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Lydia Ko

Lydia Ko
— Golfer —
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Ko at the 2016 LPGA in Kingsmill
Personal information
Full name Bo-Gyung "Lydia" Ko
Nickname Lyds
Born (1997-04-24) 24 April 1997 (age 19)
Seoul, South Korea
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality  New Zealand
Residence North Harbour, New Zealand
Career
College Korea University
Turned professional 2013
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour
Professional wins 19
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 14
Ladies European Tour 5
LPGA of Korea Tour 1
ALPG Tour 5
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 2)
ANA Inspiration Won: 2016
Women's PGA C'ship 2nd: 2016
U.S. Women's Open T3: 2016
Women's British Open T3: 2015
Evian Championship Won: 2015
Achievements and awards
Mark H. McCormack Medal 2011, 2012, 2013
Halberg Supreme Award 2013
New Zealand
Sportswoman of the Year
2013, 2014, 2015
LPGA Rookie of the Year 2014
LPGA Player of the Year 2015
LPGA Tour
Money Winner
2015
Best Female Golfer
ESPY Award
2015, 2016
Race to the CME Globe 2014, 2015
GWAA Female
Player of the Year
2015
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Golf
Lydia Ko
Hangul 리디아 고
Hanja 리디아 高
Revised Romanization Ridia Go
McCune–Reischauer Ridia Ko
Ko Bo-Gyung
Hangul 고보경
Hanja 高寶璟
Revised Romanization Go Bogyeong
McCune–Reischauer Ko Po-gyŏng

Lydia Ko (born 24 April 1997) is a Korean-born New Zealand professional golfer who became the No. 1 ranked woman professional golfer on 2 February 2015 at 17 years 9 months 8 days of age, making her the youngest player of either gender to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf. She is the current No. 1 golfer. Upon winning The Evian Championship in France on the 13 September 2015, she became the youngest woman, at age 18 years, 4 months and 20 days, to win a major championship. Her closing round of 63 was a record lowest final round in the history of women's golf majors. On 3 April 2016, she won the ANA Inspiration, where she also became the youngest player to win two women's major championships. Since turning professional in 2014, Ko has career winnings of $7,341,477 as of 31 October 2016. Additionally, she is the first LPGA Tour player to win at least $2,000,000 in each of her first three full seasons on Tour.

She had been the top-ranked woman amateur golfer in the world for 130 weeks when she announced she was turning professional on 23 October 2013. She became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event and youngest person ever to win an LPGA Tour event. In August 2013, she became the only amateur to win two LPGA Tour events. As an amateur she never missed a cut in 25 professional tournaments, and by September 2013 had risen to fifth in the Women's World Golf Rankings in only 23 professional tournaments. Ko played her first LPGA Tour event on 9 February 2012 (14 years, 9 months, 16 days) and made the cut in her first 53 consecutive LPGA Tour events through 4 June 2015 (18 years, 1 month, 11 days) until she missed the cut at the 2015 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Since that lone missed cut, Ko has made the last 36 consecutive Tour events and counting (as of 28 November 2016).

On 23 April 2014, one day before her 17th birthday, Ko was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The same month she advanced to world No. 2 in the Rolex Rankings when she won the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. It should also be noted that Lydia would go on to win the 2015 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic as well, marking the second time she defended a title but her first as a professional.


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