DALY CITY, Calif. – This won’t count as Lydia Ko’s first major championship victory, but it sure felt like it should.
With Lake Merced offering a brutish test that played a lot like a U.S. Women’s Open, with a strong, deep field to beat, Ko won a war of attrition Sunday at the Swinging Skirts Classic.
She was the last woman standing with long shadows falling over a long, hard day.
While Ko won’t go into the record books as the youngest woman to win a major championship claiming this title, she had to beat the youngest woman ever to win a major.