Jessica Korda has had the opportunity to watch her younger sister, Nelly Korda’s soaring trajectory in golf, from the very beginning to the present day. This makes Jessica a more than qualified voice in assessing what it’s like to compete against Nelly, and her opinion is that it’s “brutal.”
The eldest of the Korda sisters appeared on The Smylie Show podcast, hosted by former PGA Tour player Smylie Kaufman. Among the topics discussed was how competitive Nelly Korda can be, and Jessica responded with several anecdotes.
One of the stories Jessica Korda shared took place when Nelly was just a junior golfer. Here’s how she told it:
“This one girl showed up in like the same outfit or same shoes or something [than Nelly] and it upset Nelly so bad that she went out and was just like ‘I’m going to beat you’ like ‘you’re going down’. [It was] not match play but Nelly took it as like a match play thing and won the tournament just because she had that like motivation.” [46:44 – 47:08]
