Teenage golfers Hull and Ko ready for British Open

If Park triumphs at Turnberry, she will join Juli Inkster and Karrie Webb in seventh on the all-time list and be tied for most wins among active players.

Martin has little on the CV this year to suggest a repeat victory is on the cards, but the same held true last year before she landed her one and only LPGA Tour title to date in style.

Ko no longer is No. 1 in the world.

The South Korean golfer claimed the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for the third-consecutive year for her sixth Major title and is tied for ninth with Pat Bradley, Betsy King, Patty Sheehan and Kathy Whitworth in the All-Time Major Winners list. She had to pull out of the final 2014 major, the Evian Championship in France, but she had a splint inserted eight months ago and now she manages to play with just a strapping on the left thumb.

Teenage stars Charley Hull and Lydia Ko secured a significant boost ahead of this week’s Women’s British Open at Turnberry.

Henderson, who turned pro in December, was granted an exemption into the British Women’s Open by the Championship Committee based on her “impressive professional debut”.

England’s Holly Clyburn ended two shots back in third on two under, while world number two Lydia Ko from New Zealand, Klara Spilkova from the Czech Republic and England’s Hannah Burke shared fourth on one under.

McIlroy was 22 when he set the U.S. Open scoring record at Congressional.

“There is no better feeling than coming down the wire and contending with these guys”. “In the last month, everybody has cheered for me and everybody was happy about it and everybody was excited to see that event, my achievement”.

The victory was Day’s second on the PGA Tour this season, after winning the Farmers Insurance Open in February, and his fourth overall. It speaks to her ability – an efficient swing, reliable putter and remarkable calm – that she already is being asked about when she will finally win a major.

Stacy Lewis was 26 when she won her first major, which might seem old by today’s standards except that Lewis is a throwback.

They were eventually put on the last flight north so the American and her caddie, Travis Wilson, jumped in a rental auto to go the hour long journey to collect them.

As soon as the Ricoh Women’s British Open is over, work will start in earnest on significant changes to many holes, including the famous stretch around the turn by the lighthouse, which will look very different when The Open next visits.

In fact, it is not the LPGA Tour which runs the British major but the Ladies Golf Union, based in St Andrews, although its official statement on the necessity for the event to remain at Turnberry was on the same “misgivings” lines.

That’s about where Ko is now. Her game is trending in the right direction again now, though, and she could be a serious factor this week.

“I’m definitely a lot more solid all around in my game”, she said. “Even one would be wonderful”.