Lydia Ko with Three Professional Wins Is Golf’s Newest Superstar

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Published: March 4, 2013

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Lydia Ko is golf’s latest wunderkind from New Zealand. Who is this precocious youngster and why does she warrant such interest?

Ms. Ko at the ripe old age of 15 has won three professional golf tournaments and the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur.

She was born in South Korea, but her family moved to New Zealand when she was quite young. She began playing golf when her mother took her to a golf course when she was just five years old.

Golf fans in America first began hearing about Ko in January, 2012 after she won the Bing Lee/Samsung Women’s NSW Open on the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour. Just 14 years old at the time, she became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tournament.

Ryo Ishikawa was the previous title holder of the youngest person to win a professional golf tournament when he won in Japan at the tender age of 15 years 8 months.

Traveling to North America in early July, 2012 Ko won low amateur honors in the USGA’s U.S. Women’s Open held at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wisconsin. She shot 74-72-79-75 to finish T-39.



With the confidence that she gained playing with the big girls at the U.S. Women’s Open she won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in Cleveland in early August. The Women’s Amateur is all match play and she defeated 18-year-old Jaye Marie Green 3 & 1 in the final match.

Her most magnificent summer did not stop there. She was invited to play in an LPGA Tour event, the CN Canadian Women’s Open in Vancouver. On August 26, her win there made her the youngest winner of an LPGA Tour event. She was 13-under par for the four rounds and beat an elite field that included reigning U.S. Women’s Open Champion, Na Yeon Choi, as well as Inbee Park and Stacy Lewis.

Lexi Thompson had been the youngest to win on the LPGA Tour when she won in September, 2011 at the age of 16 years 11 months...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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