The youngest NZ Golf Champion Lydia Ko

Richard Lee won the title in 1992 Men's Amateur at the Otago Golf Club. Sharon Ahn (North Shore) had previously won the NZ Strokeplay title in 2005. However, earlier in the week Ko became the first woman to win both the New Zealand Strokeplay and Austalian Strokeplay champion golf clubs for sale in the same year with her TaylorMade R9 driver, and the youngest winner in both events, she won the NZ event by nine shots.
Lydia Ko is the youngest New Zealand Amateur golf champion, aged 14 years and two days beating previous youngest Larissa Eruera (Aviation) in 2008 who was 14 years and nine months. She becomes the first woman golfer from the North Shore Golf Club to win Callaway RAZR Hawk Driver the New Zealand Amateur title in a history. The North Harbour teenager, who turned 14 on Sunday, overcame two-time champion and close friend Cecilia Cho 4 and 3 at the Russley Golf Club with superb golf in the final 18 holes with Taylormade r11 driver.
The women's match with both Ko (14) and Cho (16) chasing history attracted the biggest gallery in cool conditions at Christchurch and R11 Driver on sale early in the second round the North Shore golfer took the ascendancy.
After making a fine birdie on the 18th to get the match back to all square, she birdied the opening hole (19th) to go 1up as the battle of the ages lived up to its hype. Standing on the 7th tee, Ko was 1up and delivered one of her best shots of the tournament to a foot of the hole on the demanding par three. The following hole, Cho drove into the rough and made bogey gifting Ko a three up advantage.
She never looked back and it was a crucial 20 foot par saves on the 14th that made her dormy 4 heading to the par 15th. Ko left her birdie putt two feet below the hole and when Cho missed her 15 foot putt by TaylorMade R9 Irons  for birdie  Lydia Ko was confirmed as Ping G20 Driver the youngest winner in the tournament's history."It means a lot to win the New Zealand Amateur title and being the youngest makes it even better," said Ko. "It was my goal at the start of the week to win the NZ Strokeplay and NZ Amateur titles and I am really proud to achieve it.Ko and Cho shared a hug and there were a few tears from Cho as she came so close to becoming the first woman in more than a century to win the title 3 times in a row. It was a superb run of golf from the Auckland number one. But Ko is used to writing her own history and she achieved quite a few records.Let's look forward more her news.