Lydia Ko has demonstrated her golfing Midas touch once more, lifting the Women's British Open title at St Andrews just a fortnight after striking gold at the Olympics in another landmark day for New Zealand sport.
The Kiwi maestro reckoned it felt like a surreal "Cinderella-like" tale as she headed an extraordinary leaderboard at the home of golf on Sunday, with the first six places all occupied by the players who have ascended to the world No.1 spot during their careers.
But not even the current holder of that accolade, Nelly Korda, could match the cool quality under pressure of the serene 27-year-old Ko, who captured her third major with a superb, curling seven-foot birdie at the storied final hole of the Old Course that left her pursuers too much to do.
