TEENAGER LYDIA KO SCORES SECOND

LPGA TOUR WIN OF THE YEAR

Lydia Ko poses with the trophy after winning the Marathon Classic

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Lydia Ko secured her second LPGA tournament victory of the year by winning the Marathon Classic by one shot in Sylvania, Ohio.

Ko and Ryu So-yeon were tied on 14 under with one hole to play, but the 17-year-old New Zealander claimed victory at Highland Meadows Golf Club when she birdied the 18th to card a final-round 66 for a 15-under-par final total or 269 which her opponent could not match.
"I hit the ball well and gave myself a lot of opportunities," said Ko who collected a finanical reward of $210,000
Lydia is the youngest player in LPGA history to reach $1 million in earnings.
“I don’t really think about money when I’m out here,” she said. “When they give [me] the cheque I go, ‘Oh, it’s $210,000.’”
“The way Lydia figures, she earned $150,” Dave Hackenberg writes in the Toledo Blade. “The rest goes into an account managed by her mother. Ko gets an allowance, i.e. pocket money.”

Ryu saw her eight-foot birdie effort at the 18th pull just right of the cup, leaving the South Korean dejected.
"Absolutely I'm disappointed I missed (that) birdie putt," she said. "Sometimes if I get something lucky, then I get something that is unlucky. I just accept it and let it go."
American Cristie Kerr was third, three shots adrift of the tournament-winning total on 12 under, while Malaysia's Kelly Tan, Katherine Kirk of Australia and South Africa's overnight leader Lee-Anne Pace were joint fourth a further shot back.
Mo Martin, winner of the Ricoh Women's British Open with an eagle at the very last hole, achieved a top 10 finish with a 69 for 274 and a share of seventh place. She earned another $32,044
On the same 274 mark was Kent-born Australian Lindsey Wright
American Laura Diaz, who has not won on the LPGA Tour for 12 years but raised hopes of ending that long sequence with a first-round 62, found her scores rising every round after that. She made the top 20, but only just in T18, and earned $15,586
England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff was the best-placed Briton, but could only manage a joint-60th place finish on one under par 283 after a final-round 68.
The Yorkshire-born player earned $3,401.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
269 Lydia Ko (NZ) 67 67 70 65 ($210,000)
270 So Yeon Ryu (S Korea) 68 69 68 67 ($128,000)
272 Cristie Kerr (USA) 70 67 68 67 ($93,905)

SELECTED TOTALS
274 Mo Martin (USA) 67 71 67 69, Lindsey Wright (Australia) 67 70 69 68 (T7) ($32,044)
277 Laura Diaz (USA) 62 69 71 75 (T18) ($15,586)
278 Stacy Lewis (USA) 70 70 68 70 (T25) ($11,950)
283 Jodi Ewart Shadoff (England) 71 71 73 68 (T60) ($3,401).

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