(Reuters) - That a golfer could be under pressure to win a major at the age of 18 has been one of the LPGA Tour's more absurd talking points this season, so Lydia Ko was naturally delighted to torpedo the debate with her victory at the Evian Championship on Sunday.
Barely old enough to toast the win with an alcoholic drink in her home nation New Zealand, Ko's six-stroke cakewalk at Evian-Les-Bains made her the youngest player to clinch one of the LPGA's five major tournaments.
Since winning her first professional event in Australia at the age of 14, Ko's extraordinary talent has never been in doubt and in February she became the youngest world number one in just her second full season as a professional.