When Lydia Ko awakened on Sunday morning, she thought she had already gained the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship in Singapore.
“I dreamt final night time that I gained,” Ko mentioned.
“However then I awakened, and I used to be like, dang, it’s not actual but.”
Ko held a one-shot benefit over Charley Hull going into the ultimate spherical, and loads of different stars lurked not too far behind. However Ko, being the hall-of-famer she is, locked in and gained the event by 4 photographs over Ayaka Furue and Jeeno Thitikul.
“I simply needed to give attention to my recreation, and it was a reasonably tight leaderboard,” Ko mentioned.
“There’s been plenty of change all through the previous few days. So simply specializing in me was actually necessary. I began off actually regular, and you realize, didn’t actually put myself in bother that a lot. I feel that was going to be the important thing for in the present day.”
The New Zealander started with 5 straight pars, then rattled off three consecutive birdies on the sixth, seventh, and eighth holes to separate herself from the pack. Her putter was an enormous motive why she ultimately emerged victorious — Ko couldn’t miss on the greens.
A bogey on the eleventh adopted, however she bounced again with birdies on the thirteenth and fifteenth holes, the latter of which got here from about 60 toes away.
By then, the event was all however over as Ko coasted to the end, successful ‘Asia’s main’ for the primary time.
“So as to add Asia main to my main assortment is basically cool,” Ko mentioned.
“General it’s simply been a enjoyable week, and I feel I simply centered so much on myself. I feel that was the massive key on successful this week.”
Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
