Lydia Ko Quotes

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she’s your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it’s also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you’re able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

It’s never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

If I make a bogey or three putt I’m on fire inside. But it’s not like you’re going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I’m pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

I’ve played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn’t easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I’m the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I’d love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.