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 ...
New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko (igolf) has finished runner-up in the Australian Junior Masters golf tournament at Perth, Western Australia. Institute of Golf’s Ko, 13, shot a final round two-under par 70 to finish on even par 288 for the tournament, two shots behind winner Thidapa Suwannapura from Thailand at The Vines course. Lydia‘s struggle ...
Defending champions Korea produced a white hot display to run away with the Queen Sirikit Cup Asia Pacific women’s amateur teams golf championship title in Hamilton. Two shots behind New Zealand overnight, Korea produced form for a final round of eight-under-par 136 to swamp the 12-nation field at Hamilton Golf Club. Korea were spurred to ...
Hosts New Zealand will take a two shot lead going into the final round of the Queen Sirikit Cup Asia Pacific golf championship in Hamilton tomorrow. After team captain Zoe Brake (igolf) led the way in the first round on Wednesday, the young superstars Cecilia Cho and Lydia Ko (igolf) stepped up in the second ...
Exciting Korean-born teenagers will make their senior international golfing debut for New Zealand in next month’s Queen Sirikit Cup in Hamilton. Cecilia Cho, 15, and Lydia Ko, 12, will join 18-year-old Zoe Brake in a new-look New Zealand team to contest the annual Asia Pacific women’s team championship which has attracted 12 teams so far ...
She may be an amateur and only 12-years-old, but New Zealand’s Lydia Ko representing igolf produced an amazing four rounds of golf that had seasoned veterans shaking their heads in disbelief at her total of 284 and a tie for seventh at the Pegasus New Zealand Women’s Open at Pegasus Town near Christchurch. With conditions ...
Sarah Kemp has never led into the final round of a professional golf tournament before, but the 24-year-old Australian is keenly awaiting the challenge in the final round of the women’s New Zealand Open tomorrow, even if she is being stalked by one of the legends of the game in England’s Laura Davies. After a ...
The battle for the 2010 South Island Strokeplay proved a tight affair with national representative Zoe Brake producing a stunning birdie on the final hole to edge out 2008 winner Caroline Bon and Christchurch’s Sunwoo Bea by one shot. Brake, the current New Zealand Strokeplay champion, shared the lead going down the final hole with ...
Mike Hendry carded -1 71 on a tough scoring day in the 3rd round of the NZPGA Championship, held at Clearwater today. Hendry who has been the Institute of Golf’s leading money winner and was the winner of the NZPGA OOM for 2009 started his campaign off with a even par 72 then 74 and ...
22 January 2010 Institute of Golf elite golfer Lydia Ko celebrated her new kiwi citizenship in style when she dominated the 54-hole North Island Strokeplay Championships in Taupo today. The brilliant 12 year old Ko or ‘Knock Out’ as she is known to her peers, defended the title she won last year, firing a final ...
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