<p>Still No. 10 in CME points, Korda is in no danger of failing to qualify for next week\u2019s 60-player CME Group Tour Championship, so she has two more events to try and avoid her first winless season since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been a weird year, but \u2026 I\u2019ve had years where I haven\u2019t won and I played great golf; then the next year I won a few,\u201d said Korda, who then won five times in 2021; she had 15 wins between 2022 last year\u2019s seven-win performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just sports. It\u2019s golf. You can\u2019t expect to win. You can expect to put in 100%: 100% into your body, 100% in your routine, 100% into your practice, have no distractions. That\u2019s what I can control, and that is what I will control. But everything else is kind of out of my control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLEAIR, Fla. \u2013 For the first time in over a month, Nelly Korda is back competing on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-290183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}