Phenom In The Making?

Phenom within the Making?, Lydia Ko, when defeating Morgan Pressel in overtime on Sunday in San Francisco for her seventh LPGA Tour finish, is swing up numbers that no-one in golf has ever compiled.

And by no one, we tend to mean simply that — not the PGA Tour man of the hour, 2015 Masters champ Jordan Spieth, who’s pretty good; the men’s world No. one and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, no slouch; or the gold commonplace by that all phenoms ar measured, Tiger Woods.

Take a look at some updated fulgurous stats — however don’t commit them to memory since blow blows them up hebdomadally or so:

18 — Age once blow nabbed her eleventh career skilled win with the contest finish over Pressel that was conjointly a prospering defense of her Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic title (Tiger, by comparison, earned his 1st professional W once he was 21; Rory was 20; Spieth, 19)

7 — range of LPGA Tour wins

15 — Age once blow overtook Lexi Thompson to become the youngest player to win associate degree LPGA event (2012 Canadian girls ’s Open)

17 — Age once the South Korean-born New Zealander became the youngest player of either gender to say the highest rung on the globe rankings ladder (Tiger was 21), youngest player to win tyro of the Year honors, and therefore the youngest have in LPGA history

18 -- range of Q&As it took to prove that if this whole golf issue does not calculate, blow contains a future ahead of the camera

29 — range of consecutive sub-par rounds blow tallied, matching Annika Sorenstam’s 2004 incomparable mark

10 — range of consecutive top-10 finishes blow earned from October 2014-March 2015

$1.5 million — Biggest payout in LPGA history, that blow paid when winning the 2014 season-ending CME cluster Tour Championship and inaugural Race to the CME Globe

0 — range of lost cuts in fifty career tour starts as associate degree amateur and a professional

To put that last astounding stat in a different way, as a result of one actually cannot emphasize it enough, blow has vie fifty LPGA events while not. Missing. One. Cut.

The only accomplishment missing from Ko’s resume may be a major championship, however together with her skills and nerves, we've to believe it's solely a matter of your time before she accomplishes that effort. And, of course, blow has nonetheless to prove she will maintain such an implausible pace over the long run as Woods has worn out his outstanding career.

But if you’re still not convinced geographical area blow deserves your acclaim, then you’re clearly not taking note.
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