Jessica and Nelly Korda: The ‘built-in best buddies’ taking the golfing world by storm
Playing on a professional golf tour can be a lonely place for players, traveling all over the globe with often very little time spent at home.
But for sisters Jessica and Nelly Korda, they have a “built-in best buddy” who comes with them to keep them company – each other – as they travel to events far and wide.
The two are both winners on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour and often find themselves battling one another near the end of tournaments.
“We’ve always said it’s like a built-in best buddy,” Nelly told CNN’s Living Golf. “An automatic dinner buddy.
“Because life gets pretty lonely out here, traveling destination to destination. So it’s fun to have someone in the same hotel and have automatic practice rounds together, too. So it’s a lot of fun and it definitely makes life a lot easier as well.”
Jessica admits that given they’ve grown up and there is only five years between them, it’s “really cool” that they are still “genuinely do like each other.”
“We are best friends and there’s nothing I don’t share with her,” she said.
“And then it’s just so nice, too, when we were standing in line at Avis the other day and the line was like an hour long and just standing there by yourself stinks, but you have somebody else, so you can talk to someone and have fun and just be normal together. So I think that part is really fun for us.”
