The Emergency 9 is our weekly segment featuring 9 fun questions that allow our listeners to get to know that week’s guest a little bit better. Up next: Lydia Ko.
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar, 2-time Major winner Lydia Ko joins Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz for an exclusive interview.
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Let’s get to the N Lydia this is fun nine fun questions to get to know you just a little better and we ask this to everyone you can be anybody else for a day anyone in the history of time you get to walk in their shoes for a day who would it
Be oh anybody in the hisory wow that’s I would want to be my mom okay that’s a first she like she pretty much does everything um for me she sacrificed a lot and put in a lot of time like for me in my career um you know apart from
Literally hitting the golf ball like she does everything so um I think I would love to just be in this in her shoes and actually like kind of understand the things that I’ve like taken for granted as just being the daughter and um understand like what it’s like like just
Being in her shoes and having to deal with me beautiful love that first time answer we’ve had mom as an answer on here all right I like that um I referenc to Grant thoron earlier with Jason day which you guys want but he does have a
New look since the last time you two played together give us a breakdown the Lydia Co breakdown of Jason Day’s new sense of fashion I think he looks younger he looks uh younger obviously he’s worn like kind of the um like athlete Weare the last uh few years um with multiple
Different companies so it’s definitely a different look but I think he looks fashionable and I think we’ve all seen how much golf fashion has changed over the years um so it’s really cool that he’s you know um rocking that look and I mean I’m pretty sure Jason can pull off
Like most things he lost the beard too there’s I don’t recommend that little younger Colts about do it too looks really young yeah yeah little baby face under there we forgotten about all right next one best nickname anyone has ever given you uh shrimp who gave you
Shrimp um I well that was actually from my teammates um in uh at my province in New Zealand um we’re under uh the North Harbor and we would go to into provincials and all that and I was the youngest one and the smallest one so uh
They called me uh shrimp and then as I got like a little bigger they said maybe we need like call you King prawn or something King prawn King prawn I heard Sean Foley called you baby goat yes yeah um I don’t know if I deserve that but Sean has always you
Know been so supportive and and sweet and he’ll still like text me that occasionally um so very honored especially from you know somebody like him that’s a good one I like baby goat baby goat’s good baby goat’s good especially coming from Sean um all right Lydia according to virtually every human
We’ve ever spoken to about you you are the nicest human in the history of the world but if you had to name one bad thing about you or your worst personality trait what would you say it is me I don’t think I’m not that nice I
I can name so many ladies on tour that it’s like way nicer than me I mean like look at Brooke Henderson she’s like a walking Angel um uh me I I can name like a lot of things bad about myself um I think I
Have a a short temper and um I kind of take word for word when somebody is like saying like something negative about me so yeah I’m not the most like open minded the heart person we have everyone around you fooled then there’s nothing there’s nothing said anything different all right next
One you won the Canadian open on the LPGA Tour twice as an amiter you would have won 300 Grand each time but instead it went to the person that finished second so I want to know who gave you the better thank you gift MB park or Karen ier um neither oh bad form
Ladies neither um but I actually didn’t play with uh I didn’t play with neither one of them I think in um the final round of both of those championships um and obviously I’m just literally a 15 16 year old kid like let’s go there uh you know just to get the experience of
Playing alongside these ladies but after I’ve been on tour um M’s just M’s been great I’ve played her uh Team event that she um held in Korea and Karine and and her husband and her family are are great too so I’ve I’ve got um no complaints
But I mean it’s kind of like I don’t know who exactly came second to Nick Dunlap but like I don’t know if they he that player would have also done something it’s just it’s a it’s a unusual situation well they should you made them over 100 50 Grand more and
Christian bazen hoo actually finished second to Nick Dunlap so I’m going to make sure he takes care of Nick for that because that was 1.5 Mill yeah that’s a watch or something yeah you gotta get something they they’re probably not going to give it to you now given the
Trajectory that you’ve been on but I feel like something was warranted at the time uh all right next one from me Lydia have you ever seen an athlete give a member of the media the interview Yips the way you did with Jerry fultz back in 2022 um no and honestly I didn’t think
It would like startle him like that and um it was I mean I don’t know like you know as an athlete I I think you never want to be like shown as you’re injured like if you’re actually not injured like if you’re um I think just being
Transparent is like the best way to go and I wasn’t injured and I just needed some stretching and um you know some you know adjustments because of that time of the month and I honestly think like that is what every female athlete has to deal
With and um you know some it hits people like to like I guess different intensities but to me like it got me and I just was being honest and I honestly didn’t think it would um catching that off guard uh and I felt bad to Jerry because he’s you know he’s great he’s
Just a you a great person and awesome at what he does and I was like oh I was just telling the truth Jerry is one of the best he is I mean I’ve never seen him speechless before that was an awesome moment yeah honesty that’s all
We asked for you got it jar it was fantastic um all right next one we’ve seen several ladies te it up on the PGA tour Lexi Thompson recently did it in Vegas if you could pick one PGA Tour event to te it up in which one would it be oh
Um I would have said uh the CJ cup originally if it was in Korea um because when it was played there it was actually played in JJ Island um which is where my family my parents are from so it would have literally been like a home Hometown
Like event um in front of the Korean golf bands which we all know you know Koreans love golf and um I think that would have been probably the coolest thing but I I know for a fact that um I I wouldn’t probably very very highly
Likely not uh make it to the weekend but it’ just be an awesome experience just even te it up so that’s something you would entertain if the opportunity was there uh probably not but I am actually playing uh the pr at the Genesis Invitational in a couple
Weeks and um I am nervous for that just even for the prom and I am excited and kind of nervous uh what Pro I’m gonna be paired out with oh that’s awesome and it’s Riviera one of the best golf courses in the world you’ll love it yeah
I’ve I’ve never been there and I’m super excited to to go and I was hoping like maybe I can play with like Ben or Jason like somebody that I know but like whoever it is uh you know I’m excited to be able to like see and actually watch
And learn as well there is a chance this tiger fella might be playing that’d be pretty fun except TT’s off at like 6:30 in the prams each morning yeah I think I’d be too nervous for that um I I might uh I actually think I might have to take something for my
Nerves before teeing it up if I was playing with him that’s awesome yep that’s a big big arena there all right my last one Lydia we used to ask this to everyone but I’m bringing it back in your honor let’s say there’s a movie being made about the life of Lydia Co
What actress would you like to play you oh wow Um I really like the Korean American um actress and Grace Anatomy Sandra o yeah yeah I know what you’re talking about I don’t know the last like other series as well and just because I’m obviously Korean descent and like that’s her Roots as well I think that
Would be you know really cool for somebody like her to play me and my my just uh very everyday life that’s awesome you can work on that when you go out to LA yeah boom all right last one you mentioned you live in Orlando at Lake Nona do you think the people that
You bought the house from gave you such a good deal because they wanted to get the hell away from a person that lives right down the road from you named Frank Nao you know um I when I actually first moved I did realize that Franken Selena we’re literally three houses down and um
I our street is awesome you know we have Australian neighbors and then obviously Frank uh who who’s from New Zealand so you know I’m glad that they sold um this house to us and uh I said our street is the best Street in Lake Nona so I’m uh
Accompanied by Legends okay see this is I I did not want this to go this way at all I was want you to hate all over Frank Nao what kind of neighbor is Frank uh you know I’ve actually never seen him on a golf course and I’ve only
Seen him on a tennis court um you know CU I’ll go work out or I played some tennis uh during Co and he plays a lot of tennis but um he’s they’re great they invited me over and I had dinner at their place and it’s just awesome that
You know there’s like a kiwi living on the same street in Orlando which is literally one of the furthest cities from New Zealand uh you know within the United States he is he’s not that big a deal in New Zealand is he he is just say
No just say no we’ll clip this this he is um you know golf is like growing a lot in New Zealand and I think Co was actually one of the peak times where it did like keep developing and like just the general amount of membership uh
Increased as well and um but before then there weren’t really like that many like names uh especially in golf because New Zealand is more known for like rugby and cricket and netball and and other like water sports or Athletics um but Frank is definitely a name that we all know uh
And I’m I I love that he’s my neighbor even though like I might see him more often on TV than actually in real life that’s awesome
