FOR LYDIA KO, BEING 18 isn't much different than 17 in at least one respect. She wins golf tournaments.
On Sunday, two days after celebrating her 18th birthday, Ko beat Morgan Pressel on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff for a repeat victory in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at Lake Merced Golf Club. Ko canned a 5-foot birdie putt after Pressel missed from slightly farther away.
We've seen this before. As LPGA.com reported, five of Ko's seven LPGA wins have been in come-from-behind fashion.
''At the start of the day, I didn't know how it was going to go,'' Ko said.