WELLINGTON, New Zealand — – Corridor of Famer Lydia Ko has been made a Dame within the New 12 months’s honors checklist in New Zealand for her providers to golf.
A damehood is the feminine equal of a knighthood and he or she’s turn into Dame Lydia Ko after receiving one among New Zealand’s highest civil honors on Tuesday.
Ko is the youngest New Zealander at age 27 to obtain the glory.
The Korean-born Ko received the ladies’s match at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics and likewise in 2024 grew to become the thirty fifth and youngest inductee to the LPGA Corridor of Fame. Ko received a bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and a silver medal at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Ko was described in a quotation accompanying the honors checklist as New Zealand’s most profitable golfer with 30 skilled victories, together with three majors.
In 2012 Ko grew to become the youngest participant, male or feminine, to win an expert championship when she received the ladies’s New South Wales Open in Australia aged 14.
A 12 months later, at 15, she grew to become the youngest participant to win an LPGA tour occasion. In February 2015, aged 17 years, 9 months and 9 days, she grew to become the youngest participant male or feminine to realize the No. 1 world rating.
Ko is predicated in Orlando, Florida.
