What The Heck Happened To Lydia Ko? 

What are your thoughts on Lydia Ko?

I really like and enjoy Lydia- she’s newly married and probably wants to start a family- leave her alone- she has entertained us for yrs- now let her enjoy her life- you rock Lydia

Lydia is not only a fantastic golfer, she is also a sweet, wonderful person with a very strong character and resolve. You cannot stay at the top continuously, you will take dips, but if you're of Lydia's quality, you will be back, sooner or later. And Lydia will be back, sooner rather than later.

Her game is fine. The competition just got better.

What load of crap, Lydia is still world number 15, and recently won two tournaments in a row. Ledbetter didn’t help, but she cured what he did

She is great! I question the intellectual underpinnings of this content.

I have played for over 65 years. Lydia Ko had the best swing mechanics and timing I've ever seen. When she lost her "baby fat" look, it was incredible how far and accurate she was hitting the ball with such an effortless swing - all timing and managing the laws of physics.

She is awesome... Hall of Famer for sure

This is ridiculous lol. She’s the 15th best female golfer in the world right now and only 27 years old. She’s got a good shot at winning any Major Tournament. If anything videos like this are part of the pressure put on her.

She's one win away from qualifying for the Hall of Fame.

Don’t blame her parents. David leadbetter messed up her swing just like he messed up Michelle wie. David messed up so many good golfers and always blame player’s parents. Stupid A swing totally messed up Michelle and Lydia golf career.

Just leave her alone, she is world class, in my book, if she never wins again I will be fine with that, she is great to watch, winning not winning I don't care, she will always be our 'Onion"

Great New Zealander Great Golf player and she's just beginning very scary

So much similarity between Michelle Wie and Lydia Ko: 1)Both were golf prodigy in early teens. 2)Both have parents who put strictly tight control on them. 3)Both then hired David Leadbetter as coach. 4)Then in their twenties both took a nose dive in their career as if they were badly burned out. Coincidence?

Kiwi here,heard her on the radio the other day, big yankee accent,i thought, they got her and americanized her and now they will take her down.

One thing that made her worse was the same as Michelle Wei, concentrating on her appearance, rather than her golf techniques! I was stunned to see her transformation into a much skinnier player and more fashionable young woman. It’s too much changes in a short period of time, which took away her concentration in golf. It’s either her parents and / or the coach who made her changed into a difference person. Hence, she maybe unhappy or unwillingly doing something that she did not want to do. I saw her swings changed and putting strokes altered. That’s the death sentence of golfing. Not sure how or if she can turn back the clock and go back to her natural way o playing golf. Her parents must be waiting for her to make tons of money and provide then luxurious life styles. That’s terrible for a talented young woman. Hope she can bounce back soon!

Lydio Ko is doing just fine. She is not athletic. Her driving distance is short, she already made what she could possible achieve. You should make a story if Lucy Li and Rose Zhang.

Her parents did fine. She’s a lovely person and they guided her to all that early success. Leadbetter seems more culpable. This video is a little behind, as there’s buzz that she may retire soon. Whatever she does I hope she’s happy and content.

I always felt that even if you are a youth phenom, you should still play NCAA golf. It gives you a chance to develop and grind both mentally and physically during that critical age of 17-21 at a high level without the eyes of the world on you. Tiger credits some of his success to his years playing at Stanford.

I predicated her fall when I saw her chewing gum while playing at the 2016 Olympics. Breathing is a huge part of physical and mental concentration. Surprised her mentors didn't realize this.

Everyone has a metal time span. The earlier and younger you have success the younger you are when you lose some of the grind. There are few exceptions.

her form has nose dived since she got married.so it looks like she is not putting in the practice hours as she was doing before.

Nice video. Can you do one on 15 year old Miles Russel. He got a sponsors invite to the Rocket mortgage.

Even the LPGA tour has become a power game and that is not Lydia’s strength. Add that to not putting as well as when she was a “kid” and you have an average LPGA player. Still love to watch her play though.

She went backwards,when her father thought he knew better,buggered everything up with her connection to her Kiwi coach,got her one he thought was better,turned out a failure,changed caddy,same result,bad failure,,need to get back to NZ,get back with Guy,and tell her father to naff off

the thing about all top sports people the all eventually fall or bow out.They burn out a lot .the concentration energy motivation will power all decreases especially when there are new outside influences.whether it is health mental and physical ,personal,family .It all obviously matters.i believe with lydia this is the case as well.,im no guru but if she once and a while takes a 2 mth break from competing she will get that winning formula back in place.Top sports people burn out thats all there is to it.

Is that when she went to Leadbetter, how many people went to him and collapsed. Better her parents than him

She changed her swing coach, her swing today is not the same when she first joined the LPGA.

She got married ... and not only fell off the leaderboards ... but starting missing cuts

I really love watching Lydia play. Over the years I noticed that she got away from what was working for her. I understand changing equipment for the better, but PXG was not the clubs for her and Leadbetter shouldnt have changed her swing. I also believe the pressure from her parents was enormous. Something else I've observed is, golfers who had been on top of their game and they got married, their game suffers. I'm happy for her, but marriage takes away from your routine. You dont spend the same amount of time focusing on your craft.

First of all she can’t keep a good caddy, she gets a new one every year lately. Secondly since she recently got married she has may distraction’s including moving to San Francisco which combined may be effective ability to practice daily. At this time I question her ability to win again.

It's completely a mental thing for Lydia. Look at the images and footage of her as a free wheeling teenager and she is laughing and smiling. Then for some reason, known only to her and her team, she flips to rarely, if ever smiling on course. Even her wins and top of the leaderboard performances don't draw a smile. Smile at the world, and the world smiles back. Same advice for Lexi, but that's wasted advice now that she's retiring. I'm a diehard fan of Lydia and Minjee. Minjee at least has The Chef to keep her smiling.

Changing your swing is golf career suicide. --Spieth

how do people like Leadbetter become these golf geniuses if they the were not phenomenal golfers at one point. I don't get it. They think they know. I have heard of others had their swing ruined after going to him. I had a PGA certified coach ruin my driver swing after I went for lessons with irons and two days later played a round and my driver swing was destroyed and I could not figure out what happened. Some wrist nonsense I was showed to help with my irons ended up screwing up my driver off the tee. And my irons still sucked. I think I finally figured out what happened and am in the middle of correcting now. It took years to get things in right direction. Lydia can get back to old form. I pray she ends her career like she started it.... On fire!!

Once married, priorities change, thats the reality of life.

Just like Brittney Spears explained in The Woman in Me, why doesn't she get to make her own decisions?

One more win and Lydia Ko is in the LPGA Hall of Fame. Lydia has stated she will retire at 30. She's 27 now. I think not getting that win might keep her going a year or two past 30 to try and get it. Regardless of getting that final win, for the Hall of Fame, I believe she will retire in her early 30s.

The sad thing is, that's exactly what Korean parents do to all their kids. From the minute a kid is born they are told to conform, conform, conform and obey, obey and obey some more. People always say that Asian families are so great it's not. It's an absolute nightmare for the kids because of their parents and a nightmare for the parents because of their sociality.

Golf is hard on so many levels. Ko is like a child actor/ singer. The pressure must be suffocating.

There is no doubt that Lydia will fire her swing coach and caddy.....again. I lost track of how many times she has done that. Everybody is to blame for her bad play, it's never her fault. What a useless person.

This parental abusive dominance is a common thread in women’s golf. Leadbetter was also a creepy coach for these girls. They got unfortunately brainwashed.

No matter what anyone may say, the one thing sure of is Lydia is a world-class professional and is absolutely the most georgeous female athletes on the planet 🤩😍😍😍😍😇❤

none it's just the new generation of golf players showed up in golf course who can hit further and more accurate.

She needs to regain her confidence!

It's a shame that parents control there children instead of instead of letting them grow and make to make her own cho

You can find your swing gets in a hole without any coaching. Change creeps in. A good coach will help you avoid those mistakes without overpowering you with something new. Also mental stuff like Spieth's 16th at the Masters makes you hate the game. Tiger losing his edge. Norman was fighting a pull in his famous collapse to Nick at the Masters. He pushed his iron into 18 to counteract a pull shot. We're only human. No I think a coach can be great for spotting alignment issues and things like that.

Why go to a coach who cant shoot better than you wake up

Sounds familiar, Michelle Wie.

Married life has too many holes.

Nothing is wrong. She grew up. She got married She is not as hungry as before. And also , she got obsessed with her looks.

Patents should be left to work with their children short of abuse(mental or physical). I've witnessed abuse with tennis parents It's not just verbal abuse which is more negative than physical but both do work against the child coming from parents. From a coach outside of parents;the child can recover but coming from parents, there are lasting effects through adulthood.

When you married into a very rich family, circled around with rich, famous & powerful people, that is what happened.

She should expect to win whenever she tees it up.

Lidia Ko clapped after switched equipment from Callaway to PXG that's all she wrote

LK is still one of the best but LISTEN to your parents! They are hard on you because they been through worst things to sacrifice for your chance to succeed. Only your parents have your interest... REMEMBER THAT! Your parents will work for you for free. Can you say that to your supposedly coach?

If it ain’t broke, leave it alone.

Who wrote this.

W0W!

if Lydia didn't go PXG, maybe more won.

She got married

This is what you get with tiger parenting. Sure you might achieve remarkable success at a very young age but eventually being micromanaged in every aspect of one's life isn't healthy.

Don't get on Lydia she we'll be made a Dame in NZ from the king of England

Leave "Britney" alone!

Screw all these coaches talking her parents disparagingly. The parents, who raised young prodigies. Screw Leadbetter, Harmon, Scott and all. They ruined Tiger’s swings as well. Leave the parents alone suckers.

She's still great what the hell are you talking about

Infighting with DL and her parents pushed LK to missed aspects of her childhood. Being self conscious about her appearance, she got plastic surgery and bit by the celebrity bug, like Michelle Wei. By that point she lost all interest in golf. She won more tournaments than was expected and the novelty wore off. She's a lost soul.

Yes 1 point away from the hall of fame what the heck happened to her ...

to much to soon

Leadbetter. No she is doing fine

Interesting history of Lydia's career. The rest is rubbish, she doesn't work with Leadbetter any more. She got married and has a different home life than this nonsence portrays

Seems a common theme , get big name coach ,focus on mechanics and ruin natural skill.

I hate myself for clicking on this drivel. Won't do it again.

Lydia Ko is a very pretty successful golfer . I found this to be a very disparaging video.

Cynics would argue that now Lydia has perfected her American accent she can now turn her attention to polishing her golf game. Certainly nothing left of her Kiwi image. Can't even remember the last time she set foot here. NZers have always enjoyed Lydia's successes - she has won Olympic medals for NZ after all. But I don't think most of the time she has ever really captured the hearts of Kiwi sports fans despite the best attempts of local sports broadcasters to convince us otherwise. I think the truth is that after spending years bashing balls into holes in the ground she's just bored stiff, and would rather have a normal life and be a regular girl for once. Don't blame her. Through my own connections I know exactly how the Asian family dynamic can work. You don't have to be pressured to respect your parents and do as they wish. No, it's in your DNA......

No such thing as over-bearing parents.. When it was those same loving parents who brought her to where she got.. Same LAME excuse.. The sport is rigged...

Her parents used her as a money making machine

when you have lots of money and marry woman. Life is not the same........

this guy doesn't understand the different culture

Pointless waste of time vid.

She is just out of focus in golf. 😂 we know how easy that the golf can slip away from us.

HOW COULD YOU DECIDE FOR YOURSELF IF YOU ARE ONLY A MINOR ESPECIALLY FROM AN ASIAN FAMILY!?!?!?!