New Zealand's teenage golfer Lydia Ko will seek her third consecutive LPGA Canadian Women's Open title when she tees off in London, Ontario on Friday.
Success for the 17-year-old would result in her joining Meg Mallon and Pat Bradley as three-time winners.
Lydia Ko at the 2014 LPGA Championship in New York. Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Ko was an amateur when she won in 2012 at age 15 and last year when she took the title in Edmonton.
But world number three Ko has already won twice this year on the LPGA Tour in her first professional season, taking the Swinging Skirts Classic and Marathon Classic.
She says victory the first year it kind of came on as a surprise and the next year it was kind of the same situation.
Ko says she's excited for this week, but she's not going to go out there and go, 'OK, I really need to win this, because she just wants to play the best she can.
2013 Canadian Open champion Lydia Ko Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Ko comes off a third-place finish at last week's LPGA Championship, her second-best major finish.
She says she's playing pretty consistently well and is pretty pleased with how everything is going.
Ko says obviously it would be great to do a three-peat, but you just never know because the world's best are all here playing in this field.
The field includes world number two Park In-Bee, the South Korean star who captured her fifth major title at last week's LPGA Championship and seeks her third title of the season this week.
The field features 18 of the world top 20, although a notable absentee is US Women's Open champion Michelle Wie, sidelined by a finger injury. She won the Canadian Women's Open title in 2010.
