It is a 2024 not only to remember, but to frame, for Lydia Ko. The New Zealander, gold medalist this year at the Paris Games (after having won silver in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and bronze in Tokyo), in the United States celebrated the 22nd success (a figure including three Majors) of her career on the LPGA Tour thanks to her feat in the Kroger Queen City Championship.
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In Maineville, in the state of Ohio, the 27-year-old of South Korean origins (she was born in Seoul) won with a score of 265 (67 66 69 63, -23) shots, clearly detaching the Thai Jeeno Thitikul, 2/a with 270 (-18). The exploit earned her $300,000, compared to the $2,569,317 she earned this year, for a total of $19,512,009 earned in her career.
Lydia Ko, results
Aside from the gold in Paris, on the LPGA Tour in 2024 she recorded 3 successes with five other placements in the Top 10. Ready to enter the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, Lydia Ko is among the most important protagonists of the top American women's circuit.
Lydia Ko born April 24, 1997 in Seoul, is a New Zealand golfer of South Korean origin Born in Seoul, she grew up in New Zealand from the age of four. Lydia Ko broke many records for her precocity in golf, becoming among others the youngest golfer to win a professional tournament at the age of 14 on the Australasian Tour and the youngest winner of a tournament on the LPGA Tour with the win of the 2012 Canadian Open.
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An amateur, she turned professional in November 2013. A member of the LPGA Tour since 2014 and named the LPGA's best rookie in her first season, she became world number one in February 2015 until June 2017 when only South Korean Inbee Park interrupted her reign for a few weeks, winning two major tournaments, the Amundi Evian Championship in 2015, the year she was named "LPGA Player of the Year" for the first time, then the ANA Inspiration in 2016.
With no LPGA wins since April 2018, she repeated her success in the 2021 season and then manages the 2022 season to become world number one from November 2022 to April 2023, accumulating 163 weeks in this position in her career, and once again being "LPGA Player of the Year" for the 2022 season.
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Thus, she has a total of twenty-eight professional victories and has not left the world top 10 since March 2021 to today. On Saturday, August 10, 2024, in the 4th round, she won the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Games, Golf - individual.
