{"id":8761,"date":"2025-06-20T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/korda-in-womens-pga-after-aggravating-neck-injuries\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:22:11","slug":"korda-in-womens-pga-after-aggravating-neck-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/korda-in-womens-pga-after-aggravating-neck-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Korda in women’s PGA after aggravating neck injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FRISCO, Texas – Nelly Korda shot a uniform 72 in the opening round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Thursday, three days after the world’s top-ranked athletes exacerbated a neck injury during the practice round.<\/p>\n

Korda said he didn’t feel any pain, but the two-time major champion said he had pain “only a spin” in his neck, and it was difficult to sleep comfortably at night.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, that’s good. Getting better every day, that’s good,” she said. “Whenever I get injured in my neck just because I’m injured last year, it takes a little longer than usual. This year I tweaked it before the round with Aliya (Jutanugaan) in Vegas.<\/p>\n

It was April that Korda skipped two tournaments due to a neck injury during the LPGA Asian swing late last year, losing to Jutanugaan in match play. “Korda said earlier this week that her neck was in a complete spasm after skipping that night’s Champions dinner at the Fields Ranch East Course practice round held at PGA Frisco on Monday.”<\/p>\n

In the first round of the third major of the season, Korda had two birdies and two bogeys. She was four shots from Jeeno Thitikul, the world’s second-largest player in the same group and tournament leader with a 4-under 68.<\/p>\n

“Overall, even Parr is starting out in the majors…it was a little more windy in the morning than I thought. So it was a little tough. Yeah, I’m pretty pleased with the first round on the conditions,” Korda said. “It was pretty windy. It was hot. The heat in Texas definitely needed a blow. I’m very pleased with my position. To be honest, I’ve never really seen a leaderboard.”<\/p>\n

Korda opened with seven consecutive pars, including a 317-yard par-4 seventh hole. Her first pitch from there bouncing off the green edge and rolling down the slope to where she was. Korda hit the next shot two feet, saving par.<\/p>\n

Par 3 8th, Corda’s tee shot set up her first bogey over the green. After the par-5 approach went right and settled next to the temporary structure, she was free to receive relief and she pitched 3 1\/2 feet to create a birdie putt.<\/p>\n

“It’s great to rebound with birdies. I didn’t know where it was going to fall. The grass was like pavement. It was very solid. It was walking a lot,” Korda said. “It’s always good when you’re bouncing off a birdie and getting a fresh start on the next nine holes.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FRISCO, Texas – Nelly Korda shot a uniform 72 in the opening round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Thursday, three days after the world’s top-ranked athletes exacerbated a neck injury during the practice round. Korda said he didn’t feel any pain, but the two-time major champion said he had pain “only a spin” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-8761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}