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Lydia Ko (Korean: 고보경, Hanja: 高寶璟, born Bo-kyung Ko, 24 April 1997) is a New Zealand professional golfer who became the No. 1 ranked woman professional golfer on 2 February 2015 at 17 years 9 months 8 days of age, making her the youngest player of either sex to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women's World Golf Rankings )〕 On 13 September 2015, she became the youngest woman, at age , to win a major championship when she won The Evian Championship in France. Her closing round of 63 was a record lowest final round in the history of women's golf majors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2015/09/13/lowest-rounds-womens-major-championship-history-13051/ )〕 She had been the top-ranked woman amateur golfer in the world for 130 weeks〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings )〕 when she announced she was turning professional on 23 October 2013. She became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event and youngest person ever to win an LPGA Tour event. In August 2013, she became the only amateur to win two LPGA Tour events. As an amateur she never missed a cut in 25 professional tournaments,〔 and by September 2013 had risen to fifth in the Women's World Golf Rankings in only 23 professional tournaments.〔 Ko played her first LPGA Tour event on 9 February 2012 (14 years, 9 months, 16 days) and made the cut in her first 53 LPGA Tour events through 4 June 2015 (18 years, 1 month, 11 days). In April 2014, Ko was named as one of ''Time'' magazine's 100 most influential people. The same month she advanced to No 2 woman professional golfer in the world when she won the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women's World Golf Rankings )〕 On 22 November 2015, Ko won the LPGA Rolex Player of the Year Award by a mere two points over Inbee Park, making her the youngest winner in the 49 years of the award. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lydia Ko Clinches 2015 Rolex Player of the Year Award )〕 ==Early life and education== Born in Seoul, South Korea, she emigrated with her family to New Zealand as an infant and gained citizenship at age 12. Ko was educated at Pinehurst School in Albany, New Zealand, and when she joined the tour she took correspondence classes with Pinehurst. Starting in 2015 Ko said she would study psychology extramurally with Korea University, Seoul. The Yonhap news agency reported her as saying "I'll have to listen to what the university says to decide how I will do my studies. I'll have to make sure I submit the required papers and projects as the majority of my classes will be done online." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydia Ko」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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