Fifteen days after winning Olympic gold at Paris 2024 and entering the World Golf Hall of FameNew Zealand’s Lydia Ko achieved her third major this Sunday by winning the British Open, the fifth and last major title of the season and played in Le Mans from Thursday.The ‘Old Course’ Gendry of the Scottish Curriculum of St Andrews.
Lydia Ko, 27, of South Korean descent, finished the tournament with a total of 281 strokes (7 under par).Two fewer than American Lilia Wu, who defends the title; 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 a blank.. She sealed the win with a birdie on the last hole to eliminate the option of playing a playoff because the one who fought to the end was world No. 2 Lilia Wu and who finished in the quartet of runners-up.
The third ‘major’ of his career
Ko began the week ranked twelfth in the world rankings, thus marking the third major of her career And for the first time since eight years ago, when he won the Chevron Championship in 2016. Before that, in 2015, he won the Evian Championship, his first major competition.
This is the twenty-nineth title of his career.l Twenty-first in LPGA Tour-related tournaments,
The best amateur in Spanish was Julia López, who finished with +3 in total after beating the field for the first time this Sunday with a 71 (-1) for a total of 291. Carlota Ciganda finished with +4 and Marta Martín and Nuria Iturrioz finished with +7.
