{"id":295035,"date":"2025-11-16T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:47:11","slug":"nelly-korda-fires-63-at-the-annika-and-lebron-james-takes-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295035\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda fires 63 at The Annika, and LeBron James takes notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

BELLEAIR, Fla. \u2013 \u201cHelluva putt Nelly!\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the words of NBA star LeBron James, now a certified golf sicko as well, who was apparently locked into Friday\u2019s coverage of The Annika driven by Gainbridge.<\/p>\n

After Korda poured a birdie putt at Pelican Golf Club\u2019s par-4 18th hole, her third straight and seventh of the day, to shoot 7-under 63, James took to X to share his excitement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s so cool, especially playing on Wednesday with [WNBA star] Caitlin [Clark],\u201d Korda said when asked about James\u2019 support. \u201cI actually did see he tweeted about my shoes, too, so it\u2019s cool to see all these legends get into the game of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

Korda, a three-time winner at Pelican, including last year, didn\u2019t miss a fairway on Friday, and she failed to hit only one green in regulation. She is playing this week for the first time since she tied for fourth at the Lotte Championship in early October, as she\u2019s missed time rehabbing another neck injury.<\/p>\n

At 6 under, she entered the weekend three shots back of Grace Kim and Linn Grant.<\/p>\n

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Linn Grant shot a 7-under 63 on Friday for a share of the lead with Grace Kim in The Annika. Defending champion Nelly Korda made a big move with a 63 of her own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re away for a little bit you miss it a lot, so I love playing at home,\u201d Korda said. \u201cI love playing in front of my family. It\u2019s good to recharge your batteries, too. The year is long, and we have lot of obligations sometimes off the golf course, too\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what I love to do. I love to compete, and I love to play some good golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

And James loves watching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLEAIR, Fla. \u2013 \u201cHelluva putt Nelly!\u201d Those were the words of NBA star LeBron James, now a certified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-295035","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\/295035","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=295035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}