{"id":311827,"date":"2025-10-17T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311827\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:24:14","slug":"caitlin-clark-injury-annika-pro-am-first-public-event-for-fever-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311827\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark injury, Annika Pro-Am first public event for Fever star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Clark<\/a> is returning to the golf course.<\/p>\n

Tournament officials announced Thursday that the Fever<\/a> star will participate in The ANNIKA Pro-Am<\/a> for the second straight season, joining LPGA players Nelly Korda and Annika Sorenstam at Pelican Golf Couse in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

The event, which is the penultimate LGPA competition of the season and open to the public, is hosted by Sorenstam and sponsored by Gainbridge. One of Clark\u2019s many sponsorships<\/a> includes being a Gainbridge ambassador, which is also the namesake of the Fever’s<\/a> arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an amazing time at The ANNIKA last November and participating in the Pro-Am alongside Nelly Korda and Annika Sorenstam, two of the best in the game,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI\u2019m honored to be an ambassador for a company in Gainbridge that is so committed to elevating women\u2019s sports. I can\u2019t wait to return to Tampa in November to play in the Pro-Am with the best women golfers in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fever star has long been an avid golfer, playing the low-contact sport around Indianapolis and the country in the WNBA offseason. She also participated in the pro-am alongside Korda and Sorenstam in November 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an honor to play in the pro-am with Caitlin last year. The crowds were amazing, and we are excited for her return to The ANNIKA in November,\u201d Sorenstam said. \u201cShe added such a great dynamic to our event, and her passion for golf and competitiveness were fun to witness firsthand. I look forward to having her back and continuing to introduce the great game of golf to the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be the first time Clark plays a sport publicly since July 15, when she suffered a groin injury that, along with a left ankle sprain Aug. 7, ended her season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clark had a bad injury bug, with various injuries limiting the 2024 Rookie of the Year to just 13 games in her second season. She averaged 16.5 points, 5 rebounds and 8.8 assists in 2025.<\/p>\n

While Clark isn\u2019t planning on playing in any offseason leagues like 5-on-5 Athletes Unlimited or 3-on-3 Unrivaled, she is dedicating her offseason to getting back to full strength. She will still get an ample amount of practice preseason, too, as she\u2019s hoping to join USA Basketball for a World Cup qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico in March.<\/p>\n

Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at capeterson@gannett.com or follow her on X at\u00a0@chloepeterson67<\/a>.\u00a0Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our\u00a0Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark is returning to the golf course. Tournament officials announced Thursday that the Fever star will participate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[691,2865,233,2866,2488,1074,1089,1495,1075,1430,2487,2862,234,73763,1077,16327,2213,50,450,1457,1076,1451,62,1458,645,2490,1078,67,132,68,2869,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-311827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-caitlin","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-clark","12":"tag-enabled","13":"tag-exclude","14":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","15":"tag-fever","16":"tag-from","17":"tag-golf","18":"tag-highlights","19":"tag-indiana","20":"tag-indiana-fever","21":"tag-korda","22":"tag-logic","23":"tag-nelly","24":"tag-nelly-korda","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-paywall","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-story","33":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","34":"tag-testing","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-unitedstates","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-womens","39":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115391854492936598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}