After a three-year gap, Korda sisters will finally resume their sibling rivary in LPGA this week
Jessica and Nelly Korda have played nearly 100 tournaments together, but this week's Ford Championship in Arizona will be their first together since 2023
Sisters Nelly and Jessica Korda are back together again on the golf course. The Bradenton, Fla. natives are playing in the Ford Championship in Chandler, Ariz.
, the first full official LPGA Tour event they’ve played in together since 2023. World No. 2 Nelly feels in her comfort zone with her sister in the field.
Jessica Korda battled a chronic back injury that caused her to go on indefinite leave from the tour and then she gave birth to her son, Greyson, in 2024. “It's more of like life outside of the golf course where you're just a lot more comfortable,” Nelly said in a fun press conference with her sister from Whirlwind Golf Club. “I think when we're both on the golf course … we’ll check the leaderboards here and there, but I think what really helps and what was a huge actual adjustment for me was kind of like life off the golf course, not having her there.
Having that dinner buddy occasionally, playing a practice round together, majority of the weeks playing a practice round together. ” They’re staying together in a rental house, with Nelly doing the cooking and their mom, Regina Rajchrtová, babysitting Greyson. Jessica, 33, has been out of competition on tour for almost three years.