Lydia `Go` stopped by branch?

Lydia Ko’s second shot on the par-4 14th flew past the green and ended up being stuck in the top of a pine tree. Her caddie Jason Hamilton went up the tree to fetch a ball to no avail. In the end, unplayable was declared, which resulted in triple bogey.

The world No. 1 golfer Lydia Ko (aged 18, New Zealand) is in danger of ending her record of never missing a cut at Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) because of an interrupting tree branch.

At the LPGA tour’s North Texas Shootout- First Round held in Las Colinas Golf Club, she made two birdies, one bogey, one double bogey and one triple bogey, finishing with a 4-over 75. Tied for 117th in the 144-player field, she is in danger of being eliminated from the preliminary if failed to pull the ranking up at the second round.

From 2012 when she was an amateur player to Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic last week, Ko passed all the cuts in 62 LPGA that she played. “I would never have imagined for it to be stuck up there. You just get those days where things that you least expect happen,” said Ko.

Prior to the tournament, Ko said that “I will donate my earning to the earthquake relief effort in Nepal,” but she will be given nothing if she fails to pass the cut.