Jessica Korda Talks Difficulty of Golf While Pregnant

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00:00It's so difficult sometimes to give yourself a break and let yourself rest and that timing

00:05you're talking about with pregnancy. I mean, it's really difficult. And I imagine too,

00:12with players that have played on the LPGA Tour that get pregnant and continue to play,

00:18how in the world are they able to do that? What are the challenges that they're facing?

00:24And are there any added benefits like being pregnant? Do you pick up a couple of yards?

00:28I'm just generally curious because technically you gain more weight. It's like, well, you're

00:33putting more mass behind the ball. Could you hit it further? I don't know. No, you literally don't.

00:38Everybody that all of my friends that have played while they were pregnant literally lose so much

00:44distance because you lose so much speed because your core disappears. Just because you're adding

00:49a little bit of mass. You're just rotating. Oh, total rotating. I went and pitched a couple of

00:56times when I was pregnant. And it got to a point where my club was hitting my belly because I'm not

01:02used to having a belly. But my putting got so much better because I was so connected. There was no

01:08separation. And I was like, oh, this is like cheating. I love this. So I actually practiced

01:14my putting a decent amount. But most of my friends that go out and play, I mean, they get a lot of

01:19treatment. Make sure that everything's in line. You definitely don't practice as much

01:25a lot of snacks out on the golf course. And they just you just don't hit it as far. I think

01:31for me, the most impressive is when they come back quite quickly after they've had their babies.

01:37Because as parents, you know that those kids aren't sleeping and you're going out there to play.

01:43And they're mostly solo parenting, right? Because like the husbands have to be at home to work. So

01:47maybe they have a parent with them or a nanny or whatever. But if your baby cries like you're up,

01:54doesn't matter if you're the room over or not. As a mom, you have this like your body gets hot

02:00and like you just feel like, oh, my God, you're not sleeping. So I don't know how they do it

02:06when they go out and play. And these, you know, the babies are so small. I think that's the most

02:11impressive, impressive part about it, because you have to function at a very high level and

02:15your concentration has to be high and your stamina and all this stuff. And you're exhausted.

02:21I mean, are you allowed to take like a medical when you get pregnant on the LPGA tour?

02:27We have maternity now. So my status is protected till he's two years old.

02:33You don't get paid or anything. It's just your status is frozen.