Ko is back (even if she never really left us)

PLUS: Rafa stakes claim to be the 🐐; the Super Smash finals with chip-shot sixes.

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Lydia Ko is one of the most fascinating personalities in New Zealand sport.

She’s also a long way from finished. There should be nothing revelatory in that pithy statement yet rewind a couple of years and there was genuine concern that Ko’s days at the sharp end of tournaments were over.

In the four years from 2017 to 2020 she won a single LPG…