The Lydia Ko legend continues to grow. Is it possible to be a legend at seventeen? If so no one can better claim legend status than the diminutive Ko who won again this past weekend.
Ko won the New Zealand Women’s Open for her tenth professional victory. She had won here in 2013 back in her “old” amateur days.
She also won here in style, setting a course record in the third round with an historic 61. Critics may claim that the competition wasn’t world class but you still have to make the shots and the course record proves that Ko still had some serious game. 
While the world’s top women played in Thailand, Ko opted to stay home in New Zealand and give her country’s open a boost.
She could have competed with Stacy Lewis, Yani Tseng and winner Amy Yang in Thailand but wanted to make it a double. She won in her neighborhood last week at the Women’s Australian Open.
So, she’s not only talented, cute, honest, polite and humble she’s loyal too. Legends are made of such qualities.
This gives the teenager ten professional wins at seventeen year of age and if there is a more impressive story in golf right now I can’t see it.
Let Rory McIlroy win The Masters, earn the career grand slam and we’ll debate it but right now the story is Ko, the world’s youngest ever number one player in the world.
Ko normally doesn’t get too excited on or off the course but afterwards sounded almost giddy at her accomplishment.
“The more W’s the better. I think I had a really good (offseason) break, which got me fresh going into this year.
“I tied second in my first week, tied seventh the week after then won my last two events. So this is even better than I would ever have imagined. It’s just great to have won the two Opens back to back.”
Ko’s ten wins are now more than LPGA stars Michelle Wie and Lexi Thompson combined total of nine.
She’s number one in the world, the player to beat no matter where she plays and still only seventeen.
A legend in the making.
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