Lydia Ko Age, Bio, Native, Dating or Single, Hard work & Net worth

While many people struggle to cope with life and career at a young age, Lydia Ko is one such personality who has already gained a peak status at age 22. She is a professional golfer who gained no position in women’s professional golf. She became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event and the youngest ever to win an LPGA Tour event.

Already a star, Ko was named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014. There’s a lot to know about Lydia’s life, including her net worth and personal life, so if you’re one of her fans, read the whole article.

Korean Native

Lydia Ko was born as Bo-Gyung ”Lydia” Ko on April 24, 1997, in Seoul, South Korea. She was born to Korean parents, golf fanatics father Ko Gil-Hong and mother Hyeon Bong-sook, who moved to New Zealand when she was four years old. Her interest in golf grew by the time she reached age five after her golfer aunt introduced her to the sport. At eight, she started competing and winning in the North Island women’s championship at under-19 division junior golf tournaments.

Ultimately Lydia started getting noticed due to her playing ability. In 2011, at age 13, Ko became the first golfer to pull off the Aussie-Kiwi stroke play double, winning both the Australian Women’s Stroke Play and New Zealand Women’s Stroke Play titles.

Apart from playing golf, she pursued her studies and attended Mairangi bay primary. Later she enrolled in Pinehurst school in Albany, New Zealand. She joined a professional golf tour during school and took correspondence classes with Pinehurst.

Selfless Ko

Despite having the chance to earn money, Lydia decided to pause her career and focus on her studies. Currently, at 22, she wants to complete her studies before returning to professional golf.

Her college principal Sherida Penman is proud of her student and expressed her feeling toward Lydia in her own words:

“We’re so pleased for her – she’s just a great person and is such a wonderful role model for all sports. Her dedication and commitment – to practise and practise and practise – but she’s so modest and humble. You would never know what she’s done when she’s walking around school.”

Ko is already a star but does not want to get the hype now and wants to focus on her studies. Ko wanted to study at Stanford, a top golfing University reviewed by her idol Tiger Woods.

Dating or Single?

Lydia is currently single and focused on her studies and career as a golfer. Although having the no one golfer rank, there is no rumor of her dating anyone until 2020. Currently, 22 years old Ko is giving all her time to her studies after achieving no one position during the 2015 and 2016 seasons.

Unlike other sports stars who flaunt their life on social media, Ko’s Instagram is filled with pictures of her spending time with colleagues and family. She can be seen with boys, but after investigating in the comment section, we came to know them to be merely friends. That summons Lydia to be currently busy improving her career since her rank has fallen below 40th position as of 2020.

Net Worth-$15 million

Lydia Ko accumulated a net worth of $15 million from her career as a golfer. She earned this fortune as a winning amount from golf events worldwide. She has a career winning of $10,031,335 as of 2020. Additionally, she is the first LPGA Tour player to win at least $2,000,000 in her first three seasons. Likewise, she earned around $504,000 in 2018, the same year she ranked no 1.

Furthermore, Ko took home $320,000 for winning the Medihead championship. Also, she had $12.6 million of net worth when she was ranked $18th on the all-time list. She earns around $100,000 on average from each tournament. Moreover, she signed a five-year contract with PXG golf clubs worth $ 14 million. Frank Nobilo is also a New Zealander golfer.