Lydia Ko Finally Wins Olympic Gold Catapulting Into the LPGA Hall of Fame

Gold medalist, Lydia Ko of Team New Zealand celebrates on the podium during the Women's Individual Stroke Play Medal Ceremony on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Paris on August 10, 2024. Andrew Redington/Getty Images

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France—Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection on Saturday with the most valuable of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at Le Golf National as her closest pursuers all collapsed, and then had to hang on until the very end.