Teen golf wonder Lydia Ko happy to be an 'icon' at 17

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New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko on Wednesday said she was comfortable in the role of a female sporting icon after becoming golf's youngest ever world number one. Seventeen-year-old Ko, who smashed Tiger Woods' record of reaching the top ranking when he was 21, said comments from aspiring golfers drove her to become a better player. She was speaking just after the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews admitted its first female members, a breakthrough after 260 years of men-only membership. Britain's Princess Anne and retired greats Laura Davies and Annika Sorenstam were among the first seven women to join Scotland's R&A, known as the "home of golf".

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