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LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Lydia Ko was at home on the west coast when The Open at Birkdale wrapped up two weeks ago. Everywhere she went that Sunday, she asked for Open coverage to be put on so that she could watch fellow Kiwi Ryan Fox. She had it on her phone as she Ubered home from the gym and by the time she walked inside, Fox was on the 18th.
"When I saw that drive, I was like so relieved but like so excited, super pumped," Ko recalled. "I screamed as like I went in. I closed the door and I screamed. I was like, 'Yes!' And my husband ran out and was like, 'What's happening?' Ten seconds later I was just crying."
Ko, 29, relived the moment for the media at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, site of the 50th AIG Women's British Open. She heard on the television that Sir Bob Charles won the British at Royal Lytham in 1963. With Fox winning down the road at Birkdale, perhaps Ko could make it a trio here for the Kiwis here in the north of England.
"It would be cool to channel my inner Foxy, his fearlessness, out there for me these next few days," said Ko, who opened with an even-par 72 on what she considers to the be the toughest Open course she's played. Ko won her British Open title over at the Old Course at St. Andrews two years ago.
To fully understand Ko's emotional reaction to 39-year-old Fox's win, one has to go all the way back to the 2010 World Amateur Team Championship in Argentina, when the LPGA Hall of Famer was 13 years old.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, but he may or may not have tricked me to think my Coke glass was, I thought it was my Coke glass, but it was red wine," she said with a laugh.
"But he's always been the same. We've gone to the last three Olympics together. I'm not sure what his plans are moving forward, but I've just known him for a really long time. Even in junior golf, I was like pretty straight and didn't hit it very far but hit it very straight. He would hit it like offline, but then hit it so far. I had never really played with a golfer like that. He would shoot the easiest 65 while being in the trees. So it felt like a different type of sport for me."
Fox was quick to mention Ko's accomplishments to the media, which didn't surprise her one bit.
That's the friend she's known more than half her life.
Beth Ann Nichols is a senior Golfweek writer covering the LPGA and women's golf.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lydia Ko screamed and cried after fellow Kiwi Ryan Fox won The Open
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"When I saw that drive, I was like so relieved but like so excited, super pumped," Ko recalled. "I screamed as like I went in. I closed the door and I screamed. I was like, 'Yes!' And my husband ran out and was like, 'What's happening?' Ten seconds later I was just crying."
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Ko, 29, relived the moment for the media at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, site of the 50th AIG Women's British Open. She heard on the television that Sir Bob Charles won the British at Royal Lytham in 1963. With Fox winning down the road at Birkdale, perhaps Ko could make it a trio here for the Kiwis here in the north of England.
"It would be cool to channel my inner Foxy, his fearlessness, out there for me these next few days," said Ko, who opened with an even-par 72 on what she considers to the be the toughest Open course she's played. Ko won her British Open title over at the Old Course at St. Andrews two years ago.
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To fully understand Ko's emotional reaction to 39-year-old Fox's win, one has to go all the way back to the 2010 World Amateur Team Championship in Argentina, when the LPGA Hall of Famer was 13 years old.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, but he may or may not have tricked me to think my Coke glass was, I thought it was my Coke glass, but it was red wine," she said with a laugh.
"But he's always been the same. We've gone to the last three Olympics together. I'm not sure what his plans are moving forward, but I've just known him for a really long time. Even in junior golf, I was like pretty straight and didn't hit it very far but hit it very straight. He would hit it like offline, but then hit it so far. I had never really played with a golfer like that. He would shoot the easiest 65 while being in the trees. So it felt like a different type of sport for me."
Fox was quick to mention Ko's accomplishments to the media, which didn't surprise her one bit.
That's the friend she's known more than half her life.
Beth Ann Nichols is a senior Golfweek writer covering the LPGA and women's golf.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lydia Ko screamed and cried after fellow Kiwi Ryan Fox won The Open
Continue reading...
