DALY CITY, Calif. – Lydia Ko’s ball striking isn’t honed in this week.
Not yet, anyway.
At day’s end Friday at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, she was 85th in hitting greens in regulation and 79th in driving accuracy.
And yet she is T-5 on the leaderboard.
That says everything about Ko’s short game.
With a scrambling 1-under-par 71 on a difficult, blustery day at Lake Merced Golf Club, Ko fought her way into weekend contention. She’s four shots off the lead in her bid to win her fourth worldwide title this year and to win this event for a third consecutive year.