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Ko clinches victory and record
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New Zealand’s Lydia Ko became the youngest ever winner of the Srixon Australian Women’s Stroke Play Championship with a play-off victory at Huntingdale Golf Club in Melbourne. The 13 year-old outlasted compatriot Cecilia Cho to win on the second play-off hole with a par after the pair finished the championship level at 6-under par. ...
Clarke breaks course record at Omaha
Institute of Golf professional Dale Clarke set the Omaha Beach Golf Club alight by breaking the course record at the Hawkins Construction Omaha Pro-Am. Clarke shot a stunning second round of 62 on Sunday to lead the event until the final group of golfers finished their rounds. Hastings’s Leighton James consolidated his first round leading ...
Kiwis Dominate in Melbourne
New Zealand’s teenaged tag team of Cecilia Cho and Lydia Ko have scored a double knockout at the Riversdale Cup international women’s amateur golf tournament in Melbourne. Cho, 16 and the reigning Australian strokeplay champion, today won the individual title with ease while fellow Aucklander Ko, 13, was second and together they won the teams ...
World #3 amateur at Institute of Golf
Golfing prodigy Lydia Ko has been rewarded for her recent stellar performances by rising two places to world No.3 in the latest women’s world amateur rankings released today. She lies one place behind compatriot Cecilia Cho, 16, who remains as world No.2. Ko, 13, finished fourth at the New Zealand Women’s Open on Sunday to ...
Ko leads Kiwis to finish 4th in NZ Open
Thirteen year old Lydia Ko showed that last year was no fluke when she finished leading amateur in the top-10 in the Pegasus New Zealand Open. She shot a final round one-under par 71 in the strong winds to finish in a share of fourth place on seven-under par with Europe’s No 3 ranked Melissa ...
Lydia Stuns Golfing World … Again
Lydia Ko has become the first New Zealand golfer to win the trophy as leading amateur in the Handa Australian Women’s Open. The remarkable 13 year old from North Harbour shot a final round two-over 75 to finish on three-under in a share of 12th place in Australia’s flagship professional women’s tournament, co-sanctioned with the ...
Hamish Wins First Pro Am of 2011
A great round of six under par 65 carried Hamish Robertson (igolf) from Taihape to victory in the first pro-am event of the year today, the Quinovic Waikanae Pro-Am. Starting on the 15th hole, Robertson birdied the 16th, made bogey on 17, than added another birdie on 18. He then reeled off five straight threes ...
Chris Rattue’s Article on Lyds in Herald
New Zealand has a golfing tigress on its hands. Lydia Ko, age 13, is already among the most fascinating characters in New Zealand sport. She might become the No 1 woman golfer on the planet at a time when Asian, and particularly Korean-heritage women are dominating. This story has been simmering along for some ...
Lydia Comes So Close in NSW
Thirteen-year-old golfer Lydia Ko who trains at the Institute of Golf was a centimetre away from the chance to create history at the New South Wales Open in Sydney today. The brilliant young North Harbour student just missed her one metre par putt on the final green that would have forced a playoff with Sweden’s ...
PGA tour player Ben Cranes take on things
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