Fifteen days after winning Olympic gold at Paris 2024 and being inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, New Zealander Lydia Ko clinched her third major on Sunday by winning the British Open, the fifth and final major of the season and contested from Thursday on the legendary ‘Old Course’ of the Scottish course of Saint Andrews.
Ko, 27 years old and originally from South Korea, finished the tournament with a total of 281 strokes (7 under par), two less than the defending champion, American Lilia Vu; the world number one, North American Nelly Korda, Chinese Ruoning Yin and South Korean Jiyai Shin, who shared second place.
The New Zealander finished the tournament with his best round of the weekend, 69 strokes (-3), with four birdies and one blank. She sealed the win with a birdie on the final hole to end the playoff option where Lilia Vu, world number 2, battled to the finish and finished in the quartet of runners-up.
Ko, twelfth in the world rankings at the start of the week, signed the third major of his career and the first since eight years ago, when in 2016 he won the Chevron Championship. Before, in 2015, he won the Evian Championship, his first Grand Slam.
It was the 29th title of her career and the 21st in an LPGA Tour tournament.
Among the Spaniards, the best was rookie Julia López, who finished with a +3 overall after winning the field for the first time this Sunday with a 71 (-1) for a 291 total.
Carlota Ciganda finished +4 and Marta Martín and Nuria Iturrioz finished +7.
Source: La Verdad
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