Nelly Korda posted a flashback photo on social media from a day that’s impossible forget. While there were many highs in 2024, Korda’s time in Seattle was an extraordinary low. One day after a shocking second-round 81 left Korda in tears at the KPMG Women’s PGA, she was bit by a dog the next day while at a coffee shop.
The incident forced the world No. 1 to withdraw from the Ladies European Tour’s Aramco Team Series event at the Centurion Club in London, a tournament she’d won the year prior by four strokes.
Korda didn’t share any photos at the time, other than to say that she was bitten on her thigh.
Interestingly, Korda was one of three LPGA players who suffered dog bites in 2024. European Solheim Cup captain Anna Nordqvist was bitten while walking on a beach in Thailand early last year. American Alison Lee, the hottest player on tour at the end of the 2023 season, was bit by her boyfriend’s rescue dog, a black Pomeranian aptly named Bear, at the end of January. The ordeal landed Lee in the hospital where she ultimately required surgery to get rid of the infection.
The injury forced Lee to withdraw from the Aramco Saudi Ladies International, where she’d just won in the fall, as well as the Honda LPGA Thailand.
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