{"id":30108,"date":"2015-03-01T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ko-rolls-to-4-shot-win-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T05:46:00","slug":"ko-rolls-to-4-shot-win-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ko-rolls-to-4-shot-win-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko rolls to 4-shot win in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch, New Zealand (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; World No. 1 Lydia Ko cruised to a 4-stroke win at the ISPS Handa New Zealand Women&#8217;s Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in her homeland, Ko closed with a 1-under 71 to post 14-under-par 202. She fired a course-record 11-under 61 in Saturday&#8217;s second round to take control of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ko got off to a quick start with birdies at one and two. After three straight pars, she moved to 16-under as she birdied the par-4 sixth. Ko faltered to a double-bogey on the eighth and she dropped another stroke on the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Around the turn, Ko got back into red figures with a birdie on the 10th. She got to minus-15 thanks to a birdie at the 12th. Ko stumbled to a bogey at 17, but she parred the last to win by four.<\/p>\n<p>Amateur Hannah Green closed with a 4-under 68 to grab second place at minus-10. Nanna Koerstz Madsen (71) ended alone in third at 9-under 207.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Allen (73) and Marianne Skarpnord (72) shared fourth minus-8. Amelia Lewis (71), Marta Sanz (71), Pamela Prestwell (73) and Charley Hull (75) tied for sixth at 7-under-par 209.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch, New Zealand (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; World No. 1 Lydia Ko cruised to a 4-stroke win at the ISPS Handa New Zealand Women&#8217;s Open on Sunday. Playing in her homeland, Ko closed with a 1-under 71 to post 14-under-par 202. She fired a course-record 11-under 61 in Saturday&#8217;s second round to take control of the tournament. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}