WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Olympic champion and Ladies’s Open winner Lydia Ko says latest success hasn’t modified her thoughts about retiring from skilled golf earlier than she turns 30.
The 27-year-old Ko informed Radio New Zealand that her victories in Paris and at St. Andrews wouldn’t affect her long-held plan exit on high and pursue different pursuits.
“I do know for a truth I am in all probability by no means taking part in previous 30,” the New Zealander stated. “What has occurred in the previous few weeks would not change my timeline. … I wish to depart the sport whereas I am nonetheless taking part in effectively.”
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Nonetheless, the South Korea-born Kiwi stated she would seek the advice of household earlier than reaching any remaining choice.
Lately married, Ko stated golf is now not the one factor in her life. She additionally famous that she’s a “canine mother.”
“To know that golf would not full me,” she stated, “golf, it is simply a part of me, however that is not me as an entire.”
In January 2012, at age 14, Ko grew to become at the moment the youngest participant male or feminine to win an expert event when she received the ladies’s New South Wales Open in Australia.
Final yr was considered one of her hardest in skilled golf — she did not win any LPGA tournaments and no majors, although she received the profitable Saudi Women Worldwide and the Grant Thornton Invitational blended groups event with Australian Jason Day.
Her Olympic success after beforehand profitable silver and bronze medals marked the top of a troublesome interval, which she had largely endured in silence.
“I am undoubtedly the kind the place I type of sit on my emotions and all that and never at all times tremendous vocal about … what I am going by way of,” Ko stated. “However my household has at all times been there for me, and particularly my sister.”
