Nelly Korda is not in the field for this year’s JTBC Classic, the LPGA has confirmed. The World No. 2 announced on social media on March 13 that she’d been diagnosed with a blood clot in her arm and that she was at home resting.
“I am currently at home getting treatment to eliminate further risks,” Korda wrote.
Originally scheduled to compete in the JTBC after taking off the Asian swing, Korda last teed it up on the LPGA in early February at the LPGA Drive On Championship.
The deadline to sign up for the Chevron Championship, the year’s first major is late Tuesday afternoon. Korda has finished in the top three of the event the past two seasons. This year marks the final time the event will be held at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.
Korda won four times on the LPGA in 2021 as well as Olympic gold in Tokyo and was named Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America.
The JTBC Classic at Aviara Golf Club in Carlsbad, California, marks the debut of World No. 1 Jin Young Ko on U.S. soil this year. She competed once, at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore and won, before the taking the next two weeks off.
Last year’s wire-to-wire champion at Aviara, Inbee Park, returns to Carlsbad as does Lydia Ko, Minjee Lee, Danielle Kang, Sei Young Kim, Lexi Thompson and Leona Maguire.
