LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Jessica and Nelly Korda love each other; they’re sisters, but they’re also fierce competitors.
As young girls, the Kordas played golf together nearly every day, and a competitiveness grew between the siblings. Jessica, 27, says her younger sister, an AJGA All-American, didn’t once beat her in those friendly matches at home. When Nelly, 22, joined the LPGA in 2017, she made up for all those losses and beat her sister in her first event on Tour.
“I was watching her and I was like, ‘This is the day. Get it out early,’” Jessica said with a laugh about the first time Nelly beat her at the season opener in the Bahamas.