KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Player Profile

from April 2023 Tom Tom

Letter From Bryan Nicholson, PGA Director of Golf

Who’s Coming to Sahalee in 2024?

This month’s featured player needs very little introduction to the Sahalee membership. Currently ranked as the current World #1 Golfer, Lydia Ko, has simply been a prodigy from the very beginning of her career With 19 LPGA Tour victories, and 2 majors, Ko has been in a league of her own from the beginning of her career. Most can remember the “Battle of the Titans” between her and eventual Champion, Brooke Henderson in the 2016 Women’s PGA Championship here at Sahalee. Ko lost to Henderson on the first playoff hole after the two players tied after 72 holes.

Now, Ko is the top ranked female golfer in the world for the second time in her career, and remarkable, she first achieved the top billing in February 2015 at only 17 years old, making her the youngest player of either gender to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf.

Ko has enjoyed much success from an early age holding many youngest accolades on the LPGA Tour. Until 2017, she is the youngest ever (age 15) to win an LPGA Tour event. In August 2013, she became the only amateur to win two LPGA Tour events. Upon winning The Evian Championship in France she became the youngest woman, at age 18 years, 4 months to win a major championship Her closing round of 63 was a record lowest final round in the history of women's golf majors, but she then later broke her own record with a 62 at the 2021 ANA Inspiration.

Remarkably, in 2014, as a 16-year-old teenager, Ko was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential people in the world. Ko has also been named among the Top 25 athletes and influencers in all of women’s sports Ko is a two-time Olympic medalist competing in both the 2016, and 2020 summer games, representing her home Country of New Zealand

Last Season, Ko won the CME Group Tour Championship and collecting its $2 million first-place prize, completing the LPGA Tour season with three wins, the LPGA Player of the Year award for the second time in her career, the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average, and was the 2022 leading money winner. We will look forward to welcoming Lydia Ko back to the High Heavenly Ground in June, 2024!

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