The former world No. 1 returns to New Zealand, with momentum and returning confidence in her bid to win the McKayson New Zealand Women’s Open in Auckland, where she grew up. Ko’s family moved to North Shore from South Korea when she was 6.
Ko, who makes her American base in Orlando now, speaks often about relishing every chance she gets to return to New Zealand and see friends.
While Ko has won three of the last four New Zealand Women’s Opens, this is the first staging that will be sanctioned as an LPGA event, the first ever LPGA event in New Zealand.