S.F. Examiner: Persistent Ko repeats as Skirts champ

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

DALY CITY — This kid’s got it, big-time, the game, the composure, the success. She’s No. 1 in the LPGA rankings, and she’s only 18. As of four days ago. Lydia Ko already has been called the Tiger Woods of women’s golf, a 5-foot-tall giant from New Zealand who hits her woods a mile and her putts into the cup.

Two years they’ve held the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at Lake Merced Golf Club. Two years Ko has won. A year ago with a birdie on 18 to hold off Stacy Lewis. This time with a birdie on 18 to win a sudden-death playoff over Morgan Pressel that lasted two holes.

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The Sports Xchange: Ko, 17, earns first LPGA win as a pro

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

DALY CITY, Calif. — She had been the best women's amateur golfer in the world for 130 weeks when Lydia Ko, then 16, turned pro last October. Some wondered about the future. 

They can stop wondering.

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The Sports Xchange: Ko, Lewis push each other into Skirts lead

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

DALY CITY, Calif. — One, Lydia Ko, just 17, is supposed to be the future of women's golf. The other, Stacy Lewis, 29, is very much the present. 

Together, which is how they've been grouped through three rounds and will be today in the fourth, they're giving the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic an enthusiastic one-two punch. 

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