BELLEAIR, Florida – Nelly Korda’s new line of Nike shoes launches later this month, but one superstar already has a pair in hand. Before Korda got to the first tee on Wednesday at Pelican Golf Club, she gifted Caitlin Clark a pair of her Nike Free signature line.

"She did ask me if they're going to make her golf better and I was like, guaranteed,” said Korda, who returns to action this week at The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican, where she’s a three-time winner. Clark, a Gainbridge ambassador, is playing in the event's Wednesday pro-am for a second straight year.

Growing up, Korda said, her role models in tennis all wore Nike.

“At grand slams, Maria Sharapova came out in her dress kit. You had Roger Federer, Nadal. We watched tennis a lot in our household, so I had tennis pl

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