Lydia Ko to donate prize money to Nepal earthquake relief effort
Lydia Ko has golf skills that reach way beyond her 18 years, and now she's shown a massive amount of heart to match.
The LPGA world No. 1, who just defended her title at the LPGA Swinging Skirts competition, announced on Wednesday that she has pledged to donate the prize money she'll earn at the Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout in Irving this week to help the Nepal earthquake relief effort.
"Obviously, it was very unfortunate when I got to hear that there was an earthquake in Nepal," Ko said via GolfChannel.com. "We had a big one in New Zealand, too, a couple years ago, and it affected a lot of people. It was in Christchurch, where we call it the Garden City. It still has the name, but there is still evidence of what has happened there. Natural disasters you can't do much about. Sometimes, it's hard to be prepared for it, so I thought, those people there, nice people and very innocent, so I wanted to give this tournament's earnings and donate it to them."
Just another reason South Korean-born New Zealander Ko, who just turned 18 last Friday, is No. 1.
