August 10, 2024 • 6 mins
Golfer Lydia Ko is an Olympic champion - winning the women's competition by two-strokes at Le Golf National.
The Kiwi's fired a one-under 71 in the final round to finish ten-under overall, which included a 46-foot putt on the seventh hole.
The result sees Ko complete the trifecta of medals after winning silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo.
Ko joined Piney to discuss her victory.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Lydia Coe, the teenage sensation who has been a household
name here in New Zealand for well over a decade.
There's two parts here for gold the boy would she love?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A birdie?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Co puts through and it's down a golden glow for
Lydia Comb. Runner up in Rio, two back in Tokyo
and at top of the podium in Paris. The fairy
tale is complete. Lydia Co is an Olympic champion.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Indeed, she is Lydia Coe's one Olympic gold in the
women's golf at LA Golf National, simultaneously sacuring entry into
the LPGA's Hall of Fame. She fired at one of
the past seventy one in her final round, sinking that
birdie on the eighteenth to finish ten under overall for
a two shot win. It completes, of course, the trifecta
of medals after Lydia Co won silver in Rio and
(01:13):
bronze in Tokyo. Lydia Coe's with us with a gold
medal around her neck. Congratulations, Lydia, How do you reflect
on your day?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah? You know, I think I stayed really patient today.
I was nervous, and I knew going into the day
that I was going to be nervous, But I stuck
to the same routines as any other day and tried
to take a lot of deep breaths. And I've been
doing a lot of good work with my coaches, and
I felt like like all those training and all those
(01:45):
moments were were you know, I guess working, and like
I was able to, you know, prove to myself that
I could do it for this moment. So it's honestly
so cool that all, you know, all of the hard work,
not only just for myself but from my team is
like peed off and honestly paid off at the biggest
(02:06):
event in my home tail.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Indeed, Well, you had that tricky moment on eighteen. You
had to get it over the water, you know, with
not much room to play with and certainly not much
room on the scoreboard. What was your mental process as
you as you played your approach to the eighteenth green?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean I heard I wasn't the best contact
off the T shirt, but I knew being at the
bear Way it was crucial, and you know, I worked
through the numbers patiently with mc Kertie Paul and having
that which was having a nice way to kind of
approach the green, but I didn't want it to be greedy.
(02:43):
But at the same time, just like focus, focus on
what I've got to do, and just know that it's
never over until the end, so just put one percent
effort in until that board drops.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And going back to the thirteenth, you had that double bogie,
which which sets you back a little bit. How did
you recover from that? What was the mental process behind that?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean I actually it didn't hit like a
bad shot for it to go in the water, So
I think in ways like because I knew obviously I
made no mistake, I didn't like take it to the
head right away, and you know, with fourteen being a
part of five, I knew that it was like where
(03:27):
I could potentially make a broody and kind of come
back and find my momentum again. And even though I didn't,
I just stayed patient and just know that, hey, there's
still holes left, and just got to focus on what's
in front of me and not what happened, not what
has already happened.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, I saw a really cool quote from you in
one of your post round interviews when you talked about
a quote you'd heard from American gymnast Simone Biles about
it being up to you to write your own conclusion,
the own conclusion to your story. Is that a quote
that's kind of set in your mind this whole time?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I saw her documentary and it said and she said,
I get to write my own ending, And that's what
I tried to embrace today. I didn't want, you know,
somebody else playing bad or good to dictate how I
was approaching it. So I just wanted to focus on
me and made sure that I got the job done.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
As you're playing the funnel round to the orny a round,
are you aware of the score board as you're going around?
Were you aware of how close those behind you were today?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I mean there's a lot of scoreboards, so it's hard
to like miss it. So I knew what the situation was.
So I think hitting quality iron shots. I'm fifteen and sixteen,
I knew was going to be the most important factors.
Where you know, I was going to take like big
numbers out of the way, so and you know, I
had I hold two good three footers for par on
(04:52):
those two holes to kind of you know, reset myself
and get ready for seventeen and eighteen. So yeah, I
would have preferred a little bit more of a cushion
going down the last, but no, eighteen being a part five,
I wanted to just stick to my game plan and
you know, just take it one shot at a time
(05:12):
and to better finish with the Birdie was. It really
couldn't have been any better.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So a third Olympic medal for you now one of
each color of course, silver, Rio, bronze, Tokyo, now gold
here in Paris. Can you can you put into context
with everything else you have achieved in your golf in
Korea where your Olympic medals sit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, you know, it means a lot, you know, to
be able to represent museum and to do it at
the Olympics three times. I'm very proud to call myself
a three time Olympian and now a three time Olympic
medalists and to collect both all all colors of the
of the medal. It's it's on a c cereal And yeah,
(05:51):
you know, I I think when I lost in the
playoff in Tokyo, I wished I had, you know, one silver.
But you know, maybe it was a golfing gods way
of saying, hey, get ready for gold in Paris.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah. Well, whoever was making these decisions certainly got it
right today. And just to finish, in the context of
everything you've done as a golfer across your pro career,
where does this rank, this gold medal?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I think everyone is special in its own way. You know,
my bronze and silver medal, they are just as up
there as any of my other wins, so it's kind
of hard to compare that. But for now, this is,
you know, it feels like the biggest moment.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
In my career.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Wonderful. Thank you for joining us, Lydia really appreciate it
and you're packed schedule. Lydia Coe gold medalist and the
Women's golf for gold of silver and a bronze for
her Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk d BE weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Lydia Coe, the teenage sensation who has been a household
name here in New Zealand for well over a decade.
There's two parts here for gold the boy would she love?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A birdie?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Co puts through and it's down a golden glow for
Lydia Comb. Runner up in Rio, two back in Tokyo
and at top of the podium in Paris. The fairy
tale is complete. Lydia Co is an Olympic champion.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Indeed, she is Lydia Coe's one Olympic gold in the
women's golf at LA Golf National, simultaneously sacuring entry into
the LPGA's Hall of Fame. She fired at one of
the past seventy one in her final round, sinking that
birdie on the eighteenth to finish ten under overall for
a two shot win. It completes, of course, the trifecta
of medals after Lydia Co won silver in Rio and
(01:13):
bronze in Tokyo. Lydia Coe's with us with a gold
medal around her neck. Congratulations, Lydia, How do you reflect
on your day?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah? You know, I think I stayed really patient today.
I was nervous, and I knew going into the day
that I was going to be nervous, But I stuck
to the same routines as any other day and tried
to take a lot of deep breaths. And I've been
doing a lot of good work with my coaches, and
I felt like like all those training and all those
(01:45):
moments were were you know, I guess working, and like
I was able to, you know, prove to myself that
I could do it for this moment. So it's honestly
so cool that all, you know, all of the hard work,
not only just for myself but from my team is
like peed off and honestly paid off at the biggest
(02:06):
event in my home tail.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Indeed, Well, you had that tricky moment on eighteen. You
had to get it over the water, you know, with
not much room to play with and certainly not much
room on the scoreboard. What was your mental process as
you as you played your approach to the eighteenth green?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean I heard I wasn't the best contact
off the T shirt, but I knew being at the
bear Way it was crucial, and you know, I worked
through the numbers patiently with mc Kertie Paul and having
that which was having a nice way to kind of
approach the green, but I didn't want it to be greedy.
(02:43):
But at the same time, just like focus, focus on
what I've got to do, and just know that it's
never over until the end, so just put one percent
effort in until that board drops.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And going back to the thirteenth, you had that double bogie,
which which sets you back a little bit. How did
you recover from that? What was the mental process behind that?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean I actually it didn't hit like a
bad shot for it to go in the water, So
I think in ways like because I knew obviously I
made no mistake, I didn't like take it to the
head right away, and you know, with fourteen being a
part of five, I knew that it was like where
(03:27):
I could potentially make a broody and kind of come
back and find my momentum again. And even though I didn't,
I just stayed patient and just know that, hey, there's
still holes left, and just got to focus on what's
in front of me and not what happened, not what
has already happened.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, I saw a really cool quote from you in
one of your post round interviews when you talked about
a quote you'd heard from American gymnast Simone Biles about
it being up to you to write your own conclusion,
the own conclusion to your story. Is that a quote
that's kind of set in your mind this whole time?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I saw her documentary and it said and she said,
I get to write my own ending, And that's what
I tried to embrace today. I didn't want, you know,
somebody else playing bad or good to dictate how I
was approaching it. So I just wanted to focus on
me and made sure that I got the job done.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
As you're playing the funnel round to the orny a round,
are you aware of the score board as you're going around?
Were you aware of how close those behind you were today?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I mean there's a lot of scoreboards, so it's hard
to like miss it. So I knew what the situation was.
So I think hitting quality iron shots. I'm fifteen and sixteen,
I knew was going to be the most important factors.
Where you know, I was going to take like big
numbers out of the way, so and you know, I
had I hold two good three footers for par on
(04:52):
those two holes to kind of you know, reset myself
and get ready for seventeen and eighteen. So yeah, I
would have preferred a little bit more of a cushion
going down the last, but no, eighteen being a part five,
I wanted to just stick to my game plan and
you know, just take it one shot at a time
(05:12):
and to better finish with the Birdie was. It really
couldn't have been any better.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So a third Olympic medal for you now one of
each color of course, silver, Rio, bronze, Tokyo, now gold
here in Paris. Can you can you put into context
with everything else you have achieved in your golf in
Korea where your Olympic medals sit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, you know, it means a lot, you know, to
be able to represent museum and to do it at
the Olympics three times. I'm very proud to call myself
a three time Olympian and now a three time Olympic
medalists and to collect both all all colors of the
of the medal. It's it's on a c cereal And yeah,
(05:51):
you know, I I think when I lost in the
playoff in Tokyo, I wished I had, you know, one silver.
But you know, maybe it was a golfing gods way
of saying, hey, get ready for gold in Paris.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah. Well, whoever was making these decisions certainly got it
right today. And just to finish, in the context of
everything you've done as a golfer across your pro career,
where does this rank, this gold medal?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I think everyone is special in its own way. You know,
my bronze and silver medal, they are just as up
there as any of my other wins, so it's kind
of hard to compare that. But for now, this is,
you know, it feels like the biggest moment.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
In my career.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Wonderful. Thank you for joining us, Lydia really appreciate it
and you're packed schedule. Lydia Coe gold medalist and the
Women's golf for gold of silver and a bronze for
her Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk d BE weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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