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Lydia Ko enjoyed a greatly improved second-round performance at the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida.
On Friday, Lydia Ko was fed up with golf.
After shooting a two-for-74 error at the season-ending LPGA event in Naples, Florida, the New Zealand golfer felt she needed to get away for a moment.
“Yesterday I had enough of my game and my golf and I told him [caddie] the [Luark] and my mom, I’m going to leave here, and I went and ordered food for five people and it was like having so much, “said Ko.
But when he returned to Tiburon Golf Club for the second round of the CME Group Tour Championship on Saturday, he arrived with a different mindset.
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“Like today, I just came in saying, I’m going to try to play my best with a lot of confidence, and I did.”
Ko shot a brilliant seven-under-65 to improve a whopping 48 spots, going from 59th place to a two-way tie for 11th place.
He made seven birdies, five in the last nine, to be five under par after two rounds, just four shots behind leader Jin Young Ko.
“I got off to a good start,” he said. “You know, having a lot of birdie chances I think was really key.
“Even though it was getting a bit windy early in the day, I created a lot of good birdie opportunities, so I think it’s a lot less stressful.
“Whereas if you’re trying to put on makeup, it wears you out pretty quickly.”
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Ko won the CME Group Tour Championship in 2014 and holds the 18-hole record of 62. The 23-year-old said her previous success at the event gave her the belief that she could bounce back from Friday’s terrible start.
“I was talking about it yesterday and I thought, man, now I’m like three times; that’s like 13 shots worse [than the record].
“But whenever you go back to a field where you know you played well, and I usually feel like every day there is always a player or some players who end up going down quite a bit, so it gives you a bit of hope deep down inside. your mind.
“But really today when I was going out I just wanted to play the best golf I could and not really think about my position and all that. I think that definitely helped, and I was able to do quite well. “
