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Jin Young Ko, who has won six of her last 10 LPGA Tour starts, continued setting records on Friday at the JTBC Classic presented by Barbasol. Ko fired a 1-under ...

Knight agreed on the ball-striking front, comparing Ko to one of the all-time greats. “The stats are very impressive,” Stacy Lewis said on Friday in Carlsbad. “She’s probably the best ball striker we’ve seen in a really long time. “I don’t think people realize how hard it is when you take time off and then come right back into it and keep doing what you’re doing. On three different continents, in all kinds of weather, over two different seasons in close to six months’ time, Ko has birdied almost one out of every three holes she’s played. But this was the first time in 17 rounds going back to October 18 that Ko has put up a number that did not begin with a 6. In that stretch, she has made birdie on just under 30% of the holes she’s played.