{"id":544783,"date":"2026-03-25T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:55:13","slug":"all-smiles-korda-sisters-back-together-for-ford-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544783\/","title":{"rendered":"All smiles: Korda sisters back together for Ford Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

After three years, the Korda sisters are officially back on tour together.<\/p>\n

Nelly, 27, and Jessica, 33, are both set to play the Ford Championship beginning on Thursday in Chandler, Arizona, and it marks the first time in three years that they\u2019ll compete in the same LPGA event. The last time the sister duo teed off alongside each other was the 2023 Founders Cup and Jessica said it\u2019s definitely nice to have her sister out to ease into the tournament week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, don\u2019t have to think about who you\u2019re going to play a practice round with or you\u2019re going to sit at lunch with,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of new faces, especially after not being out here for three years. So, I think there is maybe like a handful of players that I really know from when I was playing actively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica has taken most of the last three years off to deal with a nagging back injury and to care for her first child, Greyson, who was born in 2024. She said she has no idea what to expect for her first tournament back but is ready for the return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just really happy to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I would tee it up again after I was withdrawing out of a couple events in 2023, so being here feeling good, we\u2019ll see where it takes us.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she\u2019s still dealing with pain, she thinks the time off and knowing how to better manage it will help her compete on the course. She\u2019s played in only one tournament since her son was born, last year\u2019s Grant Thornton Invitational, an unofficial team event, and said it was rough as a new mother. <\/p>\n

\u201cGreyson decided to not sleep, so I didn\u2019t sleep from midnight to 5:00 a.m., it adds another variable to golf, to preparation,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cHopefully he sleeps this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jessica Korda announced Sunday that she is out indefinitely due to a lingering back injury.<\/p>\n

Luckily, it\u2019s a full-blown family affair for the Kordas this week and their mother is staying with them at the tournament to help out with Greyson. Jessica said it\u2019ll be quite the change to have the opportunity to play uninterrupted golf for hopefully four days in a row. \u201cWhen I play at home the rounds are so fast; I\u2019m on a golf cart; sometimes I don\u2019t finish 18 holes because I don\u2019t have time for it. I got to go home and relieve the babysitter,\u201d Jessica said.<\/p>\n

Nelly, however, has spent the last three years going full throttle on the LPGA Tour and finished 2024 as the No. 1 player in the world. She won the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions to begin this season and after sitting out the Asia swing, she was runner-up last week at the Fortinet Founders Cup. <\/p>\n

Despite her success, she said she\u2019s learned a lot from her older sister, especially when she first turned pro, and that it was a huge adjustment for her not having Jessica on the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cJess taught me what life on tour was kind of like,\u201d Nelly said. \u201cNot many people really talk about it, but sometimes it is like a super isolating, lonely life out here… So, knowing what the tour life was like, traveling and getting the insight from her from \u2014 she turned pro in 2011\u2014 I feel like, for me, really helped me my rookie year on of having a built-in best buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With the LPGA canceling the final round of the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions amid extreme cold, Korda\u2019s 13 under was enough for a three-shot victory.<\/p>\n

Younger-sister Nelly has always been known for her quiet demeanor and said she loves watching Jessica\u2019s energy on the course. \u201cI don\u2019t really show too much up and down during my rounds and she really throws out really big fist pumps. That\u2019s something I always admired about her,\u201d Nelly said.<\/p>\n

In addition to her on-course emotion, Nelly also said she has been continuously impressed throughout her career by her sister\u2019s ability to make clutch putts. \u201cPlaying alongside her in Solheim Cups. There were so many times I was like, \u2018Oh, my God, please make this, I really don\u2019t want to putt,\u2019 and she did,\u201d Nelly said.<\/p>\n

As for Jessica, she said she admires nearly the entirety of her sister\u2019s golf game. \u201cHer feel, touch around the greens, playing in tough conditions, how she just burrows down. I think if you see her name up on the leaderboard during crappy weather you\u2019re like, \u2018oh, crap,\u2019\u201d Jessica said. \u201cShe would rather rip your throat out than lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelly won the Ford Championship in 2024 and will have her work cut out for her this year going up against world No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul and defending champ Hyo Joo Kim, who edged the younger Korda last week at the Founders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three years, the Korda sisters are officially back on tour together. Nelly, 27, and Jessica, 33, are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-544783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544783","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=544783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}