Great Britain and Ireland has retained the Astor Trophy after managing a hard fought win over Canada on the final day at the Fairhaven Golf Club in Lytham St Annes. The home team, who had to beat the last placed Canadian team to win the Astor Trophy for a record seventh time, trailed 2-0 after ...
Lydia has kept her amazing year going by equaling the course record with a three under 69 in the final round of the Charles Tour Muriwai Open. She was too consistent for Auckland professional Phillis Meti in the wind and won the women’s title by three shots continuing an incredible run. “Winning every tournament is ...
The IOG team will be heavily represented next week at the first Charles Tour event of the year, Muriwai. The 4 round event is the first of 5 this year and enables the amateurs to fight it out with the pros in a strokeplay event. The event will start next Thursday the 12th and run ...
It’s all change at the top of the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking with New Zealand’s Lydia Ko taking over top spot from Japan’s Mitsuki Katahira. Ko becomes world number one following victory in the New Zealand Women’s Stroke Play Championship. The 13-year-old was a run-away winner by nine shots over compatriot and world number ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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