RELEASED: 21 Feb 2023 at 04:00
World No. 1 Lydia Ko will be preferred to win today’s Honda LPGA Thailand after her victory at the Saudi Ladies International on Sunday.
The New Zealander invested “excessive” time playing golf with her hubby throughout their honeymoon however it settled in spades as the she started her season with triumph in Saudi Arabia.
Ko won her 2nd Saudi Ladies International title by a stroke from India’s Aditi Ashok, shooting a final-round four-under-par 68 to end up with a 21-under overall at the Royal Greens Golf and Nation Club.
Ko won the Ladies European Trip (LET) occasion at the exact same place 2 years earlier.
” I’m 2 for 2 on this golf course,” stated Ko, who declared the US$ 701,000 winner’s cheque. “Plainly something is choosing me.”
Ko has actually begun the season as she ended up the last one.
In November, the 25-year-old provided herself early wedding event provides as she won the LPGA Trip’s season-ending CME Group Trip Champion in Florida to recover the world No. 1 ranking, while scooping the circuit’s Gamer of the Year award.
It was her last competition before getting married with Chung Jun, the boy of a popular Korean entrepreneur, in her birth place Seoul throughout the off-season.
” I played a great deal of golf, perhaps a bit excessive golf, on my honeymoon,” stated Ko.
” However my hubby enjoys golf which’s something that we can equally do together, so we benefited from that. And really, thanks to him it made my shift into off-season practice a lot much easier.”
Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul was joint 18th on 278.
Ko will look for back-to-back titles at today’s US$ 1.7 million Honda LPGA Thailand to be held at Siam Nation Club in Pattaya.
The 2nd LPGA occasion of the 2023 season tees off on Thursday.
Apart from Ko and Atthaya, other prominent stars in the competition consist of Nelly Korda of the United States, Minjee Lee from Australia, South Koreans Ko Jin-Young and Chun In-Gee and Brooke Henderson of Canada.
Nanna Koerstz Madsen from Denmark will protect the title.
Other Thais in the 16th edition of the LPGA Thailand consist of significant winners Patty Tavatanakit and Ariya Jutanugarn, the only regional gamer to have actually won the competition with her success can be found in 2021, Moriya Jutanugarn, Pajaree Anannarukarn and Pornanong Phatlum. reuters/bangkok post
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