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Lydia Ko adds Women’s Open title to Olympic gold with victory at St Andrews

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Lydia Ko completed a fairytale fortnight by adding the AIG Women’s Open title at St Andrews to her Olympic gold medal from Paris.

The New Zealander started the final round in a share of fourth but made three birdies over a flawless first 14 holes to challenge for the title, which boiled down to a thrilling finale between Ko, Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu tied at the top of the leaderboard on six under par.

Ko took the clubhouse lead with a brilliant birdie on the 18th, but defending champion Vu was still on her heels right to the end.

Vu needed a birdie to force a play-off, but ran up a bogey five to secure victory for Ko. A third major title caps off a fantastic couple of weeks for Ko after she took Olympic gold earlier this month.

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