Golfer Nelly Korda making return from blood clot at U.S. Girls’s Open

Nelly Korda, who has been sidelined since March due to a blood clot in her left arm, will return to aggressive golf at subsequent week’s U.S. Girls’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

Korda, 23, made the announcement on Instagram on Friday, posting a photograph of herself together with her caddie, Jason McDede, and the remark, “See you guys @uswomensopen subsequent week.”

She introduced on April eight that she had undergone surgical procedure for a blood clot in her subclavian vein in her left arm.

“I’m happy to report the process went nicely and the docs have been proud of the end result,” Korda wrote on Twitter. “I’m now house recovering and making ready to start out rehab. I’m wanting ahead to getting again to 100% so I can start training.”

Docs recognized the blood clot in mid-March, after Korda skilled swelling in her arm after a exercise in Ponte Vedra Seaside, Florida. Korda additionally disclosed that she had COVID-19 in mid-January and that the sickness “knocked me off my toes for a while earlier than the start of the LPGA season.”

Korda final competed on the LPGA Tour on Feb. 3, ending 15th on the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony. She completed within the prime 20 in every of her three begins this season, together with tied for fourth on the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions.

A seven-time winner on the LPGA Tour, Korda was a gold medalist on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She gained 4 instances final season, together with capturing her first main title on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.

Earlier this yr, Korda was ranked No. 1 within the Girls’s World Golf Rating for the 26th consecutive week and handed two-time main winner Stacy Lewis for essentially the most time spent at world No. 1 by an American girls’s golfer. She is at present ranked No. 2 behind South Korea’s Jin Young Ko.

Korda and her older sister, Jessica, are two of the LPGA’s hottest gamers. Nelly Korda has greater than $6.2 million in profession earnings.