Lydia KO won the HSBC Women’s World Cup for the first time in 11 efforts.
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Lydia Did she do something she would never have done before Sunday.
reigning the golden Olympic medals And Aig Women’s Open Champion has reached as much as anyone in women’s golf over the last decade, as she already won her place in the Hall of Fame last year to 27 years old. But like Tiger Woods on Riviera, sometimes it’s the simple events of the regular season, like the HSBC Women’s World Championship, which extinguishes the biggest stars of the game.
But no longer for KO.
Starting the day with a lead with a blow to Charley Hull in that it was billed as an epic flap with the last round with Jeno Thiticul just a stroke behind, ko made three in a row in the nine forward to withdraw from the field. She ended up with a 69 in Sentosa Golf Club of Singapor and a 13 under the overall result to win her 23rd LPGA title with four strokes on Thiticul and Ayaka Furue.
“You know, I dreamed last night I won, but then I woke up and I was like,” Dang, it’s not true yet. “But I’ve just wanted to focus on my game,” KO said. “Of course this is called the Major of Asia, to add the main Asia to my big collection is really cute.”
KO finally crossed the line in her 11th test at the event.
“I think I’ve been to the last group (here) a few times,” she said. “I remember one of the worst was that we hit our car at 18 and we were in the 18th hole, and they exploded the horn because of the storms, and none of us in the group would win. This was a very strange experience, knowing that you have a hole and you are the last group there, and the winner is already a lot.
“But because I had that experience, I didn’t feel very young, but there were many people and I got all the support they were giving me. I had some really weak rounds here. So I knew I knew the golf course really well, and I think it played in my favor;
At the time he finished the direction of the three direct birds, it was already four clear from the thitikul, but kicked a blow to 12, leaving Thiticul inch closer.
Seduce
The spread decreased to three when he faced a 40 pedestrian for Birdie in Par-3 15. The point was so long that he started walking behind when the ball was halfway in the hole as if trying to score it quickly and exit the road.
But as the ball began to slow down and break down, it simply grabbed the lower edge and rolled into the cup for a Birdie-2 impossible to push the lead back to four. Ko turned back to Caddy Paul Cormack, laughing as the pair went for a top five.
“My big goal was only for two putt. I honestly didn’t think it was coming in until it was introduced,” Ko said. “These things, when those things happen, you think. Oh, maybe it’s – maybe it will be my time to win the event.”
Ko said she did not want to take ahead of herself knowing that the following hole was a PAR-5 accessible, but long make-up was a help after she admitted that a two-point was not automatic.
“But to kill it, it’s almost like a 1 1/2-single rhythm for me,” she said.
The first victory of KO from the end of its late three-year-old tear last summer that included the Olympics, Open and Croger Championship Queen City.
She had four victories in total in 2024, which made her agree with not much to try to try with a big continuation in 2025. KO has previously stated that she intends to retire with 30 but It has not kept set in that time term in recent months.
“I just came to peace with her that if I have a good year, you know it’s great,” she said. “But I’m not trying to testify to anyone else else, and who means, you know, I had a great year and I can have even better.
“Of course we have a long season ahead. But this is my first time winning in the spring, the shaking of Asia. So it’s definitely nice to win a new event for me. “
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