Lydia Ko ended 2023 with victory and start 2024 in the same way with victory in the opening HGV Tournament of Champions. A look at Lydia Ko: What’s In The Bag.
Ko teamed up with Day in the mixed pairs Grant Thornton Invitational in December 2023 with their 26-under total enough for a one-shot victory in the inaugural event.
That was Ko’s second win of 2023 after she lifted the Saudi Ladies International for the second time in her career in February at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club.
The New Zealand began 2024 in the best possible way with a two-shot victory over Alexa Pano in the HGV Tournament of Champions, which kicks off the LPGA Tour.
Ko carded a final round of two-under par at Lake Nona to finish on 14-under par.
Ko now has 28 career wins across all tours with 20 of them on the LPGA Tour.
Ko’s first LPGA Tour win came in the CN Canadian Women’s Open in 2012. She defended the title in 2013 and went on to win the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, Marathon Classic and CME Group Tour Championship in 2014.
Victories in the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, Canadian Pacific Women’s Open and Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship in 2015 where joined by her first major victory in The Evian Championship in the same year.
In 2016, Ko won the Kia Classic, ANA Inspiration, which was her second major, Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and Marathon Classic, but endured a lean period with the 2018 LPGA Mediheal Championship her only title between 2017-2020.
She returned to winning ways in the 2021 Lotte Championship and lifted the titles at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio, BMW Ladies Championship and CME Group Tour Championship in 2022.
Victory in the latter was her second win the tour ending season, having also won the title in 2014. It also meant she was crowned CME Globe winner for the third time after 2014, 2015 and 2022.
Ko has also claimed titles on the ALPG Tour in the 2012, Bing Lee Samsung Women’s NSW Open and 2013, 2015 and 2016 ISPS Handa New Zealand Women’s Open, and the Ladies European Tour‘s Aramco Saudi Ladies International in 2021 and 2022.
Ko is ranked 12 in the Rolex Rankings for the World Women’s Golf Standings.
What’s In The Bag Lydia Ko (at the HGV Tournament of Champions in January 2024)
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees) (Read the Review)
Woods: Ping G430 Max (3-wood, 15 degrees & 5-wood, 18 degrees) (Read the Review)
Hybrids: Ping G430 (22 degrees) (Read the Review)
Irons: Ping i230 (5-iron to 7-iron) (Read the Review) & Ping Blueprint S (8-iron to 9-iron) (Read the Review)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 (46 degrees, 48 degrees, 54 degrees & 58 degrees) (Read the Review)
Putter: Scotty Cameron TG6
Ball: Titleist ProV1x (Read the Review)
What’s In The Bag Lydia Ko (at the Grant Thornton Invitational in December 2023)
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Woods: Ping G430 Max (3-wood, 15 degrees & 5-wood, 18 degrees)
Hybrids: Ping G430 (22 degrees)
Irons: Ping i230 (5-iron to 7-iron) & Ping Blueprint S (8-iron to 9-iron)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 (46 degrees, 48 degrees, 54 degrees & 58 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron TG6
Ball: Titleist ProV1x
What’s In The Bag Lydia Ko (at the Saudi Ladies International in February 2023)
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (9 degrees) (Read the Review)
Woods: Titleist TSi2 (3-wood, 15 degrees) & PXG 0341 X GEN2 (5-wood, 18 degrees)
Hybrids: Ping G425 (22 degrees) (Read the Review)
Irons: Titleist T200 (5-iron) (Read the Review), Proto Concept C07 (6-iron) & Proto Concept C05 (7-iron to 9-iron)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 (46 degrees, 48 degrees, 54 degrees & 58 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS
Ball: Titleist ProV1x
What’s In The Bag Lydia Ko (at the CME Group Tour Championship in November 2022)
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (9 degrees)
Woods: Titleist TSi2 (3-wood, 15 degrees) & PXG 0341 X GEN2 (5-wood, 18 degrees)
Hybrids: Ping G425 (22 degrees)
Irons: Titleist T200 (5-iron), Proto Concept C07 (6-iron) & Proto Concept C05 (7-iron to 9-iron)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 (46 degrees, 48 degrees, 54 degrees & 58 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS
Ball: Titleist ProV1x
What’s In The Bag Lydia Ko (at the BMW Ladies Championship in October 2022)
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (9 degrees)
Woods: Titleist TSi2 (3-wood, 15 degrees) & PXG 0341 X GEN2 (5-wood, 18 degrees)
Hybrids: Ping G425 (22 degrees)
Irons: Titleist T200 (5-iron), Proto Concept C07 (6-iron) & Proto Concept C05 (7-iron to 9-iron)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 (46 degrees, 48 degrees, 54 degrees & 58 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS
Ball: Titleist ProV1x
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