Lydia Ko wins gold, Henderson T13...Olympic Golf Women's Competition... final results

Paris 2024 Olympic Games : Women's Golf Competition IGFGolf.org

Despite a double bogey 6 at the 13th when her approach found the water Lydia Ko steadied herself, and made crucial pars coming in then finished in style with a birdie 4 at the par5 18th to win the Gold medal with scores of  72 67 68 71 -10

New Zealand's gold medallist Lydia Ko, middle, Germany's silver medallist Esther Henseleit, left, and China's bronze medallist Lin Xiyu pose with their Olympic women's golf medals. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)

25 year old German Esther Henseleit who resides in Scottsdale, put the pressure on the soon to be Hall of Fame Kiwi with a closing -6 66 to get to -8 for Silver and Chinese Xiyu Lin was just steady enough to win Bronze 71 70 71 69 -7.

Gold gave her the point she needed (27th) in her glittering career to enter the Hall.

Playing with Ko, Swiss Morgane Metraux who was tied for the 54 hole lead slipped to a disappointing +7 79 T18,  while American rookie Rose Zhang couldn't follow up her Friday -5 67 struggled to +2 74 T8. 

Ko now has won all 3 Olympic medals,, Silver in 2016 in Rio, Bronze in Tokyo 2021, now Gold in Paris..

Canada's Brooke Henderson played well, not great, T13 74 73 67 71 -3 in her 3rd Olympics while her partner in all of them Alena Sharp T42 71 76 77 73 +9. 

After setting Paris alight with her opening -7 65, the low score of the week, French star Celine Boutier couldn't keep up the pace finishing T18 65 76 71 74 -2.

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Bryan Angus