WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Teenage golf star Lydia Ko has split with the only coach she has had since she took up the sport as a 5-year-old.
Guy Wilson, who has worked with the 16-year-old Ko for 11 years, issued a statement saying he was “incredibly disappointed” the partnership is over. Ko has not publicly commented on the decision.
Ko won five professional tournaments — four as an amateur — while coached by Wilson, who said it had “been an honor to help develop Lydia into the No. 4 golfer in the world.”
Wilson said “when I first met her the golf clubs were taller than she was and she didn’t know the first thing about a driver or a putter but now she has one of the most envied swings in the women’s golf world.”
