Nelly Korda Updates: Confirms Next Schedule on LPGA After a Long Break

Nelly Korda is surely one of the finest pros on the LPGA Tour!  After a long wait, she recently tasted victory on the second playoff hole during the final round of the LPGA Drive-On Championship at Bradenton Country Club on January 28, 2024, in Florida. Her ninth victory on the Tour, and first since 2022 The ANNIKA was surely special.

This 25-year-old grabbed the winner’s title beating Lydia Ko. She then went on a long break and decided to sit out on a few events on the LPGA Tour that followed afterward. But now she is returning to continue her journey of triumph., but where?

It’s official. Nelly Korda is back!!

The world No. 2, Nelly Korda, has reshared an Instagram post, originally posted by her putting instructor and coach, Eric Dietrich, confirming the fact that she will be back in the game at the DIO Implant LA Open, LPGA. The tournament will take place from March 21–24, 2024, at Palos Verdes Golf Club, with 144 players competing for a heavy purse of $2,000,000, up by $250,000 from the last edition. 

Korda and Eric Dietrich first began working together last year when she was looking forward to achieve the three-peat at The ANNIKA. She was grinding on the practice green with the putting instructor, and working on her form. “Felt like I just have a plan now, or I have tendencies that I know about that I can always go into a drill and kind of work on those tendencies,” said Korda after starting with Dietrich.

To welcome the champ back, the putting coach shared a few glimpses on Instagram mentioning, ‘’With awesome improvements in a short period 🔥 lookg forward to watching her make a lot of putts!! 

The 25-year-old has troubled by her lower back for a long time. In 2020, the Florida native missed nine weeks on the Tour because of the backpain. In 2023 too, she withdrew from the Mizuho Open because of a back injury. The golfer has always power through her injuries, and has come back stronger. 

Her long break after her first win of the 2024 season gave her just what she needed after a winless 2023, a little push! Interestingly, the event Nelly is going to participate in has received a new name from this year!

DIO Implant has been renamed to honor Se Ri Pak

Last year, the Palos Verdes event, the DIO Implant LA Open, was renamed the 2024 Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship. The seventh edition of the event has been renamed to honor Se Ri Pak, perhaps the most famous South Korean golfer of all time. Additionally, LPGA pioneer Se Ri Pak will return to the Tour in 2024, joining Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie West as tournament hosts.

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The 46-year-old player retired from the Tour in 2016 and had a career that completely transformed women’s golf. As a female golfer, Pak won two majors in 1998, including the U.S. Women’s Open at Blackwolf Run, which inspired generations of South Koreans to follow in her footsteps. She won 25 times on the LPGA and amassed 39 titles worldwide.

With Korda riding high on her triumph, will she get the crown for this event too? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below. 

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