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Jessica and Nelly Korda Are Reuniting on the LGPA Tour

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Nelly and Jessica Korda will both compete at the Ford Championship in Phoenix this week, their first appearance together at an official LPGA event since Jessica withdrew from a tournament in May 2023 due to a back injury.

The Korda Sisters Reunite on LGPA Tour Michael Reaves - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links. " Nelly and Jessica Korda are teeing it up together at an official LPGA event for the first time since 2023, marking a reunion on tour for one of professional golf’s most prominent sibling pairs. Both women will compete in the Ford Championship in Phoenix, running from Thursday, March 26 through Sunday, March 29.

Jessica, 33, is returning to competition after a back injury and the birth of her first child, a son named Greyson. “I didn’t think I would tee it up again after I was withdrawing out of a couple events in 2023, so being here, feeling good, we’ll see where it takes us,” Jessica, a six-time LPGA Tour winner, told Golfweek . “Three years is a very long time.

” Jessica at the Women’s PGA Championship in 2022. Rob Carr - Getty Images Nelly at the 2026 Fortinet Founders Cup on March 22. Eakin Howard - Getty Images The sisters have appeared in nearly 100 LPGA events together since the 2013 U.

S. Women’s Open, though they are often assigned to different waves. But as Nelly told Town & Country last year, the game has always had a more personal element for her thanks to her sister.