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Lydia Ko adds Women's Open to Paris gold
Lydia Ko completed a fairytale fortnight by adding the AIG Women’s Open title at St Andrews to her Olympic gold medal from Paris.
The New Zealander started the final round in a share of fourth but made three birdies over a flawless first 14 holes to challenge for the title, which boiled down to a thrilling finale between Ko, Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu tied at the top of the leaderboard on six under par.
Ko took the clubhouse lead with a brilliant birdie on the 18th, but defending champion Vu was on her heels right to the end as Korda fell short. Vu needed a birdie to force a playoff, but ran up a bogey five. Ko’s third major title caps off a fantastic couple of weeks after she took Olympic gold earlier this month.
Speaking at the trophy presentation, world No 12 Ko said: “It’s pretty surreal. Winning the gold medal in Paris a couple of weeks ago, it was almost too good to be true.”
“Obviously heading into the weekend, I said ‘how is it possible for me to win the AIG Women’s Open?’ I’ve had the most Cinderella-like story this past few weeks. To be holding this trophy right now, I can’t believe it and it’s obviously very special this year with my family being here this week too.” PA Media
