Golf
13 February 2024
New Zealander Lydia Ko has started her new season in style with victory at Florida’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on the LPGA Tour, Mike Hall reports for the UK publication, Golf Monthly.
Ko,…
Golf | ABC News
23 December 2023
New Zealander Lydia Ko and Australia’s Jason Day have won the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational in Florida, the ABC News reports.
Ko, 26, and Day, 36, posted their second-straight round of 6-under-par 66 to finish…
Golf | Sports Illustrated
29 September 2023
There are stellar debut performances, and then there is what Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau, 12, did in the golf tournament at New Zealand’s largest national youth sports competition, Sports Illustrated correspondent Patrick Andres writes.
Teepa-Tarau, who is…
Golf | Associated Press | ESPN
28 September 2023
Aucklander Ryan Fox, 36, overcame a 3-shot deficit and a triple bogey early in the final round at Wentworth in Surrey with six birdies on the back nine – the last one from 6…
Golf | Guardian (The)
17 April 2023
Working alongside Tiger Woods does not afford time to look up and smell the flowers. Woods won 13 of his 15 major titles with Steve Williams as caddie, a run the New Zealander quickly…
Golf | Korea Times (The)
4 December 2022
The Korean-born New Zealander Lydia Ko, 25, has captured her 18th career LPGA Tour title in Korea, rallying from a one-stroke deficit with some methodical golf down the stretch, The Korea Times reports.
Ko, who…
Golf | Reuters
29 November 2022
New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has secured the LPGA’s season-ending title, the tour’s Player of the Year award and a big winner’s cheque with a two-stroke win at the CME Group Tour Championship in…
Golf | Golf
24 November 2021
Since a Monday qualifier in the middle of August in the state of Washington, Golf magazine reports on what has happened to Hamilton-born golfer Steven Alker – six top 10s in a row, when…
Golf | Sky Sports
23 November 2021
A bogey-free 65 in the final round earned a commanding five-shot victory for two-time major champion New Zealander Lydia Ko at the Aramco Saudi Ladies International, earlier this month, Sky Sports reports.
After equalling the…
Golf | Associated Press | ESPN
23 April 2021
No one came close to New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko at last week’s Lotte Championship in Hawaii on the course of the Kapolei Golf Club, the Associated Press reports. Ko torched Club and tournament…
Golf | Golf Australia
28 March 2020
Auckland-born Tania Tare is one of the world’s most recognisable trick-shot artists and has amassed over 300,000 followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Golf Australia reports. In an interview with the sporting publication, Tare…
Golf | CNN
21 September 2018
“It’s already my fifth year on the tour and I feel like I kind of set the bar very high for me at an early age,” New Zealand professional golfer
Golf | Golf Australia
21 May 2018
New Zealander Michael Long, 49, has recorded a dream victory at the recent TX Civil & Logistics Western Australia PGA Championship after equalling the course record at Kalgoorlie Golf Course.
Starting the final day five…
Golf | Reuters
1 May 2018
“A two-year win drought marked by changes in coaches, caddies and clubs ended for Lydia Ko on Sunday as the former world number one closed out victory at the Mediheal…
Golf | ESPN
12 April 2018
Sometimes New Zealander Lydia Ko, 20, likes to imagine the future. More specifically, her professional future. The Auckland-raised golfer talks to ESPN’s Kevin Van Valkenburg about her plans.
Ko thinks about what kind of career…
Golf | Bangkok Post
3 April 2018
Carterton-born “legendary left-hander” Sir Bob Charles, 82, had a “remarkable” golfing career, the Bangkok Post’s Brett Brasier writes in his regular ‘Golf Tips’ column for the newspaper.
“My few words on the great golfers that…
Golf | Golf | Jakarta Post (The)
10 January 2018
New Zealand had been named top golf destination in the Asia Pacific region by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) for the second time.
Held for the first time in 2000, the annual…
Golf | Golf Digest
11 November 2017
Former professional golfer, Auckland-born Frank Nobilo talks with Golf Digest about Twitter trolls, debates with fellow golfer, American Brandel Chamblee and terror in a racecar at 290km/h.
“I go through these little Twitter boycotts,” Nobilo,…
Golf | Golf Digest
7 August 2017
Long-drive competitor and defending world champion New Zealander Phillis Meti, 30, has broken the world record for women’s long drives in Denver with a figure of 371m.
It did appear Meti’s ball made contact with…
Golf | Greenville Sun (The)
19 June 2017
One of the newcomers to this year’s World Long Drive competition was New Zealander Phillis Meti, 30, who was the first female to compete in the Laughlin Memorial Hospital Tennessee Long Drive Shootout.
The field…
General | NZEDGE.com
9 March 2017
The spectacular Millbrook Resort in Queenstown, New Zealand, hosts the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open this week. The biggest event on the New Zealand golfing calendar, the tournament tees off from 9-12…
Golf | Daily Mail
26 January 2017
The world’s top woman golfer New Zealander Lydia Ko, 19, wants her stunning achievements as a teenager to narrow the sport’s huge gap in prize money between men and women, according to the Daily…
Golf | Fiji Times
22 July 2016
Lydia Ko, Danny Lee and Ryan Fox have been chosen to represent New Zealand in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, as reported in the Fiji Times.
“This is a truly proud moment for…
Golf | ESPN
4 July 2016
Sparked by a stretch of four birdies in her first five holes at the NW Arkansas Championship, New Zealand world champion golfer Lydia Ko, 19, opened an early four-shot lead and was rarely challenged…
Golf | ESPN
3 June 2016
Lydia Ko has been ranked 81st in ESPN’s World Fame 100 List. She is the only New Zealander among the Top 100 Most Famous athletes and one of only eight women on the list.
“Ko…
Golf | SB Nation
5 April 2016
“Lydia Ko saved her best for last when she birdied the 72nd hole in Sunday’s ANA Inspiration finale to become the youngest golfer in the modern era to win back-to-back major championships”, writes Emily…
Golf | ESPN | Golf
29 March 2016
New Zealand golfing superstar Lydia Ko won the Kia Classic on Sunday at Aviara, and has reaffirmed her position as the top player in the world heading into the first major championship…
Golf | Golf Channel
18 February 2016
Lydia Ko has won the ISPS Handa New Zealand Women’s Open for the third time “on a remarkable day that began with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rattling Christchurch” and “prevailed playing through what the Ladies…
Golf | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
10 February 2016
Cromwell-born former PGA Tour professional Michael Long said he could not have hit the incredible chip shot that won him this year’s Vic Open if he had another 99 tries.
Long admitted he thought he…
Golf | ESPN | Golf
28 December 2015
Lydia Ko’s impact on the game of golf extends well beyond her years, according to an article in ESPN.
The South Korean-born, New Zealand-bred 18-year-old golfer, is one of the most precocious sports…
Golf | ESPN | Korea Times
17 December 2015
Lydia Ko, 18, might as well be a super hero, according to Korea Times correspondent Brian Han. That’s why Marvel teamed up with ESPN to give the New Zealand golf champion the comic book…
Golf | CNN
1 December 2015
Eighteen-year-old Aucklander Lydia Ko has scooped the US$1 million LPGA Tour jackpot and has been named the women’s LPGA Player of the Year, becoming the youngest in its 49-year history to do so.
Ko retained…
Golf | TIME
5 November 2015
Auckland professional golfer Lydia Ko, 18, has once again made TIME’s annual “30 Most Influential Teens” list.
At the age of 17, this New Zealander became the youngest golfer to be ranked number one in…
Golf | Taipei Times
3 November 2015
New Zealander Lydia Ko, 18, has won the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship and has regained the No. 1 spot in the world rankings, replacing American Nancy Lopez as the youngest player to win 10 events…
Golf | ESPN | Golf
14 September 2015
Lydia Ko made golfing history when she won Sunday’s Evian Championship in France as the youngest winner of a women’s major. The win was her fourth LPGA win of 2015 and the ninth of…
Golf | ESPN
31 August 2015
Lydia Ko has won the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open for the third time and first as a professional, beating American Stacy Lewis with a par on the first hole of a playoff.
The 18-year-old Ko…
Golf | Golf | USA Today
8 July 2015
Rotorua golfer Danny Lee has earned his first PGA Tour win at The Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia in a four-man playoff nearly eight years after becoming a U.S. Amateur champion at age 18.
“I kind of felt…
Golf | ABC News
4 May 2015
Former US Open Champion New Zealander Michael Campbell, 46, is retiring from golf to concentrate on running his golf academy in Malaga, Spain.
Campbell, who won the Open at Pinehurst in 2005, told New Zealand’s…
Golf | Guardian (The)
2 May 2015
New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko is planning to donate all her winnings from this week’s LPGA tournament to the relief effort in quake-hit Nepal.
The winner of this week’s tournament will receive $A 243,400.
The golfing…
Golf | Wall Street Journal (The)
15 April 2015
As a phenomenon so far New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko, 17, is on par with the young Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, according to the Wall Street Journal. Are we on the brink of…
Golf | New York Times (The)
9 April 2015
Few golfers have had better runs than the one that has swept New Zealander Lydia Ko, 17, to the top of the world rankings. She has entered the women’s first major, the ANA Inspiration…
Golf | Golf | SBNation
3 March 2015
Lydia Ko, the 17 year old New Zealand LPGA star sits atop of the golf world with her second straight win of the 2015 season finishing with a 1-under 71 at Clearwater Golf Club…
Golf | Brisbane Times
28 February 2015
Lydia Ko’s search for the right caddie has been an intriguing storyline for the media throughout her short span on the LPGA Tour, but it appears Australian bag man Jason Hamilton, for the foreseeable…
Golf | Reuters
17 November 2014
New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko has become the youngest winner of the LPGA’s Rookie of the Year award in a season in which she has won twice, secured two runner-up finishes, and gained nine…
Golf | Golf | New York Times (The)
15 September 2014
Steve Williams, one of the world’s most famous caddies, talks to the New York Times about his plans to wind down his dream career after being inducted to the Caddie Hall of Fame this…
Golf | Golf Channel | NBC Sports
11 September 2014
After a career that has lasted nearly four decades, New Zealander Steve Williams, 50, has been inducted into the Caddie Hall of Fame by the Western Golf Association.
Williams received a bronze caddie statue as…
Golf | Oregon Live
19 July 2014
Aucklander James Beale has won the 113th Pacific Northwest Men’s Amateur Championship in Washington on the 38th hole, defeating American Cole Madey.
Beale, who last week finished fourth in the Sahalee Players Championship, capped off…
Golf | New York Times (The)
23 June 2014
Professional golfer Lydia Ko, 17, ranked No 3 in the world, has been keeping good company of late, playing a nine-hole practice round at Pinehurst recently with sexagenarian caddie Mike Cowan, who worked for…
Golf | Scotsman (The)
6 June 2014
In a business rife with mediocrity, New Zealand-born commentator Frank Nobilo is one voice worth listening to, writes John Huggan for the Scotsman.
For a decade or so before he made the jump to the…
Golf | CNN | TIME
6 May 2014
Still only 17 years of age, New Zealander Lydia Ko is in her rookie season as a professional – the LPGA waiving their age limit of 18 on account of her talent and maturity…
Golf | Fox Sports | Today Online
17 April 2014
Former US Open champion New Zealander Michael Campbell, 45, who famously defeated Tiger Woods by two strokes to win the 2005 US Open, is co-hosting four studio review shows with FOX Sports in Singapore…
General | Dominion Post (The)
4 February 2014
A New Zealand toddler has just placed third in an international competition for junior golf swings. William Tye, who modelled his golf swing on Tiger Woods after watching a video of the famous athlete,…
Golf | ESPN
30 January 2014
As Lydia Ko, 16, began her rookie year playing as a professional in the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic last week, ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel profiled the world’s No 4-ranked player.
Winner of two…
Golf | ABC News
11 December 2013
After her first win as a professional, kiwi teenager Lydia Ko has moved up two places to number four in the world rankings.
Over the weekend she won the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters US$800,000…
Golf | USA Today
9 December 2013
09 December 2013 – Just a matter of weeks after announcing that she had turned pro, New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has won her first professional title.
The 16-year-old won the Swinging Skirts World Ladies…
Golf | Sunshine Coast Daily
24 October 2013
Queensland Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner Hamilton-born Jim Cusdin, 28, credits a move to Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast for revitalising his golf career. It was somewhat of a risk he says, but…