LANCASTER, Pa. — Lydia Ko has accomplished plenty in her short competitive golf career and made the game look easy along the way.
The 18-year-old from New Zealand has collected nine worldwide victories in the last three seasons as an amateur and a professional. She even climbed to No. 1 in the rankings earlier this year — at 17, the youngest man or woman to accomplish the feat.
This season alone, Ko has two wins, two seconds, a third, and three other top-10 finishes.
So, it's no surprise that all that success has lifted Ko among the players to watch when the U.