Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on Lydia Ko winning the women's British Open

Another victory for Lydia Ko - the Kiwi golfer's won her third major, her first since 2016.

Ko triumphed by two strokes at the British Open after finishing at seven-under par overall at St Andrews. 

Sportstalk host Jason Pine says this is a 'spectacular' end to Lydia Ko's career as she looks to call it a day.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine Sports Talk hosts with me right now, Hey Piney, Hello,
Heather Good, is Lydia Coe? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Amazing? Amazing talk about talk about the twilight of her
career being quite spectacular. Olympic gold medal and then entry
into the LPGA's Hall of Fame, and now she's won
the Open Championship. I mean, it's hard enough to win
one tournament, let alone two massive tournaments like this back
to back. I mean, she hasn't won a major since
twenty sixteen. That shows how hard it is to win

(00:26):
one of these things. But to win the Olympic event
and the Open Championship and her numbers, my god, she
shot six bogies the whole four rounds and only two
in her final thirty six holes. That is consistency personified.
She shouldn't retire, She should carry on and keep going.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, it does feel like the retirement thing has very
much been put on the back burner by her raise.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I don't know. I mean, she's she's been pretty
pretty solid in her responses to these questions that you know,
she is getting towards the end. She's on the back nine,
she says sometimes, but and she does she's on record
of saying, look, she wants to start a family and
have a life outside of golf. I mean she's been
she's had a golf club in her hand since she
was four years old. What is she now? Twenty seven?
It's a long time to be playing golf and doing

(01:12):
only that. But the way she's going maybe I don't
know either. May be the fact that she is about
to call it a day has taken all the weight
off her shoulders and she's just become this even more
extraordinary player, incredible to all.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Not that I think that you're an expert on the
reproductive body of the female, but I would have imagined
that golf is one of those sports that actually having
a baby is not going to muck around with too much.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I think so? I mean I feel like if you're
going to be doing something like I don't know, weightlifting,
that you could just weigh yourself halfway through. Like that's
a problematic after having a baby, yes, but you know,
like the golf, I think that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I mean, who knows. Look, the time is on
her side.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
What I'm saying is I back her to come back
from a baby. Do you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I know exactly what you mean. And what a way
for a family to see the world travel around, you know,
watching mum play goal and look and this looked like
she's twenty seven years old. It's so young, so young.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's a very good point. What happened to Hamish Kur though.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that was funny, wasn't it. He couldn't quite repeat
what he did in Paris ninth in the in the
high jump at the latest Diamond League meet in Poland.
But a bloke who did repeat and in fact went
better than what he did was Amen duplantis this incredible
pole vaulter who has cleared now six meters twenty six
that's another centimeter onto his world record. You know. Now

(02:33):
he has the ten highest pole vaults in history. Ye're
all him. He's got the ten highest absolute freak and
the three thousand meter record was broken to by about
three seconds by jakub Ingebrits. And so yeah, so clearly
the Olympics, you know, come gone and these guys just
carry on.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, thank you very much. Pine. He really appreciated Jason Pine.
Sports stalkcosts. He'll be back seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
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