{"id":21185,"date":"2024-08-15T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lydia-ko-olympic-champion-relishes-womens-scottish-open-return\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:48:05","slug":"lydia-ko-olympic-champion-relishes-womens-scottish-open-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lydia-ko-olympic-champion-relishes-womens-scottish-open-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Ko: Olympic champion relishes Women&#8217;s Scottish Open return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ko wanted to play the Scottish Open to prepare her for links golf before next week&#8217;s major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just wanted to kind of stick to my schedule and I think it&#8217;s a good thing, especially kind of playing into something as big as The Open,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I always enjoy playing links and we don&#8217;t really get to play these type of golf courses very much in the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Lilia Vu, the highest-ranked player in the field, was delighted with &#8220;really beautiful&#8221; weather that greeted Wednesday&#8217;s pro-am but realises that is unlikely to be the case for all four rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think my goal this week is just to be adaptable to the weather, whatever it is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I know some weather is going to be coming in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champion Celine Boutier, who finished 18th at the Olympics, views the changeable weather as just &#8220;part of the experience of Scottish courses&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very nice to be coming back here &#8211; a lot of good memories here,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Scottish number one Gemma Dryburgh, winning her home tournament is a &#8220;dream of mine&#8221; as she looks to emulate compatriot Bob MacIntyre&#8217;s victory in a world-class field at this year&#8217;s men\u2019s Scottish Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Watching Bob win at Renaissance was so inspirational,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I sent him a message and just said how proud we are of him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just amazing to see what he&#8217;s done the last year or so &#8211; well, few years, actually. It would be great to kind to follow in his footsteps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cz6x1ny21n4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ko wanted to play the Scottish Open to prepare her for links golf before next week&#8217;s major. &#8220;I just wanted to kind of stick to my schedule and I think it&#8217;s a good thing, especially kind of playing into something as big as The Open,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I always enjoy playing links and we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21187,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions\/21187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}