A large number of teenagers have won professional golf tournaments, particularly in the women’s game. Lydia Ko was 17 years, 9 months, 9 days when she became World No 1. As a teenager, she won two Majors in addition to 12 other events on the LPGA tour, four co-sanctioned events by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour (now known as the WPGA Tour of Australasia), and one further win on the ALPG.
Lydia Ko holds the record for the youngest winner of the LPGA tour from when, aged 15 years, 4 months, 3 days old, she won the 2012 Canadian Women’s Open. She had also become the youngest winner on the Ladies European Tour when she won the 2013 New Zealand Open as an amateur aged 15 years, nine months and 17 days. But this record was broken by Atthaya Thitikul when she won the Thailand Championship by two shots aged 14 years, 4 months and 19 days.
