Teenaged South Korea-born New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has been hailed as 'Pre-Ko-cious' after she won the Australian Open on Sunday and now eyes the New Zealand Open title.
Ko reinforced her status as the world's best women's golfer with a two-shot victory in Melbourne and has now switched her attention to Christchurch.
Ko's effort has been hailed as 'Pre-Ko-cious' by the Golf Channel in the United States, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The Golf Channel stated that of a child having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual, it pretty much sums up 17-year-old Lydia Ko.
The elite golf magazine labelled her effort as a 'One-derful story: World No 1 Ko wins in Oz'.
The Golf Channel said that while other players had wilted under the pressures of being world number one, Ko seemed oblivious to that.
The victory was Ko's ninth professional victory worldwide and her sixth LPGA title. She turns 18 in April, the report added.