NAPLES, Fla. — Lydia Ko had just been handed a $1 million bonus for the second consecutive year, and the first thing she thought about buying with those newfound additional riches was a new phone.
She's had a bunch. She keeps dropping them.
"My mom doesn't like it," Ko said. "Phones are expensive."
It's moments like those that serve as the reminder that the New Zealander is only 18. The way she plays, no one believes she's just a teenager. The LPGA's rookie of the year from 2014 was the LPGA's player of the year in 2015, and in golf — or any major U.